The Bermuda Triangle of the Media Matrix
What you are about to read now you will read no place else. It has never been thought or articulated before. It is a triangle that you as the reader and I as the participant are to connect. This sounds very grandiose for a blog but I am nothing if not grandiose.
I can unlock this secret world by highlighting the use of the Speedgraphic (my favorite camera), the meaning of tabloid journalism and its gossip and the most forbidden world of all - our sexuality.
My father Sam was a press photographer for INP for 40 years, and as a war correspondent was on two ships that were torpedoed. He taught me his vocations and I was a press photographer at Boys High from 1950-54, the US Army from 1955 to 56, and had assignments with Jackie Kennedy in Pakistan and Fidel Castro in Cuba for various news organizations. I was a pioneer pornographer when I started Screw in 1968 and have 21 arrests to prove it. I was like Columbus who discovered America.
Gossip
The secret lives of public figures has always been fodder for the appetites of the general public. Although the media paid lip service to self regulation. Just look at how General Eisenhower and his mistress and JFK and his sexual dalliances were concealed at that time.
Photography
The big change in photography began in showing the dead during the Civil War. Then came the photos of assassinations of mobsters in Chicago gang land wars. Photography was the window to the world of things we never saw before. It showed real brutality. The most glaring example of this voyeurism of photography was in 1927 when a Daily News photographer concealed a camera around his ankle and went to the execution of a murderer named Ruth Snider. His photo showed her at the moment of her death. The only moment of equal import is the film of JFK being shot with his skull being split asunder.
The birth of photography was the equivalent of the creation of the internet. They established a delivery system for the taboo and the concealed.
Pornography
Streaming video is like painting the Mona Lisa by the numbers. What was originally innovative and creative is now mindless and cliché. We now have assassination by clit. Our secret life is now on the computer and millions of DVDs. Photography brought us the horror of tragedy. In 1982 Sony brought us the Betamax and X-rated video could now be viewed in our own private homes. No longer mesmerized by memories now wilted by time, porno films gave us a new clarity. Our cocks and pussy are mere puppets to be manipulated by the flesh of sundry fuck films. Our desires and testosterone are now the lubricant for men. And as usual money and stature are the allure for women.
But tanks to Hugh Heffner, Al Goldstein, Larry Flynt, Albert Kinsey, Masters & Johnson, Henry Miller, DH Lawrence, the explicitness of this old violence has been replaced by the joy of sex. Sex replaced gore and violence with blow jobs and pussy eating.
Man doesn’t change, but the secrets of his activities do.
posted by Al Goldstein @ 7:27 PM
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7 Comments:
There is one thing you fail to mention about the evolution of photography. And the morality of porn addiction is beside the point. For what graphic sexuality presented as public entertainment does is replace the concept of family and procreation with the hedonism of instant gratification. You can't get full watching the Food Channel if you're hungry. But you can get off vicariously via visual lust and then bypass the responsibility of spreading your gene pool. This is why from Europe to Russia to Western Rome the caucasian who invented civilization is dying off and not having enough kids while primitive peoples recycle their populations like bunnies. Why else would Bush and his gay NeoCon Zionist redneck cabal plan 9/11 to start the oil war? Hello! The evil white man is dying. And the moral of the story is that it doesn't pay to be too smart. Because great minds get bored too easily, then absorb themselves in wealth and power and are consumed by their own excess, forgeting to replentish their gene pool and dooming their posterity as a result. Indeed, those who have the most lovers and orgasms don't have the most kids. True wealth is to be found in how much flesh and blood you leave behind with your seed, not genetic spilt milk. So I suggest that we use our sperm to impregnate as many of our own as possible to combat the impending Armageddon end days. We may be winning the game of making our lives count by making history and buying, selling and owning the most toys. But Juan and Abdul are beating us in the eternal battle of civilization by breeding like rabbits while we're preoccupied by money, materialism, fame, fortune and media institutionalized selfishness portending an ominous future in which our progeny will be pawns in a new global disorder. Like locusts in a farm, every human animal has his day. Porn, while an ultimate source of free adult expression, is as much population pesticide as it is an art form. Since the elite high minded who appreciate beauty tend to become obsessed by it and small minds just have more sex. And more babies. To win the battle of cock plus pussy equals baby is to win the future. The Chinese pay their own to stop having kids. We must pay ourselves to be fruitful and multiply. To sing the praises of porn is idol worship of inanimate pictures. I'd rather screw more flesh and blood to save the future. And have the Bill Gateses of the world pay for it instead of buying more PCs and HIV vaccine for 3rd world primitives who in the long run will make the reproductively challenged the slaves of the future.
Wow. wow. wow. wow. That WAS quite a rant. Sort of twin rants, yours and Al's. Neither makes all that much sense to me, but give me credit for reading them all the way through. I suspect I will be among the minority who attempts it and completes the task.
Let's start with's Al's rant, since that's the reason we all come here. So, Al, if understand you correctly, you are saying that porn is less erotic, because there is so much of it. And we are becoming desensitized to eroticism, just as we have become desensitized to gory photos and gossip. Is that it? Hard to disagree, but what's your point? Your conclusion "sex is fun thanks to Larry Flynt" is a cheat. Finish your thought. I want to know what you mean.
The more I think about Mr. Rant's rant about Americans needing to breed more, the more nauseated I get. If the 21st century results in Armegeddon, or catastrophic climate change, don't we all really lose, especially our seed? Having a bunch of kids you can't afford stikes me as a bad idea on the face of it. Having lots of sex to distract you from being poor, on the other hand, is an excellent idea. If the 21 century concludes with the planet laden with healthy humans, as it is today, and with American democracy intact, it will be because of brilliant creative thinking, human will, and the triumph of hope over dispair.
al is loving porn and hating it at the same time. he's saying that porn replaced the photos of gore and death with photos of something more pleasant - photos of sex. yet, he's also saying that porn in tandem with streaming video and mass communication, has given us too much of a good thing. it's sucked some life out of sex and left our lives with virtually nothing private - nothing sacred. our entire lives are now peddled at the side show.
ulysses s. rant has got it wrong. one of the most beautiful things in the world is knowing that if man stopped reproducing, he wouldn't exist 120 or so years from now. if the evil white man knew what he was doing, he'd get out of the rat race. the morning after pill would be his god and he'd spare his nonexistent children from this trough of piss we call life. birth is a prison sentence. life toys with our sentience. when a sperm fertilizes an egg it opens a black hole in some other dimension, ripping some pour soul into this life. a joyless prelude to a veil of tears, alcoholism and nursing homes.
ulysses,
the issue is called consequences. some addictions like drugs and alcohol are destructive. but an addiction to getting good grades in school is constructive. it is the same drive. if you have a messy house it means you are not addicted to order but are driven to chaos.
al
mario,
i am turned onto pretty legs and thin ankles and in the last two years i have become a shrimper, which is a foot fetishist. if i see delicate toes with red nail polish i am prepared to suck on the little piggies as foreplay since women seem to love that. but if i were a shoe salesmen i doubt that i would be turned on by a well turned ankle. when i worked in a topless club i stopped looking at the women on stage. her nudity was not unique and i was bored. the same thing happens at dunkin donuts and you stop salivating when you look at all them sugary sweets.
al
fan of al,
i have been masterbating since i was 16 and find the activity completely unsatisfying. so much so that my hand keeps falling asleep.
what i am saying is that in the same way that buffet way tables get to be boring so has your response. learn to get to the point unless you are so much in love with your words and thoughts that you pollute the environment with your verbiage. get a life, some originality and stop belaboring the obvious. if i were married to you i would either blow your brains out or give you rat poison for the joy of silence.
love, al
zen,
read my words of wisdom and whatever i have done, do the opposite.
al
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