While waiting for my daughter at the dentist’s office this morning, I started leafing through a recent issue of O Magazine. My mind was on something else the whole time and for the life of me, I cannot now remember any of the articles in the magazine, save for one. This particular article was entitled “What’s Your Porn?” and while I admit not really reading beyond the provocative title, that question gave me something to think about during the wait.
Reading the word “porn,” my mind instantly went back to that time in Constitutional Law 2 when we were studying obscenity and the various tests for it. Of all those tests, the one test I remember most clearly now, many many years since our freshman year in law school, is...the Limp Dick standard. With a name like that (courtesy of Justice Brennan’s law clerks), what student would forget?
Anyway, after this brief distraction, my mind went back to the O magazine article. The question “What’s Your Porn” obviously wasn’t referring to actual pornography. It refers to images or texts 1) deliberately presented in an almost erotic way (the way food is presented or “objectified” sometimes, earning the label food porn) and 2) which elicit a similar audience response as pornography.
In other words, the writers want to know, what do you find so appealing that it sends you feverishly searching - online or otherwise - for more?
I know what my classmates’ porn is:
- For blogger fullmeasure, it’s kitchenware, specifically copper and cast iron cookware.
- It’s vintage jewelry that sends another classmate, the pinkprincessinparis, over the edge.
- MTK is excited by good bargains or deals.
- PMA's porn is antiques.
- As for me, my porn varies.
Sometimes it’s dinnerware...
Sometimes it’s table linens.
Always, however, it has something to do with what I like on the table. [Wait, why does that last sentence sound obscene?]
And what about you, dear readers, "What is YOUR porn?"
[KSP]
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