I am, without a doubt, a judgmental jerk with no sympathy for the stupidity or general awfulness of others, but I still think I strike a fairly progressive stance on what people should and shouldn't be able to do in the bedroom. As long as it involves consenting adults, I suppose there isn't a problem. But then along comes porn to prove that I really am just some square traditionalist who can't tolerate near as much as he thought he could. The result is Net Insanity's Degradation Station. Today's subject: The skeletons on parade at NSFW--->Absolute Skinny<---NSFW

Absolute Skinny is the kind of thing that fuels the ridiculousness of the Fat Advocacy movement as well as the nightmares of feminists everywhere. The premise of this porn site is simple and frightening. Young women who stand on the very brink of starving to death show off the patches of desperate skin that at one time may have resembled the proper female form.

Like caviar before it, much of the world's Internet porn comes from Russia, that great bastion of human rights and business ethics. More accurately, many of the girls who "star" in Internet porn are from Russia while the men who employ them are often from other nations. Such is the case with Absolute Skinny, one of several sites on the Germany-based Zlata Media label. It's almost poetic that Absolute Skinny is the result of a German-Russian partnership, given that the last time I saw people this emaciated was in a World War II/Holocaust documentary.

The content on Absolute Skinny ranges from the disturbing to the hilarious, all designed to show off just how thin these models are. Maybe the morbid quasi-monsters who pay for a membership at this site were enticed into it by the unmistakably death-like preview image of a nearly bald ghoul of a woman sprawled on a fur rug with a top-notch strangling cord in a coil beside her. Others may have laughed themselves into orgasmic ecstasy upon seeing a blonde in a blue bikini stuffed into a plastic bin that's about half as big as the average car trunk.

As always, I'll have to set aside this combination of nervous giggles and disgust in an attempt to contextualize the so-called porn of this entry. Here's the breakdown for Absolute Skinny:

How is this porn?: The models are frequently in various states of undress. If they were all roughly two and half times fatter than they are in the photos, the pictures might pass for reasonable vanilla porn.

Why is this insane?: These are potential Russian mail-order brides who could come to you in a standard business envelope. It would take a huge suspension of disbelief to even begin fantasizing about having sex with the models on Absolute Skinny. If your ribs make a sound like a crying xylophone every time you walk, there's no way any kind of enthusiastic physical contact with another person would be anything but lethal trauma.

Does this have any appeal outside the Internet?: I'm sure there are some supreme fantasists who are saving up for a plane ticket to an impoverished nation in the hope of finding a stick figure to screw, so I'll say that Absolute Skinny traffics in content that appeals to an existing demographic. Thin was in long before the Internet, but it took the Internet to bring the concept to its logical extreme.