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But pornography is distinctly different from striptease and prostitution. Sometimes I think people who produce publishable media tend to overestimate the impact the condition of publishing has in "changing the world" and I don't consider pornography is at all a port for social change. The pornographic image, in my mind, is not an ideal image but is a carnal, imperfect messy image and, therefore, cannot convey those kinds of ideas. It's the confusion of those ideas that is erotic and its abandonment of those concerns beyond getting respective organs to erupt that is pornographic.
There's a world of difference, though, between something previously recorded being played on a screen versus being there in the flesh. In all honest, in the number of times that I have gone to strip clubs, I become timid and disquieted by just simply being within that atmosphere of flesh-money exchange. And it isn't because of any kind of puritan ethic about the sexual body, it's more about the money and how there is a price on everything. Or, rather, it seems to me that the strip club is the place where everything else that exists begins to have a price, the genesis of metaphysical capitalism. It's also how a strip club can be so absolutely intimate while simultaneously rejecting all intimacy that bugs me. Nauseating.
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