imho the term "guilty pleasure" has to do with liking things that someone outside yourself, an authority figure or institution of some kind, has labeled or judged as wrong or bad.
chocolate is called a guilty pleasure because it is high in calories and unhealthy to eat, yet it tastes so good and we want it anyway. we want it even though we know we shouldn't.
that's a kind of a trivial example, because there are things that aren't truly bad or unhealthy that are yet judged a guilty pleasure... fluffy romance, perhaps, or porn.
The judgment may be internalized, but it comes at first from outside. Someone or some institution has told us we shouldn't like something; that likeing something is wrong, and yet we like it anyway.
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Date: 2010-01-24 06:38 pm (UTC)chocolate is called a guilty pleasure because it is high in calories and unhealthy to eat, yet it tastes so good and we want it anyway. we want it even though we know we shouldn't.
that's a kind of a trivial example, because there are things that aren't truly bad or unhealthy that are yet judged a guilty pleasure... fluffy romance, perhaps, or porn.
The judgment may be internalized, but it comes at first from outside. Someone or some institution has told us we shouldn't like something; that likeing something is wrong, and yet we like it anyway.
that's my understanding, anyway.