Nobody Knows What Porn Is Anymore – By Magdalene Taylor (Vice) / Jan 5, 2024
Porn has so saturated our culture that we’re finding it in places where it’s not.
Porn has never been easy to define with words. We’ve long relied upon “know it when you see it,” or the abductive reasoning of the duck test: If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it’s probably a duck. This made sense for thousands of years, whether the medium was cave drawings or HD video of people fucking. But today, the distinction between porn and not-porn doesn’t feel quite so obvious. Particularly with social media posts that don’t feature outright nudity or sex, many viewers seem to be missing the fact that an obvious sexual narrative is at play. To others, posts that simply feature an attractive woman doing something banal are seen to be clearly pornographic. Altogether, there is a contemporary inability to distinguish porn from anything else, and it proves just how deeply embedded porn is in our daily lives.
brown butter caramel cake is the messiest thing i’ve made thus far pic.twitter.com/urfHoGWv66
— Isabella Maria DeLuca (@IsabellaMDeLuca) October 24, 2023
In October, right-wing Internet personality Isabella Marie DeLuca shared a video of herself baking a brown butter caramel cake. She made the video in the style of many cooking TikToks, using her front-facing camera placed to capture her head and torso as well as her mixing bowls and ingredients on the counter in front of her. She wore a fitted gray crewneck T-shirt and gold cross necklace. Deluca is a beautiful, large-breasted woman, and the video makes that naturally apparent. For some reason, however, the video went viral again this weekend with the common accusation that the video was pornographic. “Holy cow lady, get yourself an apron… It will preserve the spectacle of those giant ta tas for your husband,” @Rach4Patriarchy, another conservative Internet personality, quote-tweeted. “Drop your OF link for the simps while you’re at it e-girl,” @tomhennesy69 replied.
CONTINUE > https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kmjz/porn-brain-social-media
