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  Pornography and the Internet...
Before I begin, this is a rant, and primarily, it's a rant about how people suck. I also seem to have a story bugging me to be written about similar stuff, drawing analogies from a bunch of bad experiences in my life. I think it's going to be entitled "october: the crappiest month of the year", but I could be wrong.
Anyway, this is my rant, starting now.

I really truly don't get what people (look, not sexist) see in pornography. I just don't get it.
My brother has a fairly impressive collection, and I looked through it once, to see what the fuss was all about, and I didn't get it.
But hey, that's okay. Plenty of people like it, and I'm sure better distribution of porn is one of the driving factors behind faster internet connections. I fear it may have a link to why we have a cable modem in this house, but I don't really want to think about it.

Anyway, I’m open minded enough to admit that maybe, just maybe, porn has a place in society, if only to keep the menfolk (and some of the womenfolk) out of trouble. I’m sure it makes them feel a lot better about a lot of stuff.
So even though I don’t like the stuff, I’m willing to admit that maybe, just maybe, other people can and do enjoy porn and whatever feelings it allows them to indulge in, primarily lust.

But, and there’s always a but, I don’t want to know about your filthy habits. If you leave your porn on the floor, I will most likely take it outside and set fire to it, if you leave it on the shared computer I will infect it with a virus. Because frankly, my dear, I don’t want to know what you’ve been doing in your spare time.
I’ve had a bit of experience with this. I never sit on the chair in my father’s ‘study’, because frankly I don’t know what goes on in there at night when he locks the door and sits on the computer until 3am. Actually, I have a fair idea, because when I typed “www.s” as a prelude to “www.sailorcoruscant.com” here a few minutes ago, I found that “www.sweetsweetloving.ne” and “www.sexformeinmyhead.com” appear in the list of suggested conclusions to my surfing experience. Not nice!

Okay, so let’s take this a step further and point out a few things.

What happens when said person’s partner finds out about it? What do they think?
Imagine for yourself, but if you can’t, I’ve compiled a list of suggestions:
Firstly, I would suggest that said partner will immediately start wondering about what comparisons have been made between themselves and various porn stars. Namely, they’ll start angsting about things such as the basics, like figure and beauty or lack thereof, followed by angsting about the personality, eg how a porn image is always beautiful and alluring and always wants it. Real people aren’t, and some of us have made conscious choices not to indulge in “it”, but imagine how your partner would feel if they are suddenly confronted by the thought that you want someone more eager to please you any time you want to. Inadequate springs to mind.
Then a whole bunch of other ideas present themselves. How about the classic, “you’re thinking of someone else when you’re with me?” That one’s always good for the breaking of someone’s heart. I mean, if your partner is looking at porn while you’re not around, who’s to say they aren’t imagining themselves with someone out of pornography while they’re with you?

I could say a bunch of other things, but I think you get the idea. You can really mess someone up by making a simple mistake.

So, okay. You’re allowed to look at porn in your own time while I’m not around. I’ll even accept that you do that. But I don’t want to know about it.

Please:
Delete your temporary internet files
Remove the entries from your history
Turn off auto-complete web addresses.

Because although you can do what you like on your own damn computer, the rest of us don’t want to think about it.

This rant has been brought to you by Catherine in the middle of the night on a shared computer.

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