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is it possible to have good taste in porn?

do you look down at those plebs who consume studio porn?

do you prefer vintage twinks of questionable age who only agreed to make that video in their neighbor’s basement because it was the 70s and they needed money for their recreational drug use?

do you think more frequently about porn than about sex?
have you read freedom by jonathan franzen?

are you currently working on a series of essays that explores the implications of lacan’s mirror stage re: amateur camsites like chaturbate, cam4, and chatroulette?

do you sometimes seek porn that features ugly people?

have you ever masturbated ironically to porn that features ugly people?

is there such a thing as ugly people?

can porn be beautiful?

is porn more beautiful when the participants are not?

have you ever had a religious experience while watching porn?

have you ever seen jesus in another man’s anus, or the virgin mary hidden in a woman’s inner labia?

have you ever come across porn so excellent you felt the need to thank god and/or the universe for it?

have you ever prayed for good porn?
have you ever said, “please, god, let it be a creampie”?
did you ever pray that mike18 would finally find some attractive actors to have sex with mike?

did you become an atheist because mike18 never found attractive actors to have sex with mike?

have you ever spoken or whispered to the actors in the porn playing on your computer screen?

have you ever spoken or whispered to a pillow?

can porn create sublime aesthetic experiences like great poetry can?

you have wept reading hart crane, but have you ever wept at the sublime beauty of two hot teens doing it?

who is the hamlet of amateur porn?

was twinklight better than twilight or about as good?

why hasn’t moby-dick spawned more pornographic adaptations?

would you watch queequeg and starbuck get it on in the pequod cabin, possibly spilling their semen into one another’s mouth and/or the fishes’ mouths on the open sea?

did you get an erection reading about ahab’s harpoon?

did you consider ahab’s death a metaphor for autoerotic asphyxiation?

is the whale a metaphor for the ultimate orgasm?
is some avant-garde porn really difficult to watch but totally rewarding in the end?

what is the finnegans wake of avant-garde porn?

does the onanism of finnegans wake lend itself to pornographic adaptation?

 would joyce appreciate a pun like ‘finnegans wank’ or is that too obvious?
would the ouroboric nature of the novel be represented by a circlejerk that culminates in bukkake, the victim of which is a paperback copy (the better to be macerated by the men’s ejaculations) of finnegans wake?

would the ouroboric nature of the novel be represented by a series of intense/contemplative close-ups of the actors’ anuses, or of their mouths in rictuses of pleasure (which is to say the so-called O-face)?

is there a memento of avant-garde porn, possibly in which the cumshot comes first and the actors are tattooed with U.S.C. Title 18 compliance notices to remind us they are of legal age?

is porn a memento mori and/or a memento of human loneliness?

are you reminded of your mortality when you re-encounter the old porn you masturbated to as an adolescent?

when was the last time you masturbated to that one scene from ken park?

would you have sex on camera for larry clark?

when was the last time you masturbated to a lars von trier scene?
were you disappointed by the lack of nudity in melancholia?

were you expecting kirsten dunst and her nephew to have some crazy unsimulated sex before the end of the world?

can you believe lars von trier let that lil boy die a virgin?

is lars von trier a nazi?

when was the last time you masturbated to a youtube video?

are you aroused by things other people deem unsexual?

have you ever been aroused by timelapse videos of flowers blooming?

should larry clark, lars von trier, harmony korine, and brent corrigan collaborate with pier paolo pasolini’s corpse to create the ultimate cinematic porno experience?

is brent corrigan the steven spielberg of gay porn, in that both are really mainstream but occasionally make movies you’d masturbate to (e.g. fuck me raw or schindler’s list)?

can you believe brent corrigan is only 25, considering it feels like he’s been in the industry since before you knew about porn?

do you prefer brent corrigan’s early work, before he turned mainstream/18 years old?

is pornography art or is it the end of art?

are all artists sexually frustrated?

if no one is sexually frustrated, what happens to art?
will all future artists be frustrated pedophiles forced to explore the last true sexual taboo with figurative language?

“everything in the world is about sex except sex. sex is about power.” did a pedophile say that?

are all post-secondary classics departments filled with horny nerds/wistful pederasts?

are straight people boring?

are gay people who want to get married boring?

is the gay rights movement boring?

will the success of the gay rights movement make gay people happy?

will gay people be sad once they have assimilated and married and moved to the suburbs and no longer have an identity or anything to feel indignant about?

do all gay men secretly want to corrupt adolescent boys?

is the internet inhabited mostly by voyeurs or by exhibitionists?

is pornography the most honest art form or the least honest?

why do we call a film bad if it fails to convince us of its fictions, and can we apply the same standard to pornography?
do you feel the need to keep your sexual fantasies as realistic and as plausible as possible?

if your fantasy’s narrative does not proceed logically and coherently, does it fail to arouse you?

have you ever encountered porn so high-def that you had to remove your glasses or contacts to be aroused by it?

have you ever squinted at porn in the hope of making its actors look more like people you know in real life?

does porn fail to arouse you if you’ve seen it once or twice before?

are you currently on a quest for perfect porn, i.e. porn that is immune to the law of diminishing returns?

do you ration your viewing time of a particular pornographic film in the hope that it retains its erotic qualities?

do you save images or videos to your computer and organize them meticulously but look at them only occasionally or not at all?

have you ever composed an ekphrastic essay on pornography?

have you ever been inspired by pornography?