Words Can Hurt

Please send this to as many people as you can who work in the San Fernando Valley.

A list of things to stop saying in porn, to keep from ruining the entire fucking enterprise:

  • Fartbox
  • Poopbox
  • Shitbox
  • Shitfactory
  • Poopfactory
  • Shitcenter
  • Poopcenter
  • Shitter
  • Crapper
  • Poophole
  • Cornhole

There’s literally no sexy way of saying any of these words. It is highly unlikely that any compound word you find that uses “box” or “factory” will be sexy. Children’s words, such as—but not limited to—“poop” and “potty” are not sexy, and never will be.

I love ass. Absolutely love it. So please have your performers show some respect for ass and don’t use these terrible, terrible words that sully your otherwise fine pornography.

Thank you for your time.

Dirty Marxist

Herpes outbreak: “They are of the same order as those dealt with in microscopic anatomy.”

Fisting: “It can shorten and lessen the birth-pangs.”

NYC: “All bounds of morals and nature, age and sex, day and night, were broken down…capital celebrated its orgies.”

Preference: “Young persons of the female sex exclusively.”

Honesty: “’And I suppose it is very dirty work?’

“’Very dirty.’

“’They get black and grimy?’

“’As black as those who are down the mines.’”

NYC: “Such unclean confusion of bodies and bodily functions, such exposure of animal and sexual nakedness.”

Ideal: “Clothed in a few dirty rags, the legs naked far above the knees, hair and face besmeared with dirt, they learn to treat all feelings of decency and of shame with contempt.”

Desires: “Dark, damp, dirty, stinking holes.”

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“Words Can Hurt” and “Dirty Marxist” are excerpts from Richard Power’s new memoir, Letters from a Heartbroken Pervert. You can purchase the book from Terror House Press here.