Comments on: A Little Love for the Larger Ladies

By: aag

aag — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:13:44 +0000

Kink.com does? Orly. Inneresting.

Thanks Mollena.

By: Mollena

Mollena — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:05:05 +0000

Greetings, AAG!

Thank you for speaking out of the prejudice.

Interestingly, your top sponsor there in the sidebar categorically refuses to even DO BDSM porn with fat girls.

And one of their riggers considers a size 12 woman who is 5’7″ to be a “big girl.”

I’d be interested to see your take them on as well.

Love

Mollena

By: Tony Comstock

Tony Comstock — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:04:24 +0000

Nelson X was, in fact, refreshingly candid in what he wrote. The new wave of BBW porn is no different from the crap that preceded it, except the women are larger. But whatever size the women, what AVN sells will be produced, package and marketed in the same sleazy, demeaning way they do everything else. It’s not AVN’s fault for telling it like it is, it’s your fault for paying attention.

By: aag

aag — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:53:49 +0000

Dear Frank,

If I were the only one to have read Nelson X’s piece that way I might think you had a point. However, I wasn’t the only one. In fact even Paul Fishbein felt the article was inappropriate.

When something is worded in a way I don’t like, it’s perfectly reasonable for me to criticize it. And if you’ll notice, I didn’t complain about being offended by the piece. I said instead that it’s terrible marketing advice.

–aag

By: Frank Want

Frank Want — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:13:18 +0000

If you can’t see it, it doesn’t mean it’s not there. Why shoot the messenger simply because you don’t like the message?

Nelson X knows what he’s doing, and he definitely wasn’t expecting the Pit Roast that came to be after a few hyper-sensitive types projected their own failings and self-loathing onto his piece. Just because something is worded in a way you don’t like doesn’t mean that it’s completely negative or condescending in its’ viewpoints.

By: chelsea g

chelsea g — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:30:21 +0000

Gosh, thanks, AAG. I love being the highest order of just about anything, but satire is one of the nearest and dearest to my heart. I deeply appreciate the props.

kissykiss,
chelsea g.

By: ThatToyChick

ThatToyChick — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:21:39 +0000

I like AVN Novelty, and I really do read it for the articles when people like Jamye Waxman are the ones writing them. But this? Wow.

AVN’s star seems to be – dare I say it – falling. With the ANME show now eclipsing the AVN trade show, which appeared to be hemmoraging attendees this year in comparison to last, they seem to have lost sight of the personalized trend the industry’s taken, especially with articles like that.

The titles and attitudes towards BBW porn need to be altered – they are referenced and marketed like game animals to hunting safaris.

But then, the same can be said for other minorities – african american, asian, and the like. Porn, and all things associated, are too often dragged down in the lowest common denominator phenomena. :(

By: Tony Comstock

Tony Comstock — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:21:12 +0000

A glowing review for PreggoAbuse.com (Miscarriage or Bust!); IR is Recession Proof; BBW; and more if you look for it.

How long till people who call themselves “sex-positive” stop associating with and patronizing AVN?

By: aag

aag — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:29:40 +0000

A social satirist of the highest order? You must be kidding me.

This is social satire of the highest order.

Satire ridicules folly in order to correct it. Nelson’s not ridiculing the folly of bustin’ on large people. He’s ridiculing large people and those who enjoy them. There is a difference. And it seems particularly stupid to ridicule those folks in an article meant to teach retailers how to market to them.

–aag

By: Frank Want

Frank Want — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:01:37 +0000

Nelson X is a social satirist of the highest order. You simply don’t get it.

Besides, if you really want to show love for the BBW community, don’t you think it’d be best to reject a title as shockingly hilarious as PLUMPER HUMPERS or LIFE IN THE FAT LANE?