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In reply to the discussion: The unspoken issue at the center of prostitution is causation [View all]The Magistrate
(95,241 posts)There is a great deal of pornography which deals with extreme pain inflicted on males, a great deal which focuses of elaborate costumes; there is pornography which focuses on particular body parts or shapes, and much else, and there is more of all of it. There are tremendous quanties of porn in circulation, very profitably for the circulators, which does not much differ from Playboy centerfolds fifty years ago. And the 'niche' and 'boutique' interests catered to are ancient, and can be found down through the history of human art and literature and religious and social practices. They are not new, they are not created de novo today. They are expressed more openly, perhaps, by those who have always held them. The customer may be emboldened to want, nay demand from producers, something that fits more exactly what has always been desired, seeing no reason to have something that just suggests a thing, but to see the thing itself, or at least a convincing representation of it.