:: Schadenfreude is the new abstinence ::

Friday, November 15, 2002

Irving Welsh, author of Trainspotting, describes what drew him to the subject matter of his latest work, Porno:

It's not a very pornographic book, really. I wasn't so much interested in the pornography itself as the pornographic sensibility, that kind of vicarious, intrusive thing about liking to see people get fucked.if not physically, then metaphorically. You can't see people getting fucked physically on TV because of the censorship laws, but you can see it happening metaphorically, with all this schadenfreude TV, this humiliation TV. To me, that's pure pornography, without the sex.

And to think I used to wonder why Wynona Rider's trial was such a frenzy of media attention. Guess we all just harbored a latent desire to see her get nailed (by the cops).

This topic is so rife with double entendres I'm going to quit before I offend someone.

Posted by morland @ 02:59 PM

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