This juxtaposition of sartorial styles amuses as much as it inspires religious awe. These odd artistic practices reveal one unique quality of pornography as a sacred language and iconography. The ancient power of the great religious communities was based on a concept of time that ignored historical causality in favor of a sort of divine simultaneity. Anything that occurred in the here and now was judged not in terms of an earthly chain of events but in terms of its link to a timeless Divine Providence revealed in the ancient past, but equally applicable to each moment since. This explains each generation of nobleman's interest in being depicted along with the Virgin.
Pornography experiences no such limitation.
While the whole nature of men's beings is sacrally malleable through pornography and the accompanying sacraments of male domination, the continual renewal of this sacred language demands only that women's bodies continue to be malleable. Capitalism provides nicely for this contingency. The ebb and flow of village life, for example, was continually interpreted and reinterpreted for access to sacred truth by the priests who could read the bible for the masses who could not. Now the sacred truth of male domination is available at every drug and liquor store. It has seeped into almost every other aspect of popular culture.