Anaxagoras
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ORIGINAL: LookieNoNookie Bigger question is....did you determine that porn just showed up about 30 years ago? Because as best as I can tell....they've been writing this shit on cave walls since your great, great, great, great, great, great (etc.) gramma was around since they figured out what dirt was. I would go along with the rough thirty years estimate if we are talking about moving images. What some call the "Golden Age of Porn" started around 1971 or so but because it was relatively mainstream, there wasn't a great deal of BDSM in it, with maybe a few exceptions like the Story of O which was fairly mild. Although it seems the quality of porn went downhill when video took over ten years later, it at least allowed greater specialisation because the cost of production was far lower and could go to a specialised audience. I haven't seen much porn from the 80's (a bit before my time) but I assume this was when BDSM really made an impact ['scuse the pun]. Putting the archaeology hat on for a mo', I don't think the cave painting which appeared roughly 40,000 years ago in France/Spain qualifies because these works are interpreted as involving religion. Most of the images involve animals so if it did then we would have to think that our ancestors were big into bestiality! Same thing with the primative venus figurines which invoked fertility. I think porn came about more in ancient Greek/Roman times when there was a much greater sense of realism in art, and images of a very explicit nature were found in Pompeii etc. even though it still had some loose association with religion. Maybe thats a new definition for porn: explicit sexual imagery sans religious belief...
< Message edited by Anaxagoras -- 2/8/2012 5:42:12 AM >
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