Sex Dreams

Pornography is something beautiful. Yea, I said it.

When the funky soundtrack, expected range of corny dialogue, and sometimes visible scars are forgiven, porn is nothing but the sexiest of our imaginations come to life. The weirdest, wildest, wettest fantasies of them all exist in front of our eyeballs with just a few keystrokes. But when our dreams are delivered in the hottest of wrappings (or lack thereof) on a brightly-lit screen for just a couple bucks a month, do we start to lose the drive to live like the pornstars we admire?

Porno reminds me of one of my first film courses at Rutgers University. The professor, John Belton, a boisterous and fairly average-looking man, addressed the class with a warning. He loudly declared that if anyone did not want to ruin the ignorant process of simple enjoying a movie for the images on-screen, without criticism, they should leave now. To delve deeper into the celluloid, he proclaimed, could ruin some of us for life, a paralysis of shallow entertainment. It sounded much like a disease of no fun, but no one dared leave the room. It was almost a challenge to discover who could be ignorant and proud. I, thankfully, never showed doubt and never looked back.

Yes, entertainment, with or without people fucking, has led me to the Blogosphere. Horny for sex or the silver screen, I have found the screens that surround my life not showing me anything lately but myself. They've become mirrors, as they should be, according to Belton, not the porn industry.

Porno without understanding is expected. It's not creative, it's primal. We know there are no perverted pizza delivery men getting lucky with the tip. And we don't care. But when we realize that porn is time spent observing and not doing, we lose the pleasure of just watching, as Belton warned.

With that, I begin MindPron. It is my chance to be critical of the world, rather than just observe it. Living vicariously through screens and pipe-dreams is just an escape from the hard work it may take to find it myself.

Sometimes, it's just good to think. And that's just what I plan to do.