WIPS #2

The second reading was by a young man named, Benjamin Marshall. His work was titled, "Discussing Do-It-Yourself Porn: Tastes and Trends in User Generated Sexual Representation." He gave everyone in the room a warning before he began that his analysis was graphic at times and that it might be found highly offensive to some people. He gave everyone the opportunity to leave after he gave his warning. He was reading from an analysis that he made by watching various porn videos on Xtube. The website is another form of Youtube, but this is striclty for adult entertainment. He reviewed several different types of videos. He followed his video examples with some of the comments that corresponded to the videos. He discussed all sorts of issues such as homosexuality, sex with minors, sex with opposite sized people, and the responses to the different kinds of porn. I did not catch what his main objective was for this presentation. I can probably conclude that he was using this to study how people are so different in what they like. He said that he wanted to understand the people in the video and more importantly, the people viewing the material.