Letter to my Sister
This letter explains enough about my anti-porn statement to make a nice start on my artist’s statement.
Chris,
While I do not do, nor would I ever do, porn, ZTL 4000 is the first in an anti-porn trilogy. The second should be out in just a few weeks (almost done!), and the third is slated to be done by August 8 (that one is stupidly expensive, though, so I’ll just have to keep my pinkies crossed).
These are statements about the fine line between pornography and rape, e.g., how oftentimes depictions of extreme sexual acts are blatant depictions of extremely abusive and aggressive behavior. The sex that abounds on the internet for everyone to see is often straight up S&M without the leather, involving a dominant male and a subjugated female.
Obviously, this is the point of porn and the reason it’s so powerful. It makes young men (and this really is my point) think that this kind of behavior is normal. Young teenagers know more about the act of sex at the age of thirteen than I did at thirty. Let me make that perfectly clear: they know more about the ACT of sex. They have witnessed via the internet more extreme sex acts that the previous generations have actually ever done, and the young generation thinks these acts are normal sex acts. However, they, like all other young people, lack the emotional and intellectual experience to make clear and rational decisions about their own behavior, the consequences of their behavior, or the MEANING of their behavior.
This is why extreme political and social groups recruit young teenagers, by the way. They are really easy targets. They want to be accepted, they want to fit in, they want to be “normal.”
Well, they’re not. At no point in one’s sexual career is it normal to ejaculate into a woman’s face and ask, “You like that, bitch?” That is highly abnormal behavior. The viewer is put in the position of being a highly dominant male who completely controls his chosen mate for the moment and (here’s the sick part) she likes it and begs for more! Isn’t that the rapist’s fantasy?
AT ANY RATE . . .
ZTL is your little brother being very frank about sex, and depicts him in many sexual acts with a dead prostitute. There is no nudity and no penetration, but it’s pretty sick, nonetheless. If you would like to see it, and you have been warned against it, I would be happy to send you a copy.
It was never intended to go this far—it was a joke. Film festivals? For my video blog? Really? The production quality is very, very low. Very, very, very low.
Thanks for letting me rant. It helps me to maintain my vision to have to explain it.
John
P.S. We don’t let young teens drink, drive, have guns, or vote, but their right to reproduce is held to be sacred.
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