Would you go to the freak show?

[John Galt]

... well we come here nearly every day don't we?

Seriously, how many check out 'Weird Pics from the Internet' as part of their daily forums perusal?

[Junkenstein]

Originally Posted by runtofu

You know I have this weird thing that when someone tell me about a video or picture with some "freak person" that they saw on the internet I would check that out as soon as I can; but after the first shock of seeing the picture I start feelin like a scumbag for my curiosity. But even as I know that´s how I react to these kind of stuff everytime I keep doing it. I think for that matter im kinda like a little boy who just doesn´t learn the lesson

Curiosity is natural, especially the darker one. I steer away from pictures not even because i feel like scumbag (there's a part of me that IS scumbaggy and i dealt with it), mostly because i feel grossed out, also by the kind of settings those pictures have. I mean the type of sites that used to host that stuff, like rotten.com, was dirty on a whole different level. They were exploiting the picture and my curiosity and they made money out of nowhere.

They are the middle man who would be eliminated. Not unlike what tuttle said, it would be like taking the pimps out of the prostitution equation.

[Junkenstein]

Originally Posted by John Galt

... well we come here nearly every day don't we?

Seriously, how many check out 'Weird Pics from the Internet' as part of their daily forums perusal?

That's my point John. If a freak shows were buitl back and managed by the freaks themselves:

-People would satisfy their morbid curiosity and feel less guilty about it.

-The freaks would gain money out of that and have a better role in society than being the object of thousands of peeping toms. They would have the possibility to gain something from that dark impulse, and feel empowered by it, instead of humiliated.

-The thousands of sites who exploit that with fake pity, will have to disappear, either for legal reasons or because they would become like lame porn vs actual sex.

[Ant-LOX]

I would watch the freaks.