Dear Martin,
I am writing in response to your letter of Feb 16th. First off, let me thank you for adding to the vibrant intellectual dialogue that is a distinctive and valuable aspect of the Wesleyan experience. This dialogue is one important facet of the institution’s ideology. The academic atmosphere that this ideology engenders is the crowning achievement of the institution. Wesleyan is a school that not only encourages engagement with the purely academic; it promotes the analysis of the world we live in. How it is that you failed to recognize the importance during your time here is beyond me, however, that is not the focus of this letter. I am writing to defend Pornocopia’s inclusion in the course catalogue. Let us note that as the founder and engineer, I can assure you I am not a Marxist Professor. I do appreciate the compliment. I may not agree with the adjective but I am rather enthralled by the noun.
I invite you to attend one of my classes. I believe it may pique your interest and perhaps even present you with a new hobby. I believe you will find our visuals to be far more intellectually stimulating than your leaves. Once more, I would like to offer you my sincerest gratitude. Thank you for holding my forum up to the standard of Wesleyan’s encyclopedic curriculum. The same curriculum that nurtured your illustrious intellect.
As diffident a devil as I may be, I will not hide behind layers and layers of jargonese. My interest and fascination with the relationship between Bare It All Barbie and Hegemon Sam is purely academic. Throughout my study I have discovered the Hegemon is no family man. I have tramped through the yukon mining camps and other low end venues, I have wandered through the Met and various institutions of high society, one thing never changed; the porny old porkers were in fact selling like hotcakes and your adored uncle was the dealer.
Pornocopia focuses on more than erotic imagery; its goal is an exploration of relationship between society and the pornographic industry. In our culture we have created a love/sex/eternity/monogamy complex. We only accept sex if it is linked to the other factors in the complex. Such a nexus of social values demands investigation. Pornography, an institution that challenges afore stated values, is taboo. That this makes it worthy of academic investigation seems self-evident. As both a Sociologist and Economist in training, I was intrigued by the paradox of high economic value despite heavy social scrutiny. The relevance of such a paradox needs no defense. Those who denounce it are hypocrites and those who embrace it are human. I am a human and that, my friend, is the money shot.
Yours Truly,
Pornocopia