I know the morally upstanding readers of FU I’m from Jersey are not well-versed in what cam girls do. But what lots of these ladies engage in (and yes, there are cam men as well) is taking their clothes off for viewers who pay them money…to watch them take their clothes off. These ladies also post videos and pictures of themselves in some state of provocative undress or sometimes in fantasy or even cosplay get-ups a customer might request.
So, there’s your brief quick lesson from your wise old uncle Ralph, just to give you the intel needed to read the rest of this blog.
In the HBO series Euphoria, its third season having just premiered, Sydney “Jeans/Genes” Sweeney returns as the character Cassie. In these new episodes Cassie and her guy Nate are living together, contemplating not just their daily lives, but their impending wedding, which Cassie hopes to be a grand affair. Cassie looks to post some provocative pics and video, via OnlyFans, to grab some fast cash for her upcoming bigtime nuptials and on Euphoria’s first episode, Cassie poses in a puppy costume and does a little fake barking. In a future episode, for the same OF thang, she’ll dress as a much much younger girl. And yes, while I know you’re not into either of these left-of-center sexual diversions, you do get the drift here, right, knowing what cam girls do and what some people’s fantasies could be and how Cassie is exploiting same?
The thing is, and I’m not surprised, but there has been a rather quick and vociferous backlash against Sydney (poor girl, but as the latest ‘it’ personality lots of attention, both good and bad, is being laid upon her pretty little head) and what lots of critics of that puppy scene are calling a “humiliation ritual.” But Euphoria is just keeping true to what happens in the cam world, like it or not.
That ‘or not’ is the root of the problem with the criticism here and what is always behind the censoring of such material and the recent rash or presentism. Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean you have the right to keep anybody else from enjoying that thing. And, because some present-day arbiter of taste and cultural morality deems something ‘sexist,’ or not up-to-date with our modern day supposed evolved taste, doesn’t mean it is wrong or should be smote out. I also bristle against an overall objective label of the word humiliation, used as it is by the critics in this case. As much because what one person feels is humiliating another doesn’t, and in many (and I do mean many, but I know, not you, gentle reader) a bedroom canoodle, consenting sexual humiliation, as determined by partners, is what one or both (or more) partners are after.
So, let’s take it down a notch, tomorrow they’ll be something else to rail against I’m sure. I say, suck on that pacifier Sydney, bark all you like kid; you’re ok by me.
