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Tuesday, May 03, 2005
When Porn Meets Shtick
There's something for everyone, isn't there? Saw a link on Fleshbot to Pievids, a company producing videos of naked women getting hit by pies. Pievids has been around for at least five years now, meaning they're making a profit of some sort.
Whether or not there's actual sex involved once the shtick is committed, I have no idea. Don't want to know, either.
Pies in the face have become polysemic over the years. It's long been associated with a kind of old-fashioned comedy, then protest groups used it as a kind of merry prankster attack on prominent figures, and now this... Amusement, humiliation, and the visceral reaction to sticky messiness is invoked in all three scenarios - but for very different reasons.
Is it possible for those reasons to cross-pollinate, blur, and ultimately become meaningless? If a person gets off on the sexy pievids for long enough, isn't it possible that he'll start getting excited at pie fights from Three Stooges films, or footage of Bill Gates getting smacked by a meringue?
One can only hope.
Personally, I'm always disappointed at the thought of a perfectly good pie being wasted. I try to tell myself the pies don't taste good at all, it makes watching such shtick bearable.
Whether or not there's actual sex involved once the shtick is committed, I have no idea. Don't want to know, either.
Pies in the face have become polysemic over the years. It's long been associated with a kind of old-fashioned comedy, then protest groups used it as a kind of merry prankster attack on prominent figures, and now this... Amusement, humiliation, and the visceral reaction to sticky messiness is invoked in all three scenarios - but for very different reasons.
Is it possible for those reasons to cross-pollinate, blur, and ultimately become meaningless? If a person gets off on the sexy pievids for long enough, isn't it possible that he'll start getting excited at pie fights from Three Stooges films, or footage of Bill Gates getting smacked by a meringue?
One can only hope.
Personally, I'm always disappointed at the thought of a perfectly good pie being wasted. I try to tell myself the pies don't taste good at all, it makes watching such shtick bearable.
