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When people speak of "titillation"

DonZabuDonZabu
edited 2012-05-11 10:39:45 in General

And by titillation, I mean this:



the Renaissance Faire is at the other end of the social spectrum, a whiff of the occult, a flash of danger and a hint of the erotic.



And this about CSI:



All this stuff we're supposed to hate and be disgusted by is often done in lurid, creepy, obsessive detail. This allows the viewing audience a double-edged thrill: they can be horrified and morally offended that it happened, and also get the kinky zing of all the descriptions of nubile teenagers tied up in leather and violated. You can see these sort of things in a lot of old "pulp lesbian novel" cover.



You get the idea.


Are people really that repressed?

Comments

  • JHMJHM
    Here, There, Everywhere

    I'm not sure how to explain this one, other than repeating the words "yes" and "no" over and over again in quick succession.

  • BeeBee
    edited 2012-05-11 14:37:29

    All this stuff we're supposed to hate and be disgusted by is often done in lurid, creepy, obsessive detail.




    And oddly what's not done in lurid and obsessive detail is actual investigation.  Instead we get pulling crime scenes off a reflection from the cornea by enhancing a grainy CCTV 1000x, and GUI interfaces in Visual Basic to track the killer's IP address.


    As for the point of the conversation, I get the feeling the article is more indicative of whoever was writing it than viewership on the whole.  I went to ren faire because jousting and a pig roast.  I don't think there even was occult stuff, and calling anything there erotic would be...strange.

  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!

    Well there are usually 'gypsy dancers' at ren faires I've gone to.

  • BeeBee

    We didn't really have gypsy dancers, so much as a "gypsy band".  They did covers of Flogging Molly, so go figure.

  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!

    I think the phrasing is far overblown, but 'whiff of the occult' isn't exactly wrong about ren faires. But it's D&D rather than demonology.

  • BeeBee


    WITCHCRAAAAFT

  • FeoTakahariFeoTakahari
    edited 2012-05-11 18:28:12

    I haven't watched CSI, but I suspect that description is accurate, because it's been accurate about sexuality in media going back a long time. (The earliest example I know of is Dracula, but I think it's been going on for several centuries.)

  • DYREDYRE

    I don't actually know what this thread is about.

  • MacDuffyMacDuffy
    edited 2012-05-11 20:14:37
    We have reviewed your resume' and we find you delicious.

    Isn't it obvious?


    WITCHCRAAAAAAFT

  • stefstef

    Are people really that repressed?



    Rule of thumb.  Any time you finding yourself asking a question along the lines of, "are people really that [x]," the answer is almost always "yes, because if they weren't then I wouldn't need to even ask that question."

  • BeeBee
    edited 2012-05-12 01:41:51

    If the main audience isn't, the person making that commentary is probably projecting and looking for reinforcement, so regardless someone is.

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