Glamour and pornography differ in staging, dress, and distance

Evidence

Clothes differentiate glam’s cold and cruel cultivation of appearances from hardcore’s passion for the real. Without suits, dresses and shoes, without fur, leather and nylon, pornography might as well be arranging meat in a butcher’s window. … Would it be impossible for there to be a pornography, sponsored by Dior or Chanel, scripted by a latter-day Masoch or Ballard, whose fantasies were as artfully staged as the most glamorous fashion photo shoot? — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 183

Categorization

• SEED: The Dior/Ballard alternative-pornography provocation is a usable piece of cultural criticism.
• FICTION: The described future sexuality — a race of urban beings beyond passion — could seed speculative fiction.