I suggest that conventionally produced porn has a kind of aura even though it can be reproduced, because it represents one specific occurrence of a sexual act/encounter, unlike AI porn which is unmoored in time and space. I also argue that porn has a "ritual value" (jorkin' it)

this image except 'the same every time' is 5000 grains of white rice

I'm more used to this with writing, but can you start out on paper or a medium which is obviously a draft in order to get yourself unstuck? Even writing DRAFT/PRELIM SKETCH at the top of the paper

I'm also crossposting to Beehiiv if you're using that instead of Substack: gwynesmith.beehiiv.com/p/why-do-bro...

Half of this was ruling out UK presses because their idea of 'trans studies' are books which boldly ask the question: 'should trans women be allowed to piss?' blurbed by some luminary whose children no longer answer their calls