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Wellness pornography as abuse.

Hello listeners. For this short-ish bonus episode, I'm going to take you behind the curtain

of a recent essay I publish to the Conspirituality Report on Medium. It's called the wellness

pranographers and I'll link to it in the show notes and you might want to pause here and give it a

read, although I'll start with a summary. I had two main influences for this essay, one that I cited,

but one that I didn't. When I get to the second, I'll explain why.

The inspiration I did cite came from philosophers T. Nguyen and Becca Williams on the concept of

generic porn, which they had to define for an article called Moral Outrage porn, which I've

done another bonus episode on, and you can look that up in the show notes. Moral Outrage porn in

general terms is the phenomenon of engaging with morally outrageous content for the pleasure of it,

and without having to worry about the in real life implications of the issue at hand.

The result, Nguyen and Williams say, is a narrowed and cheapened moral posture that

deprives the discourse of gravitas. The political or cultural issue is used and eventually

obscured by a kind of social masturbation. But to get to moral outrage porn, they had to define

this thing I mentioned before, generic porn, and they do it really well. I'm just going to read

from the top of their paper here. Most academic discussion about pornography

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