Friday, November 20, 2009

Lingo update time...

The cartoon lounge brings up an interesting point with the media calling sex tapes  mmm... 'sex tapes'

Everyone in the world has a sex tape. This week alone, b-list celebrities Jennifer Lopez, Carrie Prejean, and Shauna Sand each had a sex-tape scandal. Obviously, people are making these tapes in record numbers for two reasons: publicity, and the fact that it is kind of cool to see your own butt, a thing that is typically outside of one’s own line of sight. ...The real question about these sex tapes is why do we keep calling them “sex tapes”? No one has committed a sex act to VHS for decades. With the exception of a few hipsters in Williamsburg who are shooting old-timey, ironic Betamax sex tapes and Polaroid sex flip books, all “sex tapes” in recent memory have been digital. So, I think it’s time we start calling them “sex movies” or “sex DVDs” or even “computer-sex apps.”

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