It was mentioned to me some time ago, by my friend or myself, I cannot remember exactly who mentioned it. From that one time, the concept has been ringing in my thoughts. What would audio pornography be? How should it be written? The sound has been ringing in my mind to such an extent that the notion of it has to be explored. Now trying to write about it made me face the fact that it cannot be adequately covered in one post.
It's not something that one can find an immediate answer to, not even looking for it online produces any good results. You are led to a music blog "about music and juicy toys and sounds", the myspace page of Audio Pornography Trio or an article on wired about audio recordings of a pornograpic nature for the blind. It is interesting that the concept has not been explored in any way. At least it has not been covered in the sense that I am thinking of, that I have discovered. Dissecting the meaning of it is always fun, and shows the different way in which the concept can be understood. Is it audiopornography, audio pornography or audio-pornography?
The first of these, audiopornography, seems to mean something that is familiar. What appears in my mind when I am thinking of it in this way, conjures an image of someone listening to the storyline of a run-of-the-mill pornographic film, but as an audio book. I am still uncertain if it has the proper annotations of literature, descriptions of actions and settings, but it somehow seems that it has to. Dirty stories read aloud, but with all the sounds of physical activity... everything cannot be reproduced in sound.
Thinking of it as audio pornography seems to conjure up a different set of images, it is not necessarily something concerning pornography at all, but it is related to sound. Sound as pornographic, in a sense, or maybe as vulgar. Words and sounds that does not seem proper at all, considering the context in which it appears. I have not made up my mind if such sounds have to be intentional or if they have to be intentional.
What about audio-pornography? One could say that the hyphen only signifies some slight difference in pronunciation, or it might actually signify a conceptual difference. One of the continuing questions that run around in my thoughts concerns what this means. It might, I think, describe the sexual pleasure and arousal of sounds, in any way that it may manifest it self. On an academic and on a personal level, "what are sexual or pornographic sounds?" or "what sounds do I find arousing?"
Writing this makes me realise that this proposes an interesting series of thoughts that I cannot contain within a limited set of words, that is this post... so I will have to pursue them further and expound on them in another post.
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