# Leave Porn Alone! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 12, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-porn-alone/418912 "2007-09-12T15:26:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-porn-alone/418912/21 "2007-09-12T19:13:57Z")
The first time I heard this usage it made sense, it was in reference to some footage of an Anti-Globalisation protest. One guy had made a coherent documentary telling the story of I think it was the Genoa 2000 protests, another guy had just stitched together a load of footage of the protestors rioting and the police responding with force. This made an impression but as a friend pointed out it was “riot porn”, just violence that stimulates in some way _sans_ context, reason, or real political point. I also like poverty porn for the glossy pictures of starving Africans that you see in the lifestyle sections of “socially aware” newspapers, ie The Guardian and Sunday Times UK. I think the context is important, they’re selling you new fondue sets while you look at pictures of children dying. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-porn-alone/418912/22 "2007-09-12T19:17:05Z")
Generation Porn ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-porn-alone/418912/23 "2007-09-12T19:27:37Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Turbo-style. [/QUOTE] X-Treme. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-porn-alone/418912/24 "2007-09-12T19:28:26Z")
[QUOTE=ASAKMOTSD] Sorry - Kitty Porn is illegal… 😉 [/QUOTE] But Pussy Porn is redundant! ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-porn-alone/418912/25 "2007-09-12T19:29:06Z")
This is all just another stepping stone into getting hardcore porn into general society. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-porn-alone/418912/26 "2007-09-12T19:50:37Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] X-Treme. [/QUOTE] With an attitude! I actually think “torture porn” is pretty apt. That’s the only one I’ve heard much. But I also like **An Gadaí’s** description of “riot porn” and “poverty porn”. I think [QUOTE=An Gadaí] …that stimulates in some way sans context… [/QUOTE] is well said. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-porn-alone/418912/27 "2007-09-12T19:51:36Z")
[QUOTE=Ellef] Aha, I get it. No objection to me looking at seed catalogues with pictures of _BIG_ tomatoes, then? 😛 [/QUOTE] Here ya go. [DSCN0202 | oliver.faltz | Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/11340931@N04/1098094708/)🆒 Safe for work, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Tenebras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@Tenebras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenebras)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-porn-alone/418912/28 "2007-09-12T19:54:12Z")
Whew. And here I thought this was a thread about having to shave my palms. I’ll be over here um… I’ll be over here if you need me. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-porn-alone/418912/29 "2007-09-12T20:11:46Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] Yes but those terms seem to, if anything, uplift porn. People like kittens. It is when people don’t like something and they add the Porn suffix that I’m trying to stop. [/QUOTE] So you’re all right with [Furniture Porn](http://www.furnitureporn.com/warning.html)? 🙂 Oh, and here’s another one - my brother refers to some television programmes as “weather porn”, meaning the programmes that are there so one can sit cosily at home in a good safe house with tea and biscuits etc while watching other people have hurricanes and floods and wild stuff like that. If it’s any comfort, my guess is that this type of usage will last only a little time then disappear. [Edited to add - yes, of course that link is very SFW] ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-porn-alone/418912/30 "2007-09-12T20:14:05Z")
Torture-Porn is the one that bothers me the most. To me, it sounds like the people using the term, in reference to a group of new horror movies that show a lot of violence and gore, were definetly trying to paint those movies with the broad brush of a ‘porn’ lable. As pornographic material can be censored, let us call this porn so we can say it shouldn’t be made/shown/viewed. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-porn-alone/418912/31 "2007-09-12T20:26:18Z")
Has anyone besides me noticed that gun and ammo magazines share many fetish properties with some of the trashier porn? I don’t mean like Playboy or something glossy like that. I mean something you’d find at some mildly disreptuble convenience store, vaguely behind the counter. Gun-porn. But, yeah – we might be headed toward having to specify “sex-porn”. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-porn-alone/418912/32 "2007-09-12T20:29:45Z")
_All we are saaaying, Is leave porn alone!_ ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-porn-alone/418912/33 "2007-09-12T20:39:17Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] . . . Athesists calling the bible Jesus Porn? . . . [/QUOTE] That’s not the bible, that’s Guideposts. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-porn-alone/418912/34 "2007-09-12T20:52:47Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] Years ago I started referring to my food magazines and cookbooks, with the oh, so luscious photos of food splayed out in all its glory _drool_, food porn. Eventually I discovered other people do this as well. I will not give up my food porn! [/QUOTE] I am a [pornographer](http://www.flickr.com/photos/tropicalnadia/sets/72057594059947737/) ! ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-porn-alone/418912/35 "2007-09-12T21:49:35Z")
You have the Bible Belt, and you have the Porn Belt. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-porn-alone/418912/36 "2007-09-12T21:50:57Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder] That wasn’t the peel she was trying to get off. [/QUOTE] True dat. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-porn-alone/418912/37 "2007-09-12T22:22:27Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] Torture Porn to describe horror movies you don’t like. [/QUOTE] Actually, “torture porn” refers to a specific trend that many people find objectionable and disturbing. Modern horror movies have become very sadistic lately. Some of them (like, for example, _Saw II_ and _House of 1000 Corpses_) are little more than tableaus of human suffering. Basically, it’s not a scary story, it’s a cruel story. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-porn-alone/418912/38 "2007-09-12T22:53:47Z")
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