Softcore

From xyclopedia - the history of pornography and sexual expression

The Europeans made the most sophisticated sex comedies, such as the 1973 Danish film Bordello - the perfect sex film for beginners, said porn historian Jim Holliday. Such softcore introduces many people to hardcore pornography.

Scott Boothe put it this way: "Puffing a cigarette in the boy's room can lead to pot-smoking which leads to beer-drinking, tequila-shooting and coke-whiffing. Before a kid can say Betty Ford Clinic, he's mainlining tetracycline just to see how the rush compares to that of a speedball... Viewing pornography possesses a similar tolerance buildup as the stroker searches for the next level of filth and debauchery. At 15 years old, seeing Seka sit on a cock causes spasms. By the time that whack-happy viewer hits 20, he can only be satisfied by five-man interracial anal gang-bangs that climax with simultaneous frothy facials. Soon, even a European pissfest that features fisting and high colonics can barely induce a bone." (HEVG)

After treating numerous sex offenders, Clinical Psychologist and Mormon, Dr. Victor Cline reported that even softcore pornography without violence has "the potential of having negative effects on many viewers... modeling unhealthy sex-role behavior or giving misinformation about human sexuality."

Dr. Cline, whose specialty is the treatment of sexual deviancy, believes that the four progressive effects of pornography are:

• Addiction - needing to view the material leads to a loss of free control over behavior.
• Escalation - leads the person into progressively harder pornography.
• Desensitization - user views others as objects.
• Acting out - fantasizing becomes overt behavior.

The National Council on Sexual Addiction describes sexual addiction this way: "The sexual addict is unable to control his sexual behavior and lives with constant pain, alienation, and fear of discovery. The addiction progresses until sex becomes more important than family, friends, or work."

Once stuck in a motel at midnight, Scott Boothe discovered that after a life of debauchery, soft cable product can be a turn-on. Watching a movie on TV, he could no longer control the action for he has no fast-forwarding capabilities to catapault him past tedious dialogue into the "prime pussy poking pleasures. I am a prisoner of softcore televised porn, a high-wire whacker working without a net..."

"My main source of dissatisfaction with hardcore," says Imperator of the internet newsgroup RAME, "is that it forgets that the primary erogenous zone is the brain. It's all very well casting gorgeous women and showing them with proper amount of full-bodied shots. Radical close-ups and anals and outdoor scenes and orgies are wonderful to watch and there is even enjoyment in some solo scenes since you can feast your eyes on the wonders of the female form. But, there is nothing more erotic than a hot sex scene set up by a good premise. By good, I don't mean plausible.

"Softcore with a plot in the U.S. extends only to the erotic thriller genre, a longtime sickness that has been aggravated by the inexplicable success of Basic Instinct. If you think hardcore is formulaic, do not be deluded into seeking refuge in this stuff. It can be summarized as T&A&G (G for guns)."

Someone once summarized censorship in the Western World like this: "1000 bloodless shootings (a la John Wayne) = 50 bloody shootings (a la Arnie) = 10 gruesome murders (a la Tarantino) = 10 sets of T&A = 5 pussies = 1 penis (flacid). Erect penises are the ultimate taboo." (rec.arts.movies.erotica)