Violence, Islamophobia And Gay Porn

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1.   What FuelMix Discovered
2.   FuelMix's Reaction
3.   What Is Driving Such Extremism..? 
4.   The Extreme Vigilante Mentality


1.   What FuelMix Discovered

1.   Like many gay guys, we surf the net on downtime and hit up porn for the usual reasons. Readers may also be aware that we wrote Begging For Porn which explores the development and impact of the porn industry.

 2.   The nature of the beast is that there is no shortage of links to explore.  The fastest growing area appears to be sites like Tumblr with user-generated gay porn whereby users fish for porn on the web, upload it to their site and other users upload it to their site.  Think of it as a porn-referral system which goes around and around, increasing in content and viewers.  As we pointed out before, this kind of user-generated referrals rocket up the Google search results, usually ending up on Pages 1 and 2.

3.   Some sites have explicit or intriguing titles. Curiosity always wins.  There's no shortage of in-your-face gay action from vanilla, twink, kink to heavy raunch.  Most categories were represented as we surf-tranced our way through, not bothering to fully watch the videos, quickly scrolling through the pics, pausing at the occasional GIF.

4.   What we weren't expecting was violent and politically motivated gay porn.  And we do mean Violent. 

5.  Initially we thought we had stumbled into the Dark Web, but that requires a Virtual Private Network, floating "spoof" IP addresses, a firewall and an encrypted browser. We're not that smart and we're not in the market for human organs, drugs, weapons or under-age sex.

6.  What we saw on one particular site was stunning and sickening.  It went beyond anything that could be described as "extreme" gay porn.  It exhorted and glorified violence, torture, degradation, hanging and murder of gay men in general  - and of Muslims in particular - with imagery and slogans to match (with a bit of satanic worship thrown in).

7.   The site appeared to have been curated by a gay man.  We're not going to speculate on his state of mind although the violent domination of gay men, the very bloody armed hatred and very bloody portrayal of Muslims appeared to be linked - apparently for sexual gratification.

8.   As we looked at the images, something began to dawn on us.  We're no experts in Photoshop so pardon our ignorance but.....not all the images appeared contrived.  There were pictures of white "faggot" faces that had been beaten, bloodied and bruised.  Pictures of "faggots" being stomped on, pictures of white guys whose bodies were bleeding profusely from severe whipping.  One violently explicit GIF, lasting about 2 seconds, left us reeling because we're not sure whether it was a deliberate and actual killing or just very well staged.


2.   FuelMix's Reaction

1.  The truth is FuelMix is in shock: 

• He's embarrassed and angry at himself for having found the site;  
• He's questioning whether this is a wake-up call to re-examine hitherto mindless porn surfing to kill a bit of time or allegedly de-stress ("Hell, everybody does it..." suddenly doesn't seem to cut it anymore);
• He's angry that the site hasn't been removed;
• He's angry at the advocacy and graphic depiction of extreme gratuitious violence mixed with sexual gratification;
• Paradoxically, he cannot explain his anger;

3.  What Is Driving Such Extremism..?

1.   We had previously observed that this is the Age of Destruction, Disruption and Dissonance.  Look around the world these days and it's blatantly obvious that there is a massive spike in social, political and economic fault lines, schisms, polarizations, political distrust - peppered with disinformation, propaganda, corruption, fraud, lies, skewed justice in favour of the well-connected and seemingly endless wars.

2.   Overlay this with the acknowledgement that this is also the Apocalypse, the true meaning of which, is that which was hidden is now revealed......and one trait becomes obvious: there is anger everywhere in the face of what is being revealed. That anger is being fueled by a sense of betrayal and powerlessness, with the suspicion that this Chaos is being blatantly manipulated.


4.   The Extreme Vigilante Mentality

1.   The anger has to be channeled somewhere.  That cascading sense of tumultuous social, economic, political and geopolitical anger fueled by betrayal and powerlessness, encourages an extreme vigilante mentality.

2.   That will manifest as:

• an armed to the teeth, mercenary, lawless, survival-oriented, frontier-mentality in real life; and / or
• vicariously violent, explicit, sexually extreme depictions of hatred of an identifiable group - for sexual gratification.  Remember, porn has always been an outlet for stress;

3.   There's no point moralizing against the curator of the particular website we saw and which upset us considerably.  Whatever his agenda, his website is a symptom of what has gone perversely wrong in virtually every arena locally and globally.


See also:

• Violence And Hatred In Gay Porn 1
• Violence And Hatred In Gay Porn 2
• Violence And Hatred In Gay Porn 3
• Violence And Hatred In Gay Porn 4

Originally published 23 July 2016
Amended and Republished 24 February 2018

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