Porn Viewing: Do you know what you're talking about?

[RainDog]

57. well, it's acting, right?

just like other actors can simulate love with another actor, even tho they don't love one another apart from the story they are involved in telling.

...but maintaining the facade that the love was real, or even possible, was one reason so many actors kept their sexual identities a secret... to maintain the illusion. Tho the social prohibition was surely the strongest motivation - but in the past, public people's private lives were managed much differently than now... now, creating gossip about private life seems like part of the celebrity package.

I find it's much easier to imagine sex as an end unto itself via others' stories than I do in my own life - but that's the place where I am in life, too, and people go through stages and phases.