Amateur
Polaroid Pinups-The Beginning of Home Porn?
The
warning, 'don't try this at home' is typically applied to dangerous
stunts. But when new galleries of images tucked away in dresser
drawer drawers were any indication, it seems the dawn of the
homegrown pin-up photograph had come of age.
As
a teen growing up in NE Ohio my friends played in the woods of a
park system the state dubbed the 'emerald necklace, for green chain
they formed around the city. It was our favorite haunt to haunt to
hike and bike. It was also a favorite a spot favored by young
lovers. In our wild youth we scared the 'bejesus' out of many by
racing up to their vehicle as they were getting 'settled in' and
beating on their doors and shouting.
Luckily
for us we were in terrific shape and knew the woods well as we never
got caught by these angry lovers.
Once
we witnessed a pair of lovers marching off into the woods in the
later afternoon carrying a blanklet and one of those new-fangled
Polaroid camera – perfect for capturing 'nature' shots.
It
wasn't long before those two sheepish lovers came out of the woods
trailed by a park ranger.
When
I attended ASU I carried my trusty Canon AE-1 everywhere to grab
images of the desert, cacti, mountains and all the beautiful women on
campus...it was a great way to meet girls.
While
on vacation with his family, Edwin Land's 3-year-old daughter asks
why she “can't see the picture he has just taken of her.” That
day, Land conceives of the instant camera. By the 1950s he's
patented his miracle camera and millions of folks are using it to
make family memories and to take home porn and nude pinups without
fear of the neighborhood snooping censor at the drug store ready to
call the police...just wait until video cameras and digital cameras
and VCRs come along. The porn age really takes off!
Initially, women rented more
pornographic video tapes than men as it allowed for more privacy and
it helped spell the end of so-called seedy X-rated movie house.
It's
Getting Tougher to Find a Decent Mate
We
live in a “me-centered” society in which tens of millions of
us are literally in love with ourselves. When pleasing self
becomes the highest priority, that doesn’t leave a lot of room
for the kind of self-sacrificial love that marriage requires. An
astounding 24
billion
“selfies” were uploaded to Google last year, and that says a
whole lot about where we are at as a nation. So many of us are
inclined to stay with our “partners” for only as long as they
make us happy, and the instant that ends many of us wish to
dispose of them. And that is a lot easier to do if you are
“living together” instead of being legally married.
A
Lot Of Young Men Of Marriage Age Have Turned Into
Bums
Have
you noticed that a lot of young men in their
twenties and thirties would rather spend all day
watching television and playing video games than
doing something constructive?
And
record numbers of them have moved back home with
no apparent intention of moving out. Today, 32
percent
of all American Millennials are living at home
with Mommy and Daddy. In some cases this is being
done out of necessity because there aren’t
enough good jobs, but in other cases it is simply
pure laziness.
So
what are quality young women supposed to do?
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Labor
of Love: The Invention of Dating
It's
not news that all sorts of supposedly fun activities have grown
harder to distinguish from work says Lidijja Haas Harper's.
But dating
according , according to author Moira Weigel, has never been anything
but a rigged game that sucks away each participant's time, money and
emotional energy-like an unpaid internship, we're told. Near the
close of her searching history of the custom, Weigel concedes that
she happened to find true love while writing the book. More often,
however, the traps set by dating rituals come across as 'the stuff of
horror movies.'
Those
patterns begin with the very first dates: In the late 19th
century, when young single women began moving to cities for low-wage
work, they could afford to have fun only by letting men take them out
– a practice that won them the label 'charity girls' and insults
far worse.
In the 1920s, every
college woman was urged to 'shop around' and the more men she dated,
the more she rose in social status. In the 1950s, that earlier
generation was amazed when teens dtsrted pairing up and going
'steady.'
Many have said dating
is simply a ritual or strategy used to obtain economic security or
romantic love...many of us aren't sure what we want. Dating can be a
lot of fun, an adventure or a nightmare. There are no clear
instructions.
[Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, $26]
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