Comments on: Why Satire Suffers: a Example from the “Adult Entertainment” Industry

By: Con-Artist Revealed

Con-Artist Revealed — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:53:07 +0000

No, I don’t think so, no bail out for porn. And I will use as my reasoning that excuse that has disenfranchised many a day laborer, “You, gentleman may not receive an industry bailout because you are not an industry. Your employees consist mainly of subcontractors.”

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By: BMoon

BMoon — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:15:55 +0000

I have often had occasion to bemoan the sad lot of the satirist in contemporary society.
Thank you, thank you, Mr. Kimball. You understand our pain, our suffering. Satirists are out of work in unheard of numbers. Satire venues are going belly up faster than the wannabe starlets in the Playboy Mansion…..

Hey, maybe we should ask for bailout money.

(My satire blog is at :http://lumpsfromtheleft.blogspot.com/)

By: Skeptic

Skeptic — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:05:46 +0000

>>>>Despite the fact that it generates a great deal of money anually, sex industries are still marginalized – they’re still “dirty” and “unwholesome.”

Well, that’s because it is. Prostitution caught on film (well, video) is still prostitution. It is corrupting and demeaning to both those who do it and those who watch it. That’s the very definition of “unwholesome” and “dirty”.

By: Newmarket2

Newmarket2 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:21:24 +0000

I have heard that Flynt, a known libertarian, said in an interview that the petition to congress was entirely a means to an end. He seems to have no interest in a federal bailout whatsoever and was doing this to highlight the entire concept of the federal government bailing out ANY industry.

By: Charlie (Colorado)

Charlie (Colorado) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:15:30 +0000

At least you got the joke. That’s more than you can say for a lot of people.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:15:34 +0000

>>Pretty funny, right? But how much more outrageous would a government bailout for Mr. Flynt be (and who knows: maybe he’ll get it!) than a government bailout for newspapers? Or a football game?<<

Oh, I don’t know, maybe the fact that those things are considered good, wholesome industries, at least when compared to the sex industry? Despite the fact that it generates a great deal of money anually, sex industries are still marginalized – they’re still “dirty” and “unwholesome.” So by using an industry that always creates such a rabid response in the public (a response which the annual figures of the sex industry put the lie to, but which occurs nevertheless) maybe people who wouldn’t otherwise will finally sit up and pay attention.

Of course it probably won’t happen, since most of the target audience will be too busy whipping themselves into a “moral fervor,” but the point still stands.

By: ahem

ahem — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:02:12 +0000

Satire’s only possible when such a thing as shame exists. No shame, no satire.

By: PA Cat

PA Cat — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:36:09 +0000

The government is already a partner in the “adult” industry– just ask Barney Frank, John Edwards, Eliot Spitzer, and the other usual suspects.