LMFAO this was awesome, great read. Genuinely thought-provoking but also very funny. More people should write Socratic dialogs in the year of our Lord 2026. I was listening to this instrumental track while reading part of it; definitely enhanced the feeling of Learning Stuff in a Classy Way.

Apropos pornographic film as art: I still want to see Naughty Deaf Roommates just for the curiosity of it. It is probably completely dreadful, but the film itself seems to be completely lost, with only vague descriptions of it from news articles surviving online. It is a direct-to-DVD film from around the mid-2000s, and it is supposedly the first pornographic film with dialog entirely in sign language, created by an all-Deaf studio, with all-Deaf characters, for an all-Deaf audience, complete with various changes to the “formula” of porn to account for the one fewer sense to impress. Confer non-pornographic Deaf Cinema, and confer also pornographic films from the silent film era, many of which you can just straight up watch on Wikipedia now because their copyright expired.