Blogging As Porn or I like To Watch (And Read!)

Blogging is kind of pornographic; a combination of words and imagery that while not so blatantly sexual as a video, opens the door to fantasy to a wide audience of men and women. Blogging is as deceptive in what it depicts and as honest in what it depicts as pornography; the viewer is free to interpret it as they wish. The peddling of one's persona via blogging is, I suppose, pornographic in a sense as per these definitions, as many blogs incorporate at least one of them:

1. Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.
2. The presentation or production of this material.
3. Lurid or sensational material.

What is it about people using themselves, portraying themselves as they wish that makes other people so angry? Angry enough that they will comment vocally and rudely as though the writer has caused them personal harm? Is this strictly the domain of the female? Men do seem less likely to use words and social standing (virgin vs. whore, etc.) as means of tearing someone else down.

Let me rephrase that. Men do not tend to use this tactic against other men. Both men and women will use this tactic against women. Passive female sexuality (the model, the actress) is deemed relatively acceptable, I guess because the sexuality is not explicitly accepted by the woman, but is presented in the context of selling something or presenting a story and hey, if you get turned on nobody said that was supposed to happen! I guess that is where coy behaviour in women originates, with this idea that sexuality is something to be coerced out of a woman, not something that is innately there.

Are you a whore? A slut? A skank? A bitch? Trashy? Think about how these terms actually mean so little in reality in regards to the person they are used to describe, yet tell so much about the mind of the person who uses them.

In terms of blogging, I suppose part of what angers some people is it's sheer accessibility and the fact that it is relatively anonymous. It gives people the courage to put themselves out there, and we as humans (and especially as women) are not supposed to do that, or even want to, really.