"Downloading" pr0n

[Razgovory]

I have decided to stop sorting my porn by how long it's been on my hard drive.  A porn cache from 1998 will no longer be in a folder titled "13 year old porn".

[Barrister]

I have decided to stop sorting my porn by how long it's been on my hard drive.  A porn cache from 1998 will no longer be in a folder titled "13 year old porn".

/1998 is a much more effective directory name.

[dps]

for example some cunt stole our dvd of Barfly... avail in north America legally? nope outta print... goes on ebay for too much money.

Ebay's illegal in Canada?

[dps]

Thing is, you guys are all talking about more or less "legitimate" porn, that you can download from a pay site or for free. The OP is talking about pervs being busted, presumably for having illegitimate porn, like kiddie porn. That stuff is no doubt somewhat hard to get, being illegal, so naturally the pervs in question are going to want to save it when they find some.

Nah - even on the kiddie porn files they usually have a ton of "legitimate" porn as well on their hard drives.

Scare quotes are for..?

Not scare quotes. Used because "legitimate" is a purely invented term in this context.

I'm not sure what you mean.  Does legitimate mean or connote something other than lawful?

one man's "legitmate" porn is another mans "freaky, yet legal, snm" porn (i'm looking at you CdM ). That's ahow a read the quote marks.

I was kind of reading it as meaning that BB feels all porn should be illegal.

[Barrister]

Thing is, you guys are all talking about more or less "legitimate" porn, that you can download from a pay site or for free. The OP is talking about pervs being busted, presumably for having illegitimate porn, like kiddie porn. That stuff is no doubt somewhat hard to get, being illegal, so naturally the pervs in question are going to want to save it when they find some.

Nah - even on the kiddie porn files they usually have a ton of "legitimate" porn as well on their hard drives.

Scare quotes are for..?

Not scare quotes. Used because "legitimate" is a purely invented term in this context.

I'm not sure what you mean.  Does legitimate mean or connote something other than lawful?

one man's "legitmate" porn is another mans "freaky, yet legal, snm" porn (i'm looking at you CdM ). That's ahow a read the quote marks.

I was kind of reading it as meaning that BB feels all porn should be illegal.

I was merely following Malthus' usage of the term.

[The Brain]

Yeah, follow big pharma's lead.

[Malthus]

I was kind of reading it as meaning that BB feels all porn should be illegal.

A sentiment that would earn instant and public execution on this board. 

[dps]

I was kind of reading it as meaning that BB feels all porn should be illegal.

A sentiment that would earn instant and public execution on this board. 

I have no problem with that.  I support the death penalty, remember.

I'm sure that it says a lot about Languish that it's a place where even the right-wing Christian fundamentalists openly confess their enjoyment of porn.   Exactly what it says, I don't know, but I'm sure it says something.

[Malthus]

I was kind of reading it as meaning that BB feels all porn should be illegal.

A sentiment that would earn instant and public execution on this board. 

I have no problem with that.  I support the death penalty, remember.

I'm sure that it says a lot about Languish that it's a place where even the right-wing Christian fundamentalists openly confess their enjoyment of porn.   Exactly what it says, I don't know, but I'm sure it says something.

That we don't care enough about what we think of each other to bother to lie? 

[Martinus]

Yeah, I read it as a moralizing aside, but I posited an alternative.

You guys fail. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Signaling_unusual_usage

"Legitimate" is not a term of art for porn. Porn is not, in fact, divided into legitimate and illigitimate (the established terms would be legal & illegal). Hence use of quotes. Scare quotes are something else again.

Well, you could also say that "Debbie Does Dallas" is legitimate porn, whereas National Geographic's "Women of Africa" is not.

[Martinus]

Incidentally, why does English language uses words "girl" (and in gay sex, "boy") to denote relatively young, but of legal age, objects of sexual desire, when the same words are also used to denote kids?

Anglosaxons: pedophiles at heart?

[Eddie Teach]

Ugly 20 somethings get called boys or girls too.

[Ideologue]

I have decided to stop sorting my porn by how long it's been on my hard drive.  A porn cache from 1998 will no longer be in a folder titled "13 year old porn".

Incidentally, why does English language uses words "girl" (and in gay sex, "boy") to denote relatively young, but of legal age, objects of sexual desire, when the same words are also used to denote kids?

"Girl" is close to synonymous with "woman" anyway.

"Kids" doesn't mean "elementary schoolchildren" either, but can probably be applied up to perhaps 30.

[Ideologue]

I was merely following Malthus' usage of the term.

Even after he explained it, I still don't get the necessity of the quotation marks; legitimate in this context clearly means lawful.

But that said, it's surely the most useless thing in the world to argue over.

[dps]

But that said, it's surely the most useless thing in the world to argue over.

That's the Languish way, though.