Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Sex Tape Craze 1 Night in Paris Kim Kardashian Colin Farrell Vanessa Hudgens

Sex Tape Craze 1 Night in Paris Kim Kardashian Colin Farrell Vanessa Hudgens

Look around you. If you are in close proximity to at least three other people, one of you has seen at least screenshot from "1 Night in Paris," if not the entire thing.
Chances are that none of you have ever met the heiress who stars in this once-private home video, yet you've seen her in night vision in all of her naked glory. There are countless other sex tapes and inappropriate snapshots that have been released to the public in recent years (Kim Kardashian, Colin Farrell, Vanessa Hudgens, etc.). Now, thanks to Kevin Smith's new film "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," the masses are getting exposed to the art of taping a sex act.
People have a tendency to chronicle their own lives, be it via journal, blog, copious Facebook albums, video or otherwise. The question is not why sex tapes exist, but rather, why complete strangers feel the need to view them? Steven Handel, a junior psychology major, said a sex tape featuring a fellow Binghamton University student might spark his interest.
"I would [watch] it out of curiosity, just to see what it was all about," Handel said. "I would probably not watch the entire thing."
His response proposes that a natural human curiosity may be one of the driving forces that motivate people to view materials of this nature.
English graduate student Devon Branca said sex tapes can be a form of amateur acting. Branca is currently teaching a class called Love and Sex.
"The sex tape speaks to the way in which sex, both for good and bad, has for many become a performance," Branca said. "A performance that, according to the porn industry's own statistics, seems to be increasingly moving towards an amateur expression. An expression perhaps more democratic and culturally heterogeneous than mainstream pornography."

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