Jenny writes:
>From silverj@bmtc.mindspring.com Wed Jan 15 20:49:05 1997
Message-Id: <199701160151.UAA14395@borg.mindspring.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 20:54:51 +0200
From: silverj@bmtc.mindspring.com (Jenny  )
To: whaley@secantnet.com
Subject: [rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature] Guitar Porn
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>     I thought I would use this format to address a pressing concern that
> has recently come to my attention.  I was recently in a music store in
> Massachusettes (which shall remain nameless) and began paging through
> various "guitar literature" and "advertisements", and I was truly shocked
> by what I saw.  Graphic depictions of guitars luridly strewn in unlikely
> poses, closeups of naked necks, backs, sides, bridges... ...  Pure
> Smut.....  I felt outraged.  
>     Maybe I'm just being a prude, but I feel that these so called
> "acoustic guitar advertisements" blantly expoitive and demeaming to
> fretted instruments - just another excuse to show us some naked "wood".  
> Its time we expose this literature for what it truly is:  Guitar Porn. 
> Nothing less.
>  
>     I know many of you think I'm overreacting, but one must be wary of the
> diabolically subtle methods used in these periodicals.  Some of these
> advertising campaigns try to convince us that they are  being "artful." 
> The sensual shadows of Santa Cruz Ads, or the "tasteful" focus upon
> Mideval forests in Taylor Adds (no we're not going to show a naked
> guitar.....Just the headstock!  Just to entice you!  That' right!  Less is
> more!!!).
> 
>    And then of course there are the true offenders.  Larrivee's vivid
> color closeups of fine grained sitka spruce, rosewood, and mahogany, and
> detailed inlay work, often times reducing the guitar to its constituent
> parts - total objectification.....how totally degrading.  And of course
> Martin's adds which not only show us the outside of a guitar, they allow
> us to gape at the inside of the guitar as well - with their detailed
> pictures of the guitar's bracing system.  GOOD GRIEF!  WHEN WILL IT END! 
> When will guitar literature be safe for our children again.
>


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