Works for me now -- dunno quite what was up, other than LJ's wonkiness, but I disabled Rich Text, deleted a load of random LJ-ish HTML, resaved, and seem to have sorted it.
Workin' for me. (The first one is, perhaps not surprisingly NFSW, but given the URL is scrambled by Ow.ly, and could easily be a thought piece from The Guardian you might want to warn unsuspecting viewers.
The pro-porn article doesn't say anything about it improving one's own body image or self-esteem, though - just that it made people more positive in their interactions with others.
Yeah -- I don't think it'd necessarily, inherently improve body image or self-esteem, though IMO porn does provide something of an antidote to the airbrushed, idealised, uber-skinny young women seen in the mass media, in that it presents women of a variety of shapes, sizes, & ages.
Me neither, although it is *different*, and tends to emphasise (at least) a more feminine, voluptuous shape. Plus, again, there's greater variety in porn -- or maybe it depends on what porn one looks at.
IMO the second article is already pretty much describing reality especially with the rise of the whole metrosexual thing. Men are either represented in advertising as these perfect adonai or as bumbling fools.
Yeah, the thing about mainstream porn is that it's all for men. There isn't any for women out there. There's a few that purport to be for women but they're generally much softer core and about thirty years out of date in the type of men depicted. Generally they only show the musclebound Chippendale type and I don't know ANYBODY who ACTUALLY finds that attractive.
I've been to the FPAs twice and they're damn good fun. Picked up some tasty dyke porn too. If I'd known you didn't know about them, I would have dragged you along. They used to be held at the Gladstone, but the last time the room was so packed that there was barely even standing room.
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I've been to the FPAs twice and they're damn good fun. Picked up some tasty dyke porn too. If I'd known you didn't know about them, I would have dragged you along. They used to be held at the Gladstone, but the last time the room was so packed that there was barely even standing room.
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