astroaztec: (should you eat that?)
astroaztec ([personal profile] astroaztec) wrote2009-09-30 10:56 am

People magazine: the epitome of TMI?

Fortunately I really have no idea who are Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, and I'm not going to care.

[identity profile] ouraboros.livejournal.com 2009-10-01 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
i thought that was the whole purpose behind the existence of People?

as an interesting sociological experiment, it's fun to examine older issues of prurient culture items like the Pirelli calendar or Playboy, just to see how the baseline of "what is just taboo enough to be arousing without revulsion" has moved over time.