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Technically Speaking blogs about new blog called Fleshbot.

"Fleshbot is a new, frequently updated web magazine. It showcases all the porn that digital technology and distribution has made possible. This includes CGI and morphed images, amateur girls, webcam guys, sex blogs, hentai and yaoi, accidental smut, vintage erotica, celebrity candids, and streaming hardcore video." (this should send my google hits sky high!)

Ah the luxuries of technology and the exploitation of women...

It's nothing new that there is an abundance of P o r n on the internet, but this is a new twist and we should have seen it coming - a P o r n Blog. If you look at the stats for the site, Fleshbot is getting and average of 90,035 hits a day (will this go on the A list?) It's relatively tastefully done - no nasty images popping up at you, but I still have issues with p o r n - it is by men and for men, often illustrating men conquering women, men stroking their sizable worth and proving their manliness - it's all about men (and the women who need it, want it, have to have it). It's about power.

I have no problem with two consentual adults (same sex or not) having sex, it's not about that. I have no problem with erotica, which seems to balance the power between the two (or more) adults. There is a difference.

If you check one of the side bars, people are commenting - people like Instapundit and Halley Suitt (who calls this site the 'Instapundit of p o r n').

Wired features an article on the blog: "I think Fleshbot is a good representation of where porn is going," Breslin said. "It's smart, and funny and hip, and I think it makes looking at smut cool instead of trashy." and apparently 'intelligent hipsterslike p o r n'.

There is nothing cool or hip about looking at p o r n and it is still trashy - this sounds like pop porn to me. Let's keep in mind what Brelin says : "Fleshbot is a business; it's not about blogging or people taking back the media."

I am not a prude - really - but the bottom line is that this is not about getting people in touch with their sexuality, or helping communicate their sexuality - it is about money and objectifying women via technology. Check out this blog entry about the social value of p o r n - which would be fine if it were true. I am still thinking that p o r n is getting mixed up with erotica.

posted by Netwoman @ 10:06 AM