The porn fairy of the woods used to leave out magazines for boob men and the implants some of those women had were ludicrous. Not to mention every guy was roided out.

Glad there’s been a push in society to be accepting again of people and their body types. Even if porn today still falls into the same tropes of the 80’s and 90’s.

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    It’s not even just plastic, the type of gear a lot of guys get on to get bodies like The Rock is coming home to roost in terms of the damage it does to the body. There’s this older sci-fi film called Yor Hunter from the Future released in '83, right at the tail end of what you’re talking about. B-movie. Not worth watching unless you like so bad it’s good stuff. But you can see in the promotional photos what was “big” and muscular looked like during that time:

    Not to brag, but I have comparable measurements from about a decade of program lifting. I still have people regularly surprised I’ve been lifting as long as I have because I don’t look like a professional wrestler. I look like Yor. Because I’m natty and mostly lifting for fun and health. And now I see teenagers getting on chemicals while their bodies are still developing because they want to look like what they see in Marvel films and it’s really sad.

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    It’s really obvious how ‘looking good’ to some people = ‘an expensive look’

    Not just plastic surgery, those massive sunglasses too where I can’t see your face, am I supposed to find that hot

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    Hexbear: we proudly protect our trans users
    Also hexbear: LOL PUMPED FULL OF PLASTIC

    Fuck off.

    • LesbianLiberty [she/her]
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      311 months ago

      over-your-head

      It’s about how beauty standards in porn tend to err towards ridiculous over time and how it hurts sex worker’s bodies and viewers self perceptions, not how plastic surgery is inherently bad. Plastic surgery is not bad and is in fact cool as hell.

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      1411 months ago

      I don’t mean to come off as disrespectful towards trans comrades, I’m just commenting on how fucked up it was at the time. If you think I’m being transphobic I’ll delete the thread.

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        711 months ago

        I don’t think it’s transphobic at all, but it does make me feel a little bad about the top surgery I’m going to be getting here in the next few months. I wasn’t aware people weren’t exactly welcoming of implants.

      • JustSo [she/her, any]
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        611 months ago

        I’m probably just particularly sensitive today. But I do think critiques of pornography that focus on people’s bodies is pretty gross in general.

        • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]OP
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          No worries. I don’t really have the vocab to express what I’m thinking which is “it’s fucked up porn producers wanted women to do that to their bodies to sell products”. I guess is more in the vein what I was trying to say.

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    i remember my grandma showing me a film she liked from the sixties. it was a noir thing that included a scene in a seedy club. teenage me was astounded to see that the strippers were bigger than me. they had double hips and wide thighs and looked like people i’d seen in real life - and yet they were painted as desirable. i wasn’t even larger than average, but i’d just never seen anyone that looked remotely like me in films/tv aside from as a joke.

    the degree to which conventional beauty standards (despite often being considered objective) have changed is wild, and how much my reaction saddened my grandma is why i started trying to be nicer about myself. women like us have existed forever and always will cri

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    It’s even infested amateur porn. Onlyfans now has everyday people pumping themselves with roids and plastic. It used to be the place you could look for more authentic porn that wasn’t made in a sketchy studio.

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        1811 months ago

        Every time that happens they get castigated for being a SWERF, even when they’re a sex worker themself shrug-outta-hecks

        • gay_king_prince_charles [she/her, he/him]
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          But you see, Ms. Detective, you missed once crucial fact. My duck is throbbing right now and I’m a good person. A good person’s dick wouldn’t get hard from bad things, now would it?

          Seriously, people are far too attached to their treats, especially when it’s porn.

          • iridaniotter [she/her]
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            711 months ago

            Personal interest, higher rate of transphobes among people critical of the industry, and a lack of political education in feminist class analysis among Marxists are at least three reasons I can think of.

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        1111 months ago

        My area has a local toyshop like that, having an emphasis for women and the queer community. Being a bit of a kinkster is suddenly more safe and friendly once you excise the patriarchal elements prominent in so many shops. Hell, we had two, but some protesters were outside one that was basically for married vanilla couples. Same energy as Christians ignoring all the devil shit in Yu Gi Oh because they blew their load on Pokemon.