Porn in the good, old, USA
December 8, 2023
If you’re male, there’s an excellent chance you took part in the ancient ritual that defines a young man’s life: hiding porn from your parents. Those who grew up in the last century might’ve stashed Playboy under the mattress or scrubbed the XXX files from their first PCs. Females are less likely to have done this, though some perused hot goods like Playgirl and Blueboy (meant for gay guys but preferred over Playgirl by a woman friend of mine because “the men are better looking”).
Today, instead of shocking our elders with nekkid pix, we’re the elders and have disapproving children. This conundrum is captured in a New York Times article with one of the all-time headlines, “My 70-Year-Old Mother Spends Too Much on Porn. What Should I Say?”
It seems a man’s recently widowed mum subscribes to four premium porn channels, “adding $160 per month to her already exorbitant cable bill.” Her son says he’s not morally outraged; he just thinks she’d be better off with the “ample” free stuff online. Unfortunately, the story doesn’t identify the channels. Was the editor asleep again? Clearly, this info is one of the vital W’s: Who, What, When, Where, Why, WOWZERS!
However, I imagine the mother picked material that appeals to women or at least doesn’t degrade them. So maybe money isn’t the only source of Sonny’s angst; it also could be based on the fact that his “elderly” mother is sexually alive and aware. Deal with it, man. People her age have been making their own decisions about sexuality for a long time, thank you. Many of us are still expanding our minds and our lives in all sorts of ways, not freezing them in 1970 like a lot of younger folks think. A few wrinkles and some grey or absent hairs don’t change who we are.
Still, as I’ve said before, aging can be a rocky trail. In baseball terms, it’s a barrage of curveballs and exploding sliders (which is not a euphemism for a man’s, uh, Louisville Slugger). No matter how long we’ve been on this Earth, we could all take a lesson from Graham Nash, who’s still making music at 81 and wrote this timeless song.
Originally published at http://daveswanauthor.wordpress.com on December 8, 2023.
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