2. i watch porn
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You’re listening to Mannish, this is Jesse Rhodes. And just a quick warning, today’s show contains explicit sexual descriptions and is probably not suitable for children. You’ve been warned.
A few years ago, Pornmd, Pornhub’s search engine, made a big splash by reporting web traffic statistics. That means every time you went to Pornhub, ahem, okay not you but someone, Pornhub used Google Analytics to track your behavior. They’d know things like your age, gender, and location, and then they’d note what terms you searched for or how long you watched videos until, you know, you stopped watching for some reason.
We learned things like ‘blow job’ is the most discussed position in the comment section. Or that 76% of the viewers are men. Or that “anal gangbang” has grown in popularity since 2009 by about 500%.
And before we continue, lets address the elephant in the room: mainstream internet porn. We’ve all seen it. It’s popular and loved. And yet, for fairly obvious reasons, it’s also reviled for its misogyny, as something that perpetuates cycles of violence against women. And people want to change it.
I watch porn, and I've struggled with this myself. I mean, for one, I like to think of myself as a pro-feminist man, and yet I'm still turned on by porn. All of this is to say, when Pornhub created their blog, it felt like big data might finally tackle the most private part of men’s lives: our sexual fantasies.
And so I dove in… and was disappointed. After you step back from all the news articles, you can’t help but feel like the blog comes up short.
Alex Klein: It's just data…
That’s Alex Klein, a senior marketing coordinator for Pornhub. Part of her job is working on the Insights blog. I asked her about the limitations of the data.
Alex Klein: ...it's numbers and terms, so it's obviously not the most personal reporting, I suppose. But I think that it shows, in the larger sense, what, I guess, people's desires are, which is reflected, we just did a really interested report on the top searches throughout the united states, and just kind of showing geographically which kind of content are more popular where. So like lesbian was the big one, but like sort of in the north there's a big chunk of states that are into step-sister porn or step-mom porn, I don't know if that answers the question?
Jesse: Yeah, part of my question I think is like, I actually was looking at that one, I think Kentucky had stepmom as the top searched term and then Ohio, which is right above it, is step-sister, you know, and I'm like, do you ever, I mean, how do you answer the why? Like why?
Alex Klein: Why? We can't, that's the thing.
So after all that crunching, we’re kind of back where we started. That shadowy underside is still pretty shadowy. We know what people are watching, but we don’t know what they're thinking, why they watch it, all the feelings they have before, during, and after they watch it.
So, to do that, to get into some else’s head, you’d kind of have to sit down and talk to them. Ask them why they love gang bang so much? And who wants to do that?
Florian: So hello, my name is Florian. I'm 30 years old researcher in sociology, communications studies, media studies, I'm based in Paris, in France.
Florian Voros. That’s who.
About seven years ago, Florian was a young budding grad student. Like early 20’s young. And not only was he discovering his own sexuality at the time, but he decided to do something few sociologists have done: sit down and talk to porn users.
Florian: Actually it was a bit too... the experience of doing the master's degree was slightly traumatic. For instance I had a sociology of culture class, and when I wanted to apply the notions we had seen to my field work, and I could see my teacher looking at me like, 'sorry, but i can't have an intellectual conversation on pornography, i just cannot.
Some colleagues even implied that Florian was a just a pervert. But he persisted. A professor who had taken Florian under his wing supported the study and things were underway.
Florian went onto forums for porn fans and presented himself as a phd student looking for porn spectators.
And I’m just going to stop here and say that I tried this, several times, in preparation for this episode, and it’s not easy. I got only a few people to respond back, and even then, the distrust of an outsider to the forum, was overwhelming.
And this is what happened to Florian. There were aggressive demands that he prove that he was straight, which he is not. Others wanted him to prove that he was in fact a phd student, which he did. Oddly, there was a journalist bouncing around the forum at the same. I know what you’re thinking, but, no, it wasn’t me. I swear. And at a quick glance, Florian noticed that the journalist was posting similar requests to his and getting similiar blowback. In fact, the journalist made the mistake of using the word addict, which triggered a storm of anger.
But florian continued posting, and slowly, he began to get interviewees. 34 of them, in fact. And here’s what he did differently than the journalist. He said he was a fan. A porn fan. He even used an ‘I love porn’ magnet as his avatar.
And you could say that it was a bit disingenuous, but it did something important. It answered porn fan’s biggest question: are you going to judge me? And the picture of that porn magnet said no, no I’m not.
Florian: This uncareful or stupid announcement by the journalist kind of helped me because with this new announcement I was the nice guy, the guy who was on their side. The guy who was defending porn users and showing that it is a valuable practice and you shouldn’t disregard them and treat them as shameful addicts. In the meantime, in private, some of the users of this forum came to me and said, “okay, yeah. I’m interested. How can we meet?”
Florian emailed back and forth with porn users, gained their trust, and started setting up interviews. Then Florian took the leap. He went into men’s living rooms, maybe their wives were at work or they were single. Sometimes men came over to his place. And they talked.
Florian: In the field work, the first interviews I did were actually quite bad. And when I'm listening back to the records, it's really hard and I cringe a lot and I feel very stupid.
But Forian found his rhythm, the interviews got better.
Florian: Most of these participants were straightforward and pretty efficient at being technical when describing what they like, how they do it. Others were a bit unsettled. One, for instance, asked me if it's okay if he had a hard on. And I said, “Yeah, of course it’s okay. It’s my job.”
Florian would watch the men’s porn with them. He’d try to replicate their online experience while interviewing them, looking up their favorite search terms.
Interviews lasted from one to six hours. Sometimes they’d meet more than once. Florian would balance empathy with contradiction, asking questions that ranged from the first porn you’d seen to what you thought about feminism or whether race played into your fantasies.
The best example of this, and most productive interview, was with a man named Julian.
Florian: He had this imposing presence. We were in my living room and right away he felt at home in my living room. With heterosexual, especially with heteronormative men, one dynamic of the interview, one question I was concerned with or I played with because it was also a game for me, was at what point is he going to get that I'm not hetereosexual and what is it going to change about our relationship.
And so with him, he never got it and I never made it. And actually it was the only interview where it wasn't so much a game anymore and I was kind of very anxious about how it was going to turn out because he generally speaking he was very loud and very conservative about everything, on gender, on sexuality, on race.
Julien told him that he liked U.S. Gonzo Porn, which is handheld, low-budget porn that often involves displays of male domination. But interestingly, Julien also told Florian that he was upset by the porn he watched.
Florian: So he said, "Last evening I saw a porn video and I was really mad because it was a too extreme form of male domination." So he was about to say probably that he felt uncomfortable that he was turned on by this or jerked off to this. But then he, right away he says, "I would have been disturbed if at the end of the video the female actress wasn't, didn't kind of show that it was a play, a game that she was into this gender power play, this kind of hardcore male domination scenario, that she's kind of happy with it and after the actors take care of her and give her a towel to wipe off all the sperm she has on her face, for instance...
So he keeps kind of changing scenarios... He was struggling to connect his beliefs and his tastes… It was really hard for him.
JESSE: This is what it was like for a lot of the men he interviewed. They were split into two halves: the half that was turned-on and the half that was ashamed. With the straight users, for instance, they were usually turned on by extreme male domination. But they also knew, on some level, that this was shameful.
And for Florian, this bolstered a theory he had been playing with, that pornography is about, and these are Florian’s words, “transgressing standards of modesty.” Which means that men were actively seeking out porn that they found shameful. Because, for these men, that shame intensified the pleasure.
Florian: Something interesting about porn is that it is about being bad, because porn is about being naughty and about being perverse, and the way porn titillates us is by bringing us where we don't want to go. Most people are not turned on by what they wish to be turned on.
At this point, you might be thinking: then so what? Where’s the problem. Why can’t people be naughty? Or maybe you’re not totally buying it, because surely there are men out there who take the messages of porn to heart. For Florian, it isn’t about condemning or embracing porn. It’s more about:
Florian: reflecting on one’s own everyday practices and reflecting in a critical way. How does this practice participate in the production of my sensations, my imagination, of what I think about gender?
In other words, it’s not about what you watch, but how you make sense of what you watch. Do you see it as pure fantasy, or does it inform your view of the world? And this is an important question to ask because unlike most media, we watch pornography in isolation and never unpack it. And if we never unpack it, change is impossible.
Florian: One of the aims this investigation is to amplify, and to open up, and to participate in these spaces of discussion on the uses of porn… because enhancing our reflection around these practices is a way to, well, to change them, eventually.
And Ironically, this brings us back to pornhub. Statistics on web traffic might not be the best way to get inside a porn user’s head, but it might be a good place to reflect and get the conversation started.
Alex: It's just words and charts, it's just data, but does speak to what all those people are doing, those 60 million people that visit our site every day. It's not really a big deal and there's some really interesting trends that emerge that we can talk about. By and large, it's important for people to just be comfortable talking about porn because it's not going anywhere anyways, and I don't think it is inherently bad I think it's just, when we don't talk about it, that's when things can get a little dodgy, because people are left to make up their own opinions or thoughts about what's real or what's not. I think if people are left to have this more open dialogue about porn, it would be much better.
After the break, what comments in a porn forum sound like when you read them out loud.
You’re listening to Mannish, this is Jesse Rhodes
Before the break, we heard from Florian Voros about his study of porn users. And something Florian said, resonated with me. He said to have interesting conversations about porn, most people need to be anonymous. And online porn forums are a place where this can happen.
The reason this resonated with me is this. About a year ago, I reached out to porn users for interviews, and only heard back from a few people. I was not nearly as successful as Florian.
So I started scrolling through forums and subreddits for porn users, looking for as many perspectives as I could. And I came across an amazing blog that collected Letters from Men who Watch Pornography.
And for several months, I scoured these forums and letters for quotes. As I read, common themes and opinions emerged. There were the religious folks who thought they were sinning. There were sex positive people who discovered their kinks. By the time I was done, the quotes seemed to fit into a handful of different categories.
I found readers and recorded them. I recorded interviews with users. And what I ended up with is basically a conversation between porn users. Porn users who do NOT speak in one voice or share one opinion. Who share a common interest, but fundamentally disagree about what it all means. And so to end the show, we’re going to do something different: we’re going to listen in on that discussion, and see what a conversation between porn users might sound like.
Just a heads up, this piece is pretty different from the usual format, and so you’re not totally confused, each section begins with an excerpt from a pundit or self-described expert, and then transitions into comments from porn users. It’ll be pretty obvious once you start listening.
Also, just a reminder, the following does contain graphic sexual content and is most definitely not suitable for children. Alright, here’s the piece.
[Montage]
Special thanks to Alex Klein, Florian Voros, and Derek Wilson for speaking with me on tape and Susannah Breslin for sharing her online project, “Letters from Men who Watch Pornography.” To check out any of the websites or studies mentioned in this piece, and you should, go to the Mannish soundcloud page and click on the links.
Also, thank you to all the readers who volunteered their voices: Brandon Pascal, Cliff Casablancas, Ken Look, Christopher Rhodes, Rachel Rhodes, Gregory Palena, Anthony Corey Chan, Ryan Hardiman, Nick Cook, Tony Ta, Shoshana Walter, Alan Walter, Nihal Oztek, and Simon Lam.
To learn more about any of the music you heard in today’s show, go to soundcloud.com/mannishpodcast.
Follow me on twitter, subscribe on itunes,. Thanks for listening. See you next time.
A few years ago, Pornmd, Pornhub’s search engine, made a big splash by reporting web traffic statistics. That means every time you went to Pornhub, ahem, okay not you but someone, Pornhub used Google Analytics to track your behavior. They’d know things like your age, gender, and location, and then they’d note what terms you searched for or how long you watched videos until, you know, you stopped watching for some reason.
We learned things like ‘blow job’ is the most discussed position in the comment section. Or that 76% of the viewers are men. Or that “anal gangbang” has grown in popularity since 2009 by about 500%.
And before we continue, lets address the elephant in the room: mainstream internet porn. We’ve all seen it. It’s popular and loved. And yet, for fairly obvious reasons, it’s also reviled for its misogyny, as something that perpetuates cycles of violence against women. And people want to change it.
I watch porn, and I've struggled with this myself. I mean, for one, I like to think of myself as a pro-feminist man, and yet I'm still turned on by porn. All of this is to say, when Pornhub created their blog, it felt like big data might finally tackle the most private part of men’s lives: our sexual fantasies.
And so I dove in… and was disappointed. After you step back from all the news articles, you can’t help but feel like the blog comes up short.
Alex Klein: It's just data…
That’s Alex Klein, a senior marketing coordinator for Pornhub. Part of her job is working on the Insights blog. I asked her about the limitations of the data.
Alex Klein: ...it's numbers and terms, so it's obviously not the most personal reporting, I suppose. But I think that it shows, in the larger sense, what, I guess, people's desires are, which is reflected, we just did a really interested report on the top searches throughout the united states, and just kind of showing geographically which kind of content are more popular where. So like lesbian was the big one, but like sort of in the north there's a big chunk of states that are into step-sister porn or step-mom porn, I don't know if that answers the question?
Jesse: Yeah, part of my question I think is like, I actually was looking at that one, I think Kentucky had stepmom as the top searched term and then Ohio, which is right above it, is step-sister, you know, and I'm like, do you ever, I mean, how do you answer the why? Like why?
Alex Klein: Why? We can't, that's the thing.
So after all that crunching, we’re kind of back where we started. That shadowy underside is still pretty shadowy. We know what people are watching, but we don’t know what they're thinking, why they watch it, all the feelings they have before, during, and after they watch it.
So, to do that, to get into some else’s head, you’d kind of have to sit down and talk to them. Ask them why they love gang bang so much? And who wants to do that?
Florian: So hello, my name is Florian. I'm 30 years old researcher in sociology, communications studies, media studies, I'm based in Paris, in France.
Florian Voros. That’s who.
About seven years ago, Florian was a young budding grad student. Like early 20’s young. And not only was he discovering his own sexuality at the time, but he decided to do something few sociologists have done: sit down and talk to porn users.
Florian: Actually it was a bit too... the experience of doing the master's degree was slightly traumatic. For instance I had a sociology of culture class, and when I wanted to apply the notions we had seen to my field work, and I could see my teacher looking at me like, 'sorry, but i can't have an intellectual conversation on pornography, i just cannot.
Some colleagues even implied that Florian was a just a pervert. But he persisted. A professor who had taken Florian under his wing supported the study and things were underway.
Florian went onto forums for porn fans and presented himself as a phd student looking for porn spectators.
And I’m just going to stop here and say that I tried this, several times, in preparation for this episode, and it’s not easy. I got only a few people to respond back, and even then, the distrust of an outsider to the forum, was overwhelming.
And this is what happened to Florian. There were aggressive demands that he prove that he was straight, which he is not. Others wanted him to prove that he was in fact a phd student, which he did. Oddly, there was a journalist bouncing around the forum at the same. I know what you’re thinking, but, no, it wasn’t me. I swear. And at a quick glance, Florian noticed that the journalist was posting similar requests to his and getting similiar blowback. In fact, the journalist made the mistake of using the word addict, which triggered a storm of anger.
But florian continued posting, and slowly, he began to get interviewees. 34 of them, in fact. And here’s what he did differently than the journalist. He said he was a fan. A porn fan. He even used an ‘I love porn’ magnet as his avatar.
And you could say that it was a bit disingenuous, but it did something important. It answered porn fan’s biggest question: are you going to judge me? And the picture of that porn magnet said no, no I’m not.
Florian: This uncareful or stupid announcement by the journalist kind of helped me because with this new announcement I was the nice guy, the guy who was on their side. The guy who was defending porn users and showing that it is a valuable practice and you shouldn’t disregard them and treat them as shameful addicts. In the meantime, in private, some of the users of this forum came to me and said, “okay, yeah. I’m interested. How can we meet?”
Florian emailed back and forth with porn users, gained their trust, and started setting up interviews. Then Florian took the leap. He went into men’s living rooms, maybe their wives were at work or they were single. Sometimes men came over to his place. And they talked.
Florian: In the field work, the first interviews I did were actually quite bad. And when I'm listening back to the records, it's really hard and I cringe a lot and I feel very stupid.
But Forian found his rhythm, the interviews got better.
Florian: Most of these participants were straightforward and pretty efficient at being technical when describing what they like, how they do it. Others were a bit unsettled. One, for instance, asked me if it's okay if he had a hard on. And I said, “Yeah, of course it’s okay. It’s my job.”
Florian would watch the men’s porn with them. He’d try to replicate their online experience while interviewing them, looking up their favorite search terms.
Interviews lasted from one to six hours. Sometimes they’d meet more than once. Florian would balance empathy with contradiction, asking questions that ranged from the first porn you’d seen to what you thought about feminism or whether race played into your fantasies.
The best example of this, and most productive interview, was with a man named Julian.
Florian: He had this imposing presence. We were in my living room and right away he felt at home in my living room. With heterosexual, especially with heteronormative men, one dynamic of the interview, one question I was concerned with or I played with because it was also a game for me, was at what point is he going to get that I'm not hetereosexual and what is it going to change about our relationship.
And so with him, he never got it and I never made it. And actually it was the only interview where it wasn't so much a game anymore and I was kind of very anxious about how it was going to turn out because he generally speaking he was very loud and very conservative about everything, on gender, on sexuality, on race.
Julien told him that he liked U.S. Gonzo Porn, which is handheld, low-budget porn that often involves displays of male domination. But interestingly, Julien also told Florian that he was upset by the porn he watched.
Florian: So he said, "Last evening I saw a porn video and I was really mad because it was a too extreme form of male domination." So he was about to say probably that he felt uncomfortable that he was turned on by this or jerked off to this. But then he, right away he says, "I would have been disturbed if at the end of the video the female actress wasn't, didn't kind of show that it was a play, a game that she was into this gender power play, this kind of hardcore male domination scenario, that she's kind of happy with it and after the actors take care of her and give her a towel to wipe off all the sperm she has on her face, for instance...
So he keeps kind of changing scenarios... He was struggling to connect his beliefs and his tastes… It was really hard for him.
JESSE: This is what it was like for a lot of the men he interviewed. They were split into two halves: the half that was turned-on and the half that was ashamed. With the straight users, for instance, they were usually turned on by extreme male domination. But they also knew, on some level, that this was shameful.
And for Florian, this bolstered a theory he had been playing with, that pornography is about, and these are Florian’s words, “transgressing standards of modesty.” Which means that men were actively seeking out porn that they found shameful. Because, for these men, that shame intensified the pleasure.
Florian: Something interesting about porn is that it is about being bad, because porn is about being naughty and about being perverse, and the way porn titillates us is by bringing us where we don't want to go. Most people are not turned on by what they wish to be turned on.
At this point, you might be thinking: then so what? Where’s the problem. Why can’t people be naughty? Or maybe you’re not totally buying it, because surely there are men out there who take the messages of porn to heart. For Florian, it isn’t about condemning or embracing porn. It’s more about:
Florian: reflecting on one’s own everyday practices and reflecting in a critical way. How does this practice participate in the production of my sensations, my imagination, of what I think about gender?
In other words, it’s not about what you watch, but how you make sense of what you watch. Do you see it as pure fantasy, or does it inform your view of the world? And this is an important question to ask because unlike most media, we watch pornography in isolation and never unpack it. And if we never unpack it, change is impossible.
Florian: One of the aims this investigation is to amplify, and to open up, and to participate in these spaces of discussion on the uses of porn… because enhancing our reflection around these practices is a way to, well, to change them, eventually.
And Ironically, this brings us back to pornhub. Statistics on web traffic might not be the best way to get inside a porn user’s head, but it might be a good place to reflect and get the conversation started.
Alex: It's just words and charts, it's just data, but does speak to what all those people are doing, those 60 million people that visit our site every day. It's not really a big deal and there's some really interesting trends that emerge that we can talk about. By and large, it's important for people to just be comfortable talking about porn because it's not going anywhere anyways, and I don't think it is inherently bad I think it's just, when we don't talk about it, that's when things can get a little dodgy, because people are left to make up their own opinions or thoughts about what's real or what's not. I think if people are left to have this more open dialogue about porn, it would be much better.
After the break, what comments in a porn forum sound like when you read them out loud.
You’re listening to Mannish, this is Jesse Rhodes
Before the break, we heard from Florian Voros about his study of porn users. And something Florian said, resonated with me. He said to have interesting conversations about porn, most people need to be anonymous. And online porn forums are a place where this can happen.
The reason this resonated with me is this. About a year ago, I reached out to porn users for interviews, and only heard back from a few people. I was not nearly as successful as Florian.
So I started scrolling through forums and subreddits for porn users, looking for as many perspectives as I could. And I came across an amazing blog that collected Letters from Men who Watch Pornography.
And for several months, I scoured these forums and letters for quotes. As I read, common themes and opinions emerged. There were the religious folks who thought they were sinning. There were sex positive people who discovered their kinks. By the time I was done, the quotes seemed to fit into a handful of different categories.
I found readers and recorded them. I recorded interviews with users. And what I ended up with is basically a conversation between porn users. Porn users who do NOT speak in one voice or share one opinion. Who share a common interest, but fundamentally disagree about what it all means. And so to end the show, we’re going to do something different: we’re going to listen in on that discussion, and see what a conversation between porn users might sound like.
Just a heads up, this piece is pretty different from the usual format, and so you’re not totally confused, each section begins with an excerpt from a pundit or self-described expert, and then transitions into comments from porn users. It’ll be pretty obvious once you start listening.
Also, just a reminder, the following does contain graphic sexual content and is most definitely not suitable for children. Alright, here’s the piece.
[Montage]
Special thanks to Alex Klein, Florian Voros, and Derek Wilson for speaking with me on tape and Susannah Breslin for sharing her online project, “Letters from Men who Watch Pornography.” To check out any of the websites or studies mentioned in this piece, and you should, go to the Mannish soundcloud page and click on the links.
Also, thank you to all the readers who volunteered their voices: Brandon Pascal, Cliff Casablancas, Ken Look, Christopher Rhodes, Rachel Rhodes, Gregory Palena, Anthony Corey Chan, Ryan Hardiman, Nick Cook, Tony Ta, Shoshana Walter, Alan Walter, Nihal Oztek, and Simon Lam.
To learn more about any of the music you heard in today’s show, go to soundcloud.com/mannishpodcast.
Follow me on twitter, subscribe on itunes,. Thanks for listening. See you next time.
Credits:
Special thanks to Alex Klein, Florian Voros, and Derek Wilson for speaking with me on tape. To read the full letters from Susannah Breslin’s project, "Letters from Men who Watch Pornography," go to: lettersfromwatchers.blogspot.com/
Also, thank you to all the readers who volunteered their voices: Brandon Pascal, Cliff Casablancas, Ken Look, Christopher Rhodes, Rachel Rhodes, Gregory Palena, Anthony Corey Chan, Ryan Hardiman, Nick Koch, Tony Ta, Shoshana Walter, Alan Walter, Nihal Oztek, and Simon Lam.
Music licensed under Creative Commons:
Minden - On Assignment freemusicarchive.org/music/Minden/I…t_Instrumental
Josh Spacek - Gotta Keep Moving freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Lose…ta_Keep_Moving
Super Sigil - Bohemia Groove ccmixter.org/files/Super_Sigil/41167
Chris Zabriskie - Readers! Do you Read? freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Za…rs_Do_You_Read
Podington Bear - Lleb freemusicarchive.org/music/Podingto…es__Bells/Lleb
Kevin MacLeod - Club Driver www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhsrR_uvJ7M
Kevin MacLeod - Cut and Run www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1mVzSlddPo
Kevin MacLeod - Lightless Dawn www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E5uY08HThc
Morgantj - Granular Erotic 1 ccmixter.org/files/morgantj/21123
Morgantj - Granular Erotic 2 ccmixter.org/files/morgantj/21125
Williamberry - Beepish 1 ccmixter.org/files/williamberry/5987
Williamberry - Beepish 2 ccmixter.org/files/williamberry/5988
Williamberry - Time to Take out the Trash ccmixter.org/files/williamberry/6855
Nelas - Backnoise ccmixter.org/files/NeLaS/8026
Kentbye - Group Om ccmixter.org/files/kentbye/8981
PorchCat - Nym Junglist Drums ccmixter.org/files/PorchCat/5252
Tonux_gix - Turbulence ccmixter.org/files/tonux_gix/48835
Arcadian Burn - Killa Beat no link
Fourstones - Hip Hop Etude ccmixter.org/files/victor/8453
Djolliej - Don’t Run on Drugs ccmixter.org/files/djolliej/33710
Scottaltham - Slap a Lard Ass ccmixter.org/files/scottaltham/19319
My Free Mickey - First Place ccmixter.org/files/myfreemickey/44325
Stellarartwars - Love Liberation ccmixter.org/files/stellarartwars/43500
Soundeffectsfactory - FM Radio Tuning #1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzBq5faeoKY
Also, thank you to all the readers who volunteered their voices: Brandon Pascal, Cliff Casablancas, Ken Look, Christopher Rhodes, Rachel Rhodes, Gregory Palena, Anthony Corey Chan, Ryan Hardiman, Nick Koch, Tony Ta, Shoshana Walter, Alan Walter, Nihal Oztek, and Simon Lam.
Music licensed under Creative Commons:
Minden - On Assignment freemusicarchive.org/music/Minden/I…t_Instrumental
Josh Spacek - Gotta Keep Moving freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Lose…ta_Keep_Moving
Super Sigil - Bohemia Groove ccmixter.org/files/Super_Sigil/41167
Chris Zabriskie - Readers! Do you Read? freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Za…rs_Do_You_Read
Podington Bear - Lleb freemusicarchive.org/music/Podingto…es__Bells/Lleb
Kevin MacLeod - Club Driver www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhsrR_uvJ7M
Kevin MacLeod - Cut and Run www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1mVzSlddPo
Kevin MacLeod - Lightless Dawn www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E5uY08HThc
Morgantj - Granular Erotic 1 ccmixter.org/files/morgantj/21123
Morgantj - Granular Erotic 2 ccmixter.org/files/morgantj/21125
Williamberry - Beepish 1 ccmixter.org/files/williamberry/5987
Williamberry - Beepish 2 ccmixter.org/files/williamberry/5988
Williamberry - Time to Take out the Trash ccmixter.org/files/williamberry/6855
Nelas - Backnoise ccmixter.org/files/NeLaS/8026
Kentbye - Group Om ccmixter.org/files/kentbye/8981
PorchCat - Nym Junglist Drums ccmixter.org/files/PorchCat/5252
Tonux_gix - Turbulence ccmixter.org/files/tonux_gix/48835
Arcadian Burn - Killa Beat no link
Fourstones - Hip Hop Etude ccmixter.org/files/victor/8453
Djolliej - Don’t Run on Drugs ccmixter.org/files/djolliej/33710
Scottaltham - Slap a Lard Ass ccmixter.org/files/scottaltham/19319
My Free Mickey - First Place ccmixter.org/files/myfreemickey/44325
Stellarartwars - Love Liberation ccmixter.org/files/stellarartwars/43500
Soundeffectsfactory - FM Radio Tuning #1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzBq5faeoKY