Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Scandalous

What makes a sex tape a scandal for her and a pat on the back for him?

A friend of mine recently broke up with her boyfriend.  In our discussions, talk turned to sex tapes and how they can be seen to ruin or demoralize a girl but the guy who was also participated in the making of such a video sees no repercussions from his involvement.  Inevitably, such tapes are left with guy (his own personal documentation of his foray into pornography) and upon breaking up the girl must then seek to retrieve the tape.  Why does it seem the girl is the only one worried about where it might end up? Does the guy not worry what the girl might do with it?

Also, are sex tape scandals the result of the viewing of the tape by others (the so-called release) or does it only become a scandal when the release is so vehemently protested by the girl.  If that is the case would we also see sex tape scandals if the guy vehemently protested the release. Or would such a scandal exist if the girl complacently stood aside and let such a release take place.  I do not believe the latter would happen.  I think that even if a girl were to not protest such a release it would be viewed as a scandal to her reputation anyways.  While a guy might see a scandal relating to his involvement if he protested the release zealously, it seems that the girl would be scandal ridden just by her involvement regardless of her feelings on it being released.  

So my advice...leave the camcorders at home, ladies.


1 comment:

Tiny le Chef said...

One of the world's top ten biggest lies:

There's only one copy of the tape.