I am waiting for a fearless investigative journalist to tackle this topic: scarcity to surfeit of porn.
Teenage boy c. 1980: "I heard there were some PLAYBOYs hidden in the woods." (Straight Tom Sawyer stuff; he swings a dead cat to divine the location of the porn.)
Teenage boy c. 1995: "gotta uudecode these porn files, 4/4"
Teenage boy c. 2000: "this ability to download porn directly is awesome."
Teenage boy c. 2010: "this ability to livestream porn is awesome"
Teenage boy c. 2020: "All of my favorite models on Chaturbate have grown wearisome. I desire to view new models. The King has spoken."
It's a direct lesson in the economics of scarcity and surfeit. I never worked in the porn industry, but I'm hazarding a guess that the girls in the '70s-'80s were treated better and got more relative take-home pay than the girls now.
Stick with me here Grisha...If a person could measure all the time spent downloading Anna Kournikova pics back in the day and somehow compare that to time spent mining cryptocurrencies...I wonder how much all that time would be worth in BC.
According to Christy Canyon, girls in the industry I n the 80s were much less disposable than they are now. Producers will ask girls now to do God knows what can be imagined for their very first scene, whereas back then they were glad just to find a hot chick who would film.
Not your point, but when has that ever stopped me before?
Your instincts are correct.
By the 80's most porn studios were primarily handled by small studios increasingly owned and run by women from the trade.
Once the gov. started its war on sex to include porn in the early 2000's, those small enterprises were quickly regulated out of business and replaced by mega studios like pornhub, who exploit the labor of their workers.
Meaning the governments involvement in porn had the exact same affect it had on all tech. It destroyed the independent small players and replaced them with large uncaring companies that are easy to extract political donations from and control.
Hahah! I remember putting my first computer together and when I went get online and heard that noise I was certain I'd destroyed something. Almost ran out of the room.
Not if you were on Joe Biden's staff, and then got shitcanned for admitting that you smoked weed. Despite the fact that it may well have been legal in your state.
I'm glad we made it through college in a time before social media. We would have been so screwed.
I'd be screwed if I were on social media now.
...wait, does this count? TK Comments is akin to a 1990s message board with slightly poorer functionality. That's why I like it.
Fully agree GK...this comments section smells a lot like my old BB (BB = bulletin boards for those too young to know).
I'm nostalgic for that dial-up modem noise. The buzz and then the whirr.
But not nostalgic for how long it took to download porn I'm assuming...
Nicely done, sir.
I am waiting for a fearless investigative journalist to tackle this topic: scarcity to surfeit of porn.
Teenage boy c. 1980: "I heard there were some PLAYBOYs hidden in the woods." (Straight Tom Sawyer stuff; he swings a dead cat to divine the location of the porn.)
Teenage boy c. 1995: "gotta uudecode these porn files, 4/4"
Teenage boy c. 2000: "this ability to download porn directly is awesome."
Teenage boy c. 2010: "this ability to livestream porn is awesome"
Teenage boy c. 2020: "All of my favorite models on Chaturbate have grown wearisome. I desire to view new models. The King has spoken."
It's a direct lesson in the economics of scarcity and surfeit. I never worked in the porn industry, but I'm hazarding a guess that the girls in the '70s-'80s were treated better and got more relative take-home pay than the girls now.
Teenage boy, '60s: Rushes to mailbox to see if the National Geographic had come and check to see if it had some naked natives in it!!
Stick with me here Grisha...If a person could measure all the time spent downloading Anna Kournikova pics back in the day and somehow compare that to time spent mining cryptocurrencies...I wonder how much all that time would be worth in BC.
Billions?
According to Christy Canyon, girls in the industry I n the 80s were much less disposable than they are now. Producers will ask girls now to do God knows what can be imagined for their very first scene, whereas back then they were glad just to find a hot chick who would film.
Not your point, but when has that ever stopped me before?
Your instincts are correct.
By the 80's most porn studios were primarily handled by small studios increasingly owned and run by women from the trade.
Once the gov. started its war on sex to include porn in the early 2000's, those small enterprises were quickly regulated out of business and replaced by mega studios like pornhub, who exploit the labor of their workers.
Meaning the governments involvement in porn had the exact same affect it had on all tech. It destroyed the independent small players and replaced them with large uncaring companies that are easy to extract political donations from and control.
Holy Hannah, mother of all truths! Maybe too truthful.
One of these days I hope to have the chance to buy you a drink or three, Grisha.
But how dare you call me "sir", sir!
Hahah! I remember putting my first computer together and when I went get online and heard that noise I was certain I'd destroyed something. Almost ran out of the room.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckc6XSSh52w
Thanks for the porn.
But at least it's not pictures. Bong hits would have been the least of our worries.
I believe bong hits are now largely viewed as benign, but it has been many a moon since I was "hip" to "the scene."
Not if you were on Joe Biden's staff, and then got shitcanned for admitting that you smoked weed. Despite the fact that it may well have been legal in your state.
*VP exempt, of course.
That is a common government test. Ask if someone smoked weed. If they deny it, they can lie their way through anything and thus should be hired.
This question is literally the strainer to weed out those that might be too honest to hire...
He said higher hehehehehe...
Think Hunter Biden, but your daddy isn't the VP or potus.