Yesterday, I wrote about "The Unporny Valley." Sunday night, I had created the graph in a matter of minutes as a kind of a joke. I used to make comics, but I hadn't done anything like that in a long time, and this was a way of getting back into that. Mostly, the graph wasn't supposed to be "real," per se. It was intended as a kind of fantastical way of looking at the uncanny in a different way. And, the graph was incorrect. For example, furries move. (Unless you believe the only good furry is a dead furry.) And, as Xeni pointed out, humanoid sex dolls don't. (Not yet, anyway.) As for zombie bukkake, it turns out JWZ is a fan. The idea behind "The Unporny Valley," though, is real. Until recently, I was working on a nonfiction book proposal about porn. I'm interested in what happens behind the scenes on the set of an adult movie. What happens when the camera isn't looking? As I worked on my proposal, I couldn't help but sense there was something, well, off. There was something about it that was somehow disconcerting. The book would reveal what it's really like in Porn Valley. Was that what people really wanted? What happens in the Unporny Valley isn't very pretty. Maybe people don't want to know. Maybe it's too much to bear.
