Most people are aware of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and their messages of humane treatment towards animals. Their advertisements are heard on television, movies, radio and seen on billboards and newspapers. They are considered a valued institution and animal lovers abound promote their messages to care for and treat animals with gentle hands.
In a new venture to create a higher awareness, PETA has decided to step out of the box and into the porn industry. A rather questionable turn as far as spreading positive messages go. Not that we haven’t been shocked by PETA in the past with their horrific images in commercials or over the top slogans, but do we really need to have a porn site that intermittently flashes images of violence and abuse of animals?
It seems that in PETA’s desperation to encourage the ethical treatment of animals it has decided the the degradation of women is unimportant. The new XXX website is due to feature lovely women belittling themselves for men in an effort to help these gentlemen turn towards vegetarianism. Something that must make perfect sense, to someone.
But let’s forget the whole degradation angle. Porn has been around for ages and it’s not going to leave anytime soon. Let’s instead focus on the concept of filling a man’s desires online through visual stimulation. A pretty common and even acceptable practice that may get mocked on occasion but is a part of today’s reality.
Now lets let him get comfortable with, himself, as he enjoys the show and then interrupt it intermittently with violent images of animal abuse. It might just be me but something doesn’t quite seem right about that part. It also seems as though it could end badly for a couple of reasons that possibly PETA has not considered.
The man begins to associate sexual stimulation with the need to see bloodied animals.
The man will be trained to associate sex with brutality.
The man stops visiting the PETA porn site and decides that a hamburger would really hit the spot before he visits a “good” porn site.
I honestly have no problem with PETA expanding their possible audience to new and inventive venues, but I’m rather curious to see exactly what the result will be. Will men suddenly decide they should avoid eating all meat? Will viewers be turned off at extremely inconvenient moments? Or will they simply decide to find a site that doesn’t interrupt the entertainment of porn with whithering and abused puppies? Only time will tell.