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I see a future for hard copy media as the rising cost of electricity reduces and eventually stops internet traffic, but most or all collectibles will lose value. A mint mag of some special issue could be worth an armload of firewood.
Im a guy but Ive never understood why so many guys love porn like this, back in younger days, I preferred the real thing... looking at a magazines was a waste of time!
This looks like a good place to jump in......it all depends what one sees in the pictures.Taking that analysis from another angle and long story short, remember that almost anyone in front of the camera is doing a story for the viewer. It is probably not them actually but a fabrication that turns the viewer one way or another. If that story was particularly fantastic to the viewer and they had the source material to refresh their impression as oppose to depending on memory, yes, the loss of it might be quite an impact.
Reading the article, my father sounds a lot like his father in that my father only saw one thing, smut, that proper women didn't go around spreading their legs like that (as he said), that is all he saw in it. A hilarious thing about it is that my father praised me for my independence, that I didn't try to make a life where I depended on my parents........and that independence was inspired in me by looking at Playboy playmates. Right or wrong, that was the lesson I took from such.
So, as stated, is there source material I would be devestated to find that I no longer have? Of the glossy page, I don't think so, I don't recall of a particular one but then again, it has been so long since I have looked at the glossy page......though there may be one or two reasons why one "should". The first is that something is lost. I can probably, with the proper search terms, come up in a second with lots of pictures of what Peter Barry (ie, A Touch of Silk books) to look at in a few blinks......but it does not have the feeling of slowly thumbing through one of his books.
The second is what Giles said: Jenny Calendar: Honestly, what is it about them that bothers you so much? Rupert Giles: The smell. Jenny Calendar: Computers don't smell, Rupert. Rupert Giles: Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower or a-a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences... long forgotten. Books smell... musty and-and-and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is a... it, uh, it has no-no texture, no-no context. It's-it's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then-then the getting of knowledge should be, uh, tangible. It should be, uh, smelly.
(from IMDB, from BtVs "I Robot, you Jane").......and I am sure you punsters can find fun in that passage!
But it can be in part remembering what it was like back then. Given my impressionable little mind when I was young, it is easier to go back to "those times" looking at the works in art books than at those pictures on some website.
Finally, would I be devestated if I came home and found that some one, say someone meaning "well", had deleted my visual data base? Yes, devestated in my own little way, because while a well meaning someone might only see, oh say The Story of O, as cheap bondage adult movies, they don't see what I see, what I feel as not in the pain but the fear, the lack of control, the unknown of what is to come. Like Le Chiffre said, "Torture of the mind. The most exquisite torture is all in the mind." (Casino Royale (1967)).......and sometimes to get to that point, one needs a starting seed.
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Porn is of the devil. The origins come from the mafia back in the 70’s. Gambling casinos and Porn are all evil pastimes with their roots grounded in the pits of hell. People who partake in porn need to repent of this terrible sin. His forgives all of us if we turn to him. No matter what the sin. We all fall short. We all need to repent.
His parents mistake was acknowledging they knew anything about the porn. When he asked them where it was they should have played dumb. But in the end they did what was right by him because anyone who puts porn above their parents is doomed to a bad future.
Porn is of the devil. The origins come from the mafia back in the 70’s. Gambling casinos and Porn are all evil pastimes with their roots grounded in the pits of hell. People who partake in porn need to repent of this terrible sin. His forgives all of us if we turn to him. No matter what the sin. We all fall short. We all need to repent.
You don't actually believe porn started in the '70's?? Even in ancient times there was porn, and in every decade of America.
Good. No one has the right to destroy another's property.
I agree. Thinking that something is wrong or evil doesn't give you the right to destroy something, especially if that something is otherwise lawful to possess and not posing a physical and immediate danger to you or others.
While folks may judge the son for amassing such a large and expensive porn stash (especially as you can get so much porn for free these days . . . though to be fair, some of his porn is apparently vintage, hard-to-get porn), that does not mean that he doesn't deserve to have his property rights protected all the same.
That's the other thing. I hope this lawsuit was truly worth it for the son. While there seems to have been problems between the son and his parents even before the porn destruction (and, thus, maybe he was already disinherited), I would completely disinherit him if I was the parents after having to couch up some dough in this lawsuit. And, to be clear, what I think the parents did was wrong.
I wouldn't have given him anything for emotional attachment. If he brought it into the house after being asked not to I can have no sympathy for him. However.... His parents shouldn't have destroyed it, at least not unless he had left it there for several months and they have him a reasonable amount of time, such as a month to retrieve it. I think once the value was established (if it was all that valuable why wasn't it insured?) he should have bee awarded half the value. Of course, that's not the way the law works.
I wonder if he knew how much publicly the lawsuit would get. He probably could have made some additional income from it. Interviews, maybe a book. LOL.
.........I don’t think people would be defending the parents if they threw out his coin collection or comic book collection.
You might be wrong about that. If he was asked to leave the house and had to be kicked out (isn't this the guy whose parents had to have him legally evicted?), and he was asked to remove his stuff and didn't, I have no problem with his parents throwing all of it out: porn, high school trophies, photos, camping gear, coin collection, comic books, all of it.
If he thought that his porn was something he couldn't live without, he should have put it all into a suitcase and taken it with him when he moved out, not left it for his parents to deal with.
Surely, he must have know that his parents had some issues with porn. Myself, I wouldn't have moved and left my pet cat in my parent's basement because I knew that they despised the idea of pets and I valued the cat. If he valued his magazines and knew his parents disproved, why did he leave them?
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Good. No one has the right to destroy another's property.
. . . though to be fair, some of his porn is apparently vintage, hard-to-get porn), that does not mean that he doesn't deserve to have his property rights protected all the same.
