XXX porn used as an interactive clothing catalogue

March 24, 2006 7:45 PM

OK, trying to figure if this is appropriate or not.
I mean this - NSFW NSFW or many, many, many other places. May be NSFHome either, depending on your home, most homes probably. It's XXX porn used as an interactive clothing catalogue. Seems like it's an "interesting" phenomenon, but I do realize that the content is pretty friggin' iffy. But it's a genre unlike any I've ever seen. Makes you look. Perhaps not at the clothes but...
PS, it's extremely slow to load, and when you load it, it's porn, but it's also a clothing catalogue. Regular clothing. But it's porn, totally porn (tab A in slot B type porn).
Thought I'd try it here first, rather than the blue. Not really appropriate here either, but... Shit, I don't know, it just didn't seem right for an FPP, but seemed really interesting to me too. Go figure.
posted by johngumbo to Etiquette/Policy at 7:45 PM (31 comments total)

MetaTalk: feature requests, bugs, any porn you happen to see on a Friday night and feel like sharing with a few thousand strangers, etc.
posted by ND¢ at 7:54 PM on March 24, 2006

Cool song. Cute girls, too. But no, not appropriate here.
posted by Gator at 8:07 PM on March 24, 2006

I don't know why, but god damn if I don't want to run out and buy some Coke.
posted by boo_radley at 8:11 PM on March 24, 2006

This Flash porn won't work for me.

My flasher porn, however, hasn't let me down yet... bbl.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 8:15 PM on March 24, 2006

Looks semi-interesting, although the man-woman clip seemed awfully clinical/sterile. Probably not appropriate - maybe as a secondary link on a larger post about pornography's increasing presence in the mainstream? In a context like that such a link loses any shock value, and it's pretty clear to anyone clicking on a link in a post about pornography what they should expect.
posted by Ryvar at 8:19 PM on March 24, 2006

Call it a Web 2.0 mashup and you're all set.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 8:21 PM on March 24, 2006

Also, I really like the music.
posted by boo_radley at 8:23 PM on March 24, 2006

What a great marketing concept! C'mon - how often do you think, whenever you're watching a porn clip on the ol' computer, "Gee - I wonder where I could buy those shorts?"

I wish I had a nickel for every time.
posted by yhbc at 8:24 PM on March 24, 2006

Yeah NSFW stuff is okay here, it should just be somehow labelled so folks know what they're clicking on. I didn't check too much into this site, but I'd probably say what Ryvar said, mix it up with some other stuff maybe, but there's no anti-porn rule here generally.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:27 PM on March 24, 2006

Oh and, when I said "not appropriate here," I meant the Grey. I've certainly put nsfw stuff in the Blue myself before.
posted by Gator at 8:28 PM on March 24, 2006

My only problem with it is that if I watch the videos that interest me -- OK, OK ... when I watched the videos that interested me -- I saw three outfits for women and one for men. Presumably they took the time to film two more outfits that might look great on me, but I'll never see them. And even if they filmed a few more heterosexual love scenes, I might ... er ... lose interest before I got to see them. Not a good marketing strategy.
posted by Acetylene at 8:29 PM on March 24, 2006

So, should I post this on the blue or not?
posted by johngumbo at 8:34 PM on March 24, 2006

I thought it was funny. Maybe that's just me.
posted by puke & cry at 8:35 PM on March 24, 2006

You're actually looking for votes?

No. Not by itself.
posted by yhbc at 8:37 PM on March 24, 2006

Well, jessamyn's given it her tentative blessing, so . . . seriously, work up a really great post with a few interesting links. I never post to the blue, but what I'd go with is a post trying to highlight the dichotomy of American attitudes towards sexuality, stressing the irony factor of the directly capitalist tie-ins. Maybe two more interesting porn-used-in-unusual-but-strictly-commercial-ways links, a good op-ed on the 'meaning' of the reaction to Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction, and something - a news snippet of some sort - casting the FCC as a modern-day antichrist because that will always go over well on MeFi.
posted by Ryvar at 8:43 PM on March 24, 2006

If you had put it on the Blue as-is, I would've said, "Cool song. Cute girls, too. Not much in the way of product offering, though. Meh." Find something(s) interesting to pad it with. Could make an interesting post about how "sex sells" is now literal, yadda, I dunno.
posted by Gator at 8:46 PM on March 24, 2006

Don't take Ryvar's advice too seriously. I mean, if that's the kind of post you want to make, go for it. Otherwise, post it as it is. Just make sure you label it nsfw.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 8:48 PM on March 24, 2006

monjou - on rereading, I probably should've qualified my suggestion more. That's just the kind of post I'd find really interesting to read.
posted by Ryvar at 8:58 PM on March 24, 2006

The blue is for interesting links. This is an interesting link. Post it.
posted by cillit bang at 9:02 PM on March 24, 2006

I think it stands on its own as a worthwhile post.
posted by tiny purple fishes at 9:21 PM on March 24, 2006

I agree. Just post it. People will bitch about it but they always do.
posted by puke & cry at 9:22 PM on March 24, 2006

Post it. Amazing how well human beatboxing and porn go together; someone be sure to tell Rahzel, who could probably use the paycheck.

Also, Mr. Gumbo, "tab A in slot B type porn" made me laugh uncommonly hard.
posted by CRM114 at 9:35 PM on March 24, 2006

Those ads did not make me want to buy clothes.
posted by booksandlibretti at 9:41 PM on March 24, 2006

It needs nothing else. I hate the idea that now you have to go get some filler. It stands on its own.
posted by justgary at 9:48 PM on March 24, 2006

It needs nothing else. I hate the idea that now you have to go get some filler. It stands on its own.

You can say that again.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 9:57 PM on March 24, 2006

We just watched all three. Checked out the girl-girl one--that brunette chick has pussy-eatin' lips--and my bf asked me, "Are we watching the L-Word?"
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 10:13 PM on March 24, 2006

Someone needs to show this to Abercrombie. This is the future.
posted by mullacc at 10:28 PM on March 24, 2006

a minor warning as well, the site doesn't let/like you to *coff* back out of it, so there might be other nasties somewhere in there.
posted by edgeways at 10:30 PM on March 24, 2006

mullacc >>> "Someone needs to show this to Abercrombie. This is the future."


Oh fuck yes.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 12:26 AM on March 25, 2006

Do not post this. It takes too damn long to load, and you'll just get a bunch of comments saying it doesn't work for them and they wish they could see some naked people.
posted by Roger Dodger at 1:29 PM on March 25, 2006

Post it.
posted by armoured-ant at 1:52 PM on March 26, 2006