Calico Rudasil is a feature columnist for Sssh.com, the award-winning porn site for women & couples. With over 18 years’ experience under her belt, writing about and for the adult entertainment industry, Calico qualifies as something of a Web Porn Dinosaur; similar to a tyrannosaurus, only with far more attractive arms and a less pronounced overbite.
Every time you turn around these days, it seems there’s another story involving a famous person and a social media mishap.
Sometimes, somebody is clearly losing his shit just a little bit. Other times, they tweet or retweet quite dumb and/or factually wrong things when they really should know better.
And of course, there are the people who appear to forget that when they like, favorite or share porn (on purpose or otherwise), other people will see they have done so.
Social Media Porn Excuses: Even If True, They Don’t Work
Maybe it’s true the Twitter account for New York Knicks (interim) Coach Kurt Rambis was hacked and maybe Mayor of Quickborn Thomas Koppl really was merely ‘researching’ BDSM when he visited the pages and sites he accidentally revealed in an uploaded screenshot, but even if their explanations are valid, my sense is nobody believes them anyway.
Part of the reason we don’t believe them, of course, is we know a huge number of people watch porn, including such a high percentage of men researchers have had trouble in the past finding men who have not done so to serve in control groups or as ‘fresh’ subjects in their research.
If you think about it, the near-universality of porn watching among men should probably do more to put people at ease about some of the more hyperbolic claims about watching porn, like the claim it will turn nice, innocent young fellows into murderous creeps.
For some reason, however, when a famous person is ‘outed’ as a porn watcher, the media and many of its consumers go into faux outrage mode, and act as though the idea of a man watching porn is so outrageous, so heinous, we should all grab our pitchforks, down pillows and as much tar as we have handy and head straight to the pervert’s office to give him what for, medieval style.
I have to wonder if part of the problem here is the reflexive tendency on the part of celebrity’s public relations people and media advisors to reach for the “I got hacked” excuse, or something similar. It seems to me these explanations only lead to more scrutiny, as journalists, self-styled cyber sleuths and legions fact checkers are given something new (and potentially provably-false) in which to sink their eager teeth.
Guys, How About Just Owning Your Porn-Fandom, For A Change?
What would the public reaction be, I wonder, if someone like Coach Rambis responded to his twitter porn controversy by saying “Yeah, I watch porn sometimes. So what?”
Sure, some people would freak the fuck out, but how many of these people would be New York Knicks fans in the first place? Perhaps more to the point, would this be James Dolan’s or Adam Silver’s reaction? For that matter, just how “clean” would either Dolan or Silver come out, were we to audit their browser caches?
To be fair, I’m not the sort of person celebrity PR handlers are worried about when they trot out excuses for their clients’ social media flubs. When it comes reacting to the viewing habits of other people, you’re about as likely to get a rise out of me as you are to succeed in getting a Buckingham Palace guard to break discipline (without touching the shoulder where his gun is resting, obviously).
It probably wouldn’t be advisable for Mayor Koppl to try this approach either, given that he’s a politician, and people insist on being even pickier about sexual mores with respect to politicians than basketball coaches. Plus, Koppl is in enough trouble as it is, as the first public’s-right-to-know priority should be getting him to provide some manner of explanation as to what happened to the missing ‘e’ from his name.
Is Abstaining From Social Media Altogether An Option?
It seems like the ubiquity of social media is now dictating that all of these celebrities have to be on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. – but do they have to, really?
It looks like Kurt Rambis’ Twitter account may have been closed since this whole ‘controversy’ kicked up, so maybe the former Laker has decided it’s not worth the trouble. I don’t know how many followers he had to begin with, but if you think about it, the only people who really need to follow him are the players with whom he shares a spot on the sideline.
It’s not that I don’t think all famous people deserve social media accounts it they want them; we all have the inalienable right to make asses of ourselves in public, naturally. I just think if they’re going to take the risk of accidentally airing their sullied laundry on social media, maybe public figures should take a class, or go to an orientation seminar, or spend 15 minutes talking to their kids about how to do it, first.
On the other hand, if celebrities wise up about social media use, my mornings are going to be a lot less entertaining – so please disregard the above, Crazy Kanye, Coach Kurt and Mayor Kppl.
Oh shit, look at that; now his other vowel is missing, too!
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