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Pop culture has the tendency to collectively fixate on a single supernatural phenomenon for a period of time, obsessing over vampires or zombies or wizards until they fade out of relevance and make way for a new vintage porn movies craze. These days, it's witches. Specifically, fictional practitioners of witchcraft that often celebrate and empower the feminine other. 

All in all, like today's hyper-visual culture, the images of the 20th century played a powerful and complex role in the formation of identity. While some narrative histories focus on the solemnity of Generation of '98, a few naughty photos of yore tell a slightly different story.

It stations itself firmly on the bottom of the socio-cultural chain of being. “It’s deliberately stupid humor, savaging of middle-class and professional codes of decorum, its raunchiness and sluttiness all scream white trash.” For the progressive and permissive among us, a billion bare nipples may not be as viscerally irksome as a single bro tank, but both, in their way, are manifestations of personal taste and subtle unrest. This revelation isn't meant to excuse a porno that does degrade women, but simply shift the conversation from immediate outrage to critical analysis, treating good porn as you would classic XXX movies or work of art. 

The unrealistic standards of beauty some porn actresses go through great lengths to meet are not all that different from the standards placed upon women in film, music or television -- and real life. Unlike a Hollywood star pressured to look perfect and ageless without showing a hint of artificiality or exertion along the way, the porn aesthetic is an unapologetic exaggeration of the world we live in. And, even though I’m partial to a lady with natural curves and a full bush, it’s important to be mindful of criticizing a woman’s aesthetic decisions lest we veer right into the bad-feminist territory.