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Other | Friday 27th July 2012 | Osh
The number of ‘celebrities’ who have achieved notoriety through porn videos is a tragic joke.
We all know a celebrity that at one point or another has been caught up in a sex tape scandal. A trait that has been a feature of the celebrity world for years, dating all the way back to Rob Lowe’s infamous mishap with an underage girl on camera in the 1980’s, celebrity sex tapes are another way for us simpletons to laugh and snigger at the all powerful and famous, as well as providing many sad men and overly horny adolescents with the ability to crack one out over a celebrity they would only dream of being able to fuck. For the most part these videos are a bit of a laugh to watch; with most of the time being spent weighing up whether or not the protagonist is actually the celebrity in the first place, being both amused and pissed off by the frequently poor cinematic quality and, in the majority of cases, commenting with your peers about the poor quality of sex you are actually watching. I mean, have you seen one night in Paris? Except for maybe the bj scene at the end, it was the biggest waste of my time and boner.
Now let us pause for a minute think about just how many people have achieved high levels of fame and recognition because an ex-partner has decided to upload a video of their bedroom shenanigans: Kim Kardashian, Tulisa, Abi Titmus, Olivia Mojica, Katie Price, Jessica Sierra…I could go on for a while but I don’t want to bore you with z-list celebrities or names of people you’ll think ‘who the fuck are they?’. For me the issue is that people now can get famous for taking their clothes and sucking dick on film, not for saving lives, being the best at their profession or making a general difference to society like it used to be in ye days of old. Even more disconcerting is ever-growing number of young people who wish to emulate these dire excuses for human beings, because in the back of their mind they’re probably thinking ‘I’ve got pretty looks, a good body and decent set of tits so getting famous will be a walk in the fucking park’.
Obviously there are exceptions; Pamela Anderson moved on from two sex tapes to doing admiral amounts of charity work for the likes of PETA, Greenpeace and Save The Children, Fred Durst isn’t remembered for his sexual adventures but for his work with Limp Bizkit and how many people can fault Rob Lowe on his acting achievements…but for every exception you can dig up, there are countless examples to counteract. All that we can concede is that there will be more sex tapes that will in turn produce more shallow, narcissistic and un-interesting figures with very little to say about themselves that the brain dead of society can wish to emulate while they drool over the next issue of OK magazine.
Sometimes the only thing that keeps me sane is the certain knowledge that all these people and everyone associated with these people will eventually die…
Jack Baron
