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By "porn" I am referring to media which gussies up things to make them seem more enticing and less mundane than they are in real life. Examples include:
--High fashion, where cl... more.
By "porn" I am referring to media which gussies up things to make them seem more enticing and less mundane than they are in real life. Examples include:
--High fashion, where clothes are modeled on extremely skinny women that 99.9999% of real people do not resemble
--Car magazines, which describe and photograph the joys of driving the latest hyper-expensive Italian exotic through the deserted hills of the Canary Islands when, in real life, even if you could afford such a car, you would often be stuck in traffic and dodging speed bumps to avoid scraping the bottom.
--Food commercials (esp. fast-food commercials) which use trickery and photographic technique to make food much more appetizing than what you'll actually get if you purchase it.
--The rebooted Hawaii Five-O TV show. Yes, Hawaii is gorgeous, but the show producers crank up the contrast on their establishing shots to make the ocean look REALLY BLUE and the foliage REALLY GREEN. And while the Honolulu Police Department has many fine people in it, I ... less
