All I got in my xmas hamper was a shitload of spam

 

Stormyblog has been going for about three months now, and of course, a some spam as well as the genuine comments. It is actually a huge problem for the blogosphere, check out the Akismet stats. But of course, I could always make a pie chart (never much prompting needed!) 

The Akismet stats:

Imagine my surprise, if that is the right word (annoyance more like), when on 25 December (aka xmas day), I was inundated with spam.

From the blog’s inception to midnight on xmas day, Akismet had found 145 spam comments. So of course, getting 35 in one 24-hour period was unusual. What wasn’t unusual was that the majority of spam was porn-related, that seems to be a given.

What was actually unusual was that the percentage of non-porn spam was much higher than average—normally, it’s damn-near all porn-related.

Anyway, as a marketing type person, and a radfem, I thought I’d do a quick analysis of the content of pornie-spam. Looking at this spam (or anything promoted) through advertising eyes almost always reveals what the advertiser (or supplier) thinks of as the ‘best bits’ of his/her product. As porn is the product being promoted, what do these advertisers think of as the ‘best bits’?

Methodology: OK, it’s rough, but I quickly went through the 34 bits of spam and pulled out the ‘key’ words. Later, when I made the bar chart below, I did further group some of the key words into related categories.

Surprise, surprise, rape was mentioned in 30 of the 31 porn-spams. It may actually have been mentioned in the 31st, however, the WP-Akismet dashboard now only gives a truncated bit of the message.

What was surprising (ok, not really), but the spam messages that mentioned rape as their drawcard, usually mentioned it more than once. Only 2 of the 30 mentioned it once (assuming that in the full message they didn’t mention it more). The ‘winner’ of the truncated spams was a mention of rape NINE TIMES in the three-line extract.

So, the Number 1 draw of porn is… rape. (No shit sherlock.) So for all the pro-porn activists out there, this (rape) is what most porn users want to see, at least as defined by the promoters. Get your ostrich head out of the sand.

The rape category also included: gangrape (4), drugrape/drugging (4), gayrape (2) and malerape (1). Female rape, was of course, the default. It was also inferred in 30 of the spam.

The teen/child category included: teen (13), pre-teen (12),  with baby, teenboy, child and gayteens all scoring (1) each. Yep, that’s right BABY porn was in there too. Again I mention that the default for teens and pre-teens was female, the mentions of boy and gay were exceptions.

Racial. The most popular mention was Asian, but also Japanese and Indian, and one or two referrals to Muslim. The default was female.

Violence and torture were put in together, although frequently these were mentioned in conjunction with rape. *nice*

Free, well it was lots of free everything. Just equals entitlement under patriarchy.

I’ve lumped gay/lesbian/trans etc in together, even though ‘lesbian’ (and ‘bisexual’) in this context is NOT the same—as it is lesbian for the male gaze/pleasure. The breakdown was: gay (8), lesbian (4), bisexual (2), transgender (1).

Hentai, Anime, and cartoons were also lumped in together.

‘Grannies’ and incest have about the same amount of popularity. ‘Grannies’ being the category of (male) sex with an older woman, sometimes directly referred to as grannies, sometimes indirectly. The incest category (although an exception) did refer to one ‘father/son’. Sick fucks all around.

Most of the remaining categories are more or less sexual acts (dp = double penetration), with the exception of ’snuff’ (4). Snuff is of course where the pornfilm makers murder a performer in real life, for sexual gratification of the (male) viewer.

The last category was virgin. Only ONE mention. However, I guess it is indirectly covered with all the teen and pre-teen and baby crap going on in the previous categories. It was a surprise that it wasn’t mentioned more, but perhaps pornland has adopted a kind of shorthand or interchangeability with these terms.

So in summary, these are the ‘high points’ of porn, these are things that punters want to see in their porn, these are the *good bits*. I saw no mention of ‘mutually satisfying consensual sex’, etc. Actually, the opposite. It was all about rape. It was all about domination (either of sex, race or age). It was all about force and violence. It was all ‘take’.

This is what porn is all about. How much more obvious could it be? Wake up—and smell the patriarchy in your porn.