PETA Jumps The Dolphin-Free Shark; Opens Own Porn Site
from the and-we-all-thought-we'd-seen-the-last-of-torture-porn-after-Saw-XXIII dept
Of all the entities looking to take advantage of the brand (dare I say, “spanking?”) new .xxx TLD, I would imagine that most of us would have put PETA somewhere toward the bottom of the list. True, it has been known to throw around a lot of (human) skin in order to draw attention to boobs ass well-turned ankles the plight of suffering animals, but is PETA finally dropping the pretense (along with most of its proverbial clothing) and going all porno on us?The answer is “yes,” with a “but”:
Reuters reported the story, saying the anti-animal cruelty organization is staking its claim to peta.xxx, which will serve as an animal cruelty awareness and pornography site. Peta has pushed the limits of its animal cruelty ads often in the past with near-nudity, racy slogans and a lot of shock value.
Never before in the history of everything ever has the phrase “animal cruelty awareness and pornography site” ever been uttered (or typed). It’s truly a groundbreaking achievement, one that will likely be refreshingly free of bandwagon jumpers. Porn has long been known for “raising” things, but “animal cruelty awareness” has never been one of them. How exactly does PETA plan to do this? I’m glad/sickened you asked:
“As soon as people land on the site they will see some explicit content, those tantalizing images that they’ll be hoping for,” Rajt said of the site’s content. As they go deeper into the site, however, visitors will find graphic images of animal abuse.
Now, I’m no sociologist but I don’t imagine that your average internetizen is going to be too interested in shocking images of animal abuse while abusing themselves. I could be wrong, but considering there are thousands of other cruelty-free porn sites available, I can’t see this juxtaposition raising much more than frantic mouse fingers in a one-handed effort to steer back to a “happier place.”
However, I can see this attracting a certain subset of society, one that usually ends up behind bars doing multiple life sentences after a long manhunt and several trips to secluded areas to identify dental records. The thought of someone steering towards PETA’s proprietary blend of eroticism and animal torture by choice is more than a little disturbing. One can almost picture the “enthusiast” down in his basement, shouting “IT PUTS THE ‘NOT APPROVED FOR COMMERCIAL SALE’ LOTION ON THE SKIN” in the general direction of the petting zoo imprisoned at the bottom of a 6-foot-hole while dancing around to Moby’s latest, making “Herbal Essence” noises and trying on a new prom dress made from the skin of last year’s prom queen.
Most people view torturing animals as the first sign of a “troubled youth who always kept to himself until one day his house was swarmed by the SWAT team, at which point we all realized that the smell wasn’t a backed-up sump pump, but dozens of decaying corpses.” Somehow, combining porn and tortured animals seems like the sort of thing that someone should be monitoring (from an unmarked van) rather than using to “raise awareness.”
Maybe it will all be just fine. PETA’s spokesperson seems upbeat:
“It can be a pretty depressing subject,” Rajt said about animal cruelty, “We hope it’ll grab people’s attention, get them talking, and ultimately get them to ask questions.”
True that. People enjoying porn love to be interrupted by disturbing images and random conversation. This could bring about a whole new dialogue about animal testing, one that most likely will start with “Doesn’t anyone knock anymore?” and ends with “It’s not what it looks like. I was actually masturbating to normal porn.”
Comments on “PETA Jumps The Dolphin-Free Shark; Opens Own Porn Site”
Happened to me once...
“People enjoying porn love to be interrupted by disturbing images and random conversation.”
There I was, enjoying a solitary moment in my room as a teenager, when my father burst through the door with a napkin in his hand.
“I just fucking smashed the shit out of this spider!” he claimed gleefully. “Now let’s discuss the implications on life in general and…WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IN THAT GIMP MASK!!???”
I’ve been addicted to animal abuse ever since….
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If your profile picture is supposed to be sporting a gimp mask, I’ve been severely misinformed about what a “gimp mask” actually is.
(That might also explain the odd “18+” requirement at the sci-fi conventions I’m asked/forced to attend…)
Shouldn’t PETA be against beating meat?
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Naw, PETA only cares about animals.
If you’re beating/slaughtering/eating humans that’s okay with them.
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Mmmm… delicious long pork…
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on pita…
Tim, is there nothing beneath your notice?
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only you little man
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Nice one. 😉
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Tim, is there nothing beneath your notice?
Nope. And thanks to me, nothing’s beneath your notice either.
Nudity does not equal porn
As far as I’ve read so far, the proposed site is just an extension of PETA’s naked people publicizing animal rights. PETA has promised “tantalizing” content, but the “porn” claims seem to be more hostile reaction to a publicity stunt than reality. I rather expect it will be less porn than, say, and episode of True Blood.
PETA likes publicity. So far, this campaign with all the pearl clutching outrage to it is working very cost effectively.
Inb4 Attorney general up for re-election declares this must be shut down because all the people who are abusing animals are going to this site.
PETA is strange.
I am active in the area of animal rescue and I can tell you that PETA is viewed as a rather strange organization by mainstream animal activists. They maintain that just about all human-animal relationships are wrong. In addition to opposing animal abuse they are opposed to zoos, farm animals and pets. Yes, they feel living with an animal as a pet is wrong. They may even disparage service animals such as therapy dogs and guide dogs for blind persons. They kill dogs and cats that they have “rescued” to spare them the suffering of being somebody’s pet and are opposed to the use of animal products in any form. I think some of them are opposed to shearing sheep for their wool. This extreme position benefits neither human nor animal. I am sure they are sincere in their beliefs but unfortunately they believe crazy stuff.
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It could be worse: at least they’re not crucifying people, have “Crusades” where thousands (millions?) die or flying planes into buildings which then collapse in a curious manner resembling a controlled demolition despite the fact no other skyscraper in history has ever been brought down by plane impact or fire…
I’d put PETA on the “not quite dangerous” end of the crazies list.
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yet
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New Theory Explains Collapse of World Trade Center’s Twin Towers
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110921074747.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29
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Jet fuel burns @ 599F (at hottest)
Aluminum melts @ 1220F
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“The aluminium alloy of the aircraft hulls, which also contains magnesium, melts at a temperature of 660o C. Experience gained from the aluminium industry suggests that it may have taken between half and three-quarters of an hour to reach such a temperature. If molten aluminium is heated further to a temperature of 750o C, it becomes just as liquid as water. I presume that this is what happened within the Twin Towers, and that the molten aluminium then began to run down into the floors below.”
He makes no reference to the maximium heat that could come of a fire containing office supplies, offices, building and jet fuel but he seems to know a little bit about these sort of things…
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“In a “controlled burn” (where oxygen and fuel are regulated in an optimal mix), jet fuel will reach a maximum temperature of 1800 degrees Fahrenheit”
“Jet A is the same stuff burned in conventional steel wall heaters. In an open-air office fire such as that at WTC (called a “dirty burn”) kerosene or any hydrocarbon will burn at around 500-700degrees Fahrenheit”
from a “truther” site: http://www.911weknow.com/911-faqs/8-q-doesnt-jet-fuel-burn-very-hot
so your “facts” need some checking. I imagine there would be quite a lot of oxygen rushing into the building with the pressure change when the seal broke. So it would probably be hotter than a normal “dirty burn” or office fire.
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You might also check out this video.
I Was A Deluded 9/11 Truther
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UULUQfEQFuU
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you might want to check yourself in the mirror, your crazy is showing a bit…
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Sky scrapers, no, but we lost several steel ships due to plane strikes.
“As soon as people land on the site they will see some explicit content, those tantalizing images that they’ll be hoping for,” Rajt said of the site’s content. As they go deeper into the site, however, visitors will find graphic images of animal abuse.”
Is this going to be like a “softcore” version of 4chan’s /b?
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really? did you really just bring that up?
here’s to more white knights on the beloved site.
it’s time to move.
Some info about PETA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ijLulwUTY
People Eating Tasty Animals
Older readers may remember when PETA convinced some judge to take a PETA website away from the first guy to own it.
He had used the site to put up his parody, “People Eating Tasty Animals”.
I’ve never had any respect for PETA after they got that judge to help them steal that guy’s website.
Shades of 'good old days' of religion and commerence...
Looks like PETA is simply practicing techniques harking back to the ‘good old days’ or ancient religion and commerence, offering up sex as an inticement for funding of the ’cause’ – like the religions of Rome/Greece, or getting a client to sign a deal, like the banking systems of Imperial China.
Love or Hate PETA – at least they are being honest about what they are trying to do, stick a pair of teats in your face for you to cough up some coin.
Rule 36 is all I have to say.
Heh.
This is one Alicia Silverstone movie I’d pay to see even if she’s representing PETA.
Give it two months ...
And then one of the higher ups at PETA will send out an email saying he is sorry for the confusion and outrage that this new change has cause and he will be splitting up the two sites. peta.xxx will remain a porn website without any animals involved while petster.xxx will feature images of animal cruelty. He’ll hope he can regain your trust, but all of PETA’s long time supporters will abandon PETA because of this
The .xxx TLD is widely blacklisted
Heck, I blacklisted it long before it went live — and not because it’s intended for porn. (See previous commentary here at TD.) So aside from the merits of the entire concept, PETA’s being clueless about their choice of domain.
lol
Ashton Kutcher is probably going to accuse PETA of sex trafficking underage llamas.
animal equality
Please Eat Them All
This feels like a giant troll. even leaving aside the abvious zoophilia jokes.
So they are going to create a link in people’s minds between sexual arousal and cruelty to animals. Something tells me they didn’t think this one all the way through…
http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/8/29/golfclap128644932656925489.jpg
Bravo.
All that PETA is doing is what they always do: Whoring themselves out for attention.
It’s disappointing that you would give them the attention they desire. It’s self-serving bullshit from these people.
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this was pretty much all i had to say about it… but its already been said.
Seriously, guys? It’s already past lunch and still no cockfighting jokes?
OK, is there anyone left that doesn’t think PETA is completely bonkers? Anyone?
Wow, I can’t believe no one said it yet…I guess PETA is bringing a whole new defintion to “Kitty Porn”
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Or “Kiddy Porn”
(previously know as baby goat porn)
“As soon as people land on the site they will see some explicit content, those tantalizing images that they’ll be hoping for,” Rajt said of the site’s content. As they go deeper into the site, however, visitors will find graphic images of animal abuse.
So get em wanking, then show em gory pics, does anyone see this site becoming the building block for future Dexters?
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More likely a horrible case of “lower whiplash”.
are they assuming the “graphic images of animal abuse” aren’t the “those tantalizing images that they’ll be hoping for”?
Time to start choking that chicken!
If we were to apply the same standard of classification for PETA as we do for many other organizations post 911 we just might find that they are technically a terrorist organization.
3 2 1
BPSSTT HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! (chuckle) (snort)
I can already see the first video:
“This is the only meat I’ll ever eat…”
I can’t fap to this :C
Wait…I thought they were against the abuse of monkeys?
Joking aside what if their intent is to stop Bestiality porn. that would make sense right?
PETA!
PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals.
Unfortunately this entire sordid episode does nothing more than to highlight the fact that some, if not most of their membership are in fact extremist fanatics.
CtF+RtB gone horribly wrong
We’ll just have to write this one off as a failed experiment.
Wouldn’t that be a “butt”, with two Ts? 😉
This is the dumbest idea PETA has ever come up with. There are much better ways to spread awareness. A Porn site?? really? Who’s brilliant idea was that?
Why not launch a preventive promotion, geared towards teenagers (the next generation).
Also, keep in mind that showcasing photos of animal cruelty doesn’t necessarily make people want to help, many people cannot bare to view that kind of material.
In my opinion funding should be spent on providing society with tools to prevent Animal Cruelty, and a way to fight against large meat and like companies by passing laws to protect the way animals are treated by forcing penalties. For the larger companies, attacking their money flow is the only way to really make a difference, and the only thing they will respond to.
Obviously there are many different facets to Animal cruelty, that should all be addresses by society as a whole, but a porn site is seriously not the way to go.
On a separate note to PETA: Imagine how much more you can do for animals with the money you spend sending every household a bunch of printed stamps and labels, that’s the first thing that crosses my mind when I receive those in the mail.
With that said, I appreciate any foundation dedicated to helping animals and children.
ha
PETA goes porn. Awesome! I don’t quite understand how they are going to mix porn and abusing animals but it should be amusing!
Peta site
Had a look. The site got me pretty hard. Kind of disappointed that there’s no porn there, though. I wanted to beat off to hardcore animal cruelty AND softcore pornography. When I read this, I was like ‘yes! Finally in the same place’
But it was not to be.