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.
You're right of course. The failure is that liberal society (with a small l) thought the Larry Flint's had defeated the Dworkin's and Gore's by the early 1990's. Those who support a more open society didn't realize that same coalition of radical feminists and religious fundamentalists would panic over their loss on gay rights in 2007 and use the internet as a scary thing along with tech support for their own patent protection reasons justify a new "war on sex trafficking" to pass anti-sex laws like SESTA/FOSTA. A law those perverts from the 80's and 90's could have only dreamed of passing. Cop Kamala obviously played a central role, but like everything truly evil in America this one was truly bipartisan:
"The War on Sex Trafficking Is the New War on Drugs"
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.
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!!
ROFL
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?
I can't even pretend to imagine. I am no mental wizard at finance.
https://youtu.be/vBwycBwJKJ8?t=44
Flammulatus Cummerbund
is a great handle!
every so often I'm not sure if Brando's acting is brilliant or bad.
"I'm not sure if Brando's acting is brilliant or bad."
It's both. Soup AND salad.
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.
"Once the gov. started its war on sex to include porn in the early 2000's"
I remember The War on Sex (To Include Porn) starting in the 1980s. Ed Meese? Tipper Gore? Talk about bipartisan.
I fear this is where we're headed, if we aren't there already: https://youtu.be/E3yARIfDJrY?t=46
You're right of course. The failure is that liberal society (with a small l) thought the Larry Flint's had defeated the Dworkin's and Gore's by the early 1990's. Those who support a more open society didn't realize that same coalition of radical feminists and religious fundamentalists would panic over their loss on gay rights in 2007 and use the internet as a scary thing along with tech support for their own patent protection reasons justify a new "war on sex trafficking" to pass anti-sex laws like SESTA/FOSTA. A law those perverts from the 80's and 90's could have only dreamed of passing. Cop Kamala obviously played a central role, but like everything truly evil in America this one was truly bipartisan:
"The War on Sex Trafficking Is the New War on Drugs"
https://reason.com/2015/09/30/the-war-on-sex-trafficking-is/
Areslent, once again you get my brain going! Many thanks for post and link.
Question: I've always wondered how many people have been busted for child porn for having Traci Lords clips on their PC?
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.