Internet and Porn

[EhhMon]

I read somewhere that 80% percent of Internet use is used mainly to access adult content....ie Porn.

Being guilty of that myself (yeah, I got no shame), I started wondering about it all as I was browsing thru the newsgroups.

With the availability and the affordabitlity of digital cameras, computers, webcams and what-not.....I've notice that many people.......wait a minute, I take that back, I mean hundreds of people should not be allowed to have access to these devices.

Why?! ........because just like "Spandex is not a fat girls friend". The same sort of thing can be said of the thousands of people who are posting their pics on the internet. Especially when its a nude pics.....EEEWWW!!!

So a stupid idea popped into my head: Wouldn't it be better if a law was passed banning everybody from buying a digital camera or webcam etc...unless they were under 40, in great shape, and good looking....because let me tell yah...some of these people shouldn't be posting nude pics of themselves on the internet.

i couldn't get this out of my head, so I needed to rant about this somewhere

[tomndebb]

Well, there is always the option of typing it up in Notepad, printing it out, then shredding it into the trash basket. (That even provides a physical release to the experience.) ;)

[Ogre]

There's pornography on this here "Inter-Net" I keep hearing about?!

Alert Ted Koppel!

By the way, EhhMon, welcome to the boards...and you can probably expect quite a few irate responses from people who don't think you should opine your sexual aesthetic preferences.

tomndebb...don't you think looking into your wastebasket and seeing thousands of tiny shreds of ugly might potentially be more disturbing? :)

[Orange Skinner]

Even assuming the only purpose for digital cameras was for porn...*ahem* ...:rolleyes: one of unattractive people your law bans from getting digital cameras might happen be one proverbial hell of a cinematographer. (Not to end a sentence with a preposition or anything, but), look what a glorious porn experience your not all together thought-out mandate could have deprived you, and countless masturbators of. Tsk tsk.

[misstee]

I have a digital camera and I have never -- ever -- used it to take "adult content " type photos. I do, however, have several hundred of the kids, the mountains, my house ect.

Not everyone who buys a digital camera has pornography in mind.

[Mudshark]

I would guess that only a small portion of digital camera buyers have porn in mind when they actually buy the camera. It's probably an afterthought.

[Troy McClure SF]

Well, it's an afterthought I've obliged in. No, you don't get a cite.

[John Carter of Mars]

Maybe we should just have all fat, unattractive people register with the FBI. The FBI could tattoo numbers on their arms or somethin'. That way it would be easy to keep track of whose porn pictures can't be posted on the 'net. :rolleyes:

[UncleBill]

I think we should get stupid people to register with the FBI. Fat people can often lose weight. Stupidity is terminal.

[Muffin]

How long until school break ends?

[Jonathan Chance]

With luck, two days.

Without, six.

Mata Hari pray for us.

[RTFirefly]

Originally posted by UncleBill
I think we should get stupid people to register with the FBI. Fat people can often lose weight. Stupidity is terminal. Amen to that.

Damned if I see what the problem is, though. IME, the women in Web porn pix are almost invariably young, slim, and attractive, unless one specifically seeks out alternative categories like "fatties", "mature", or even "grannies". :eek:

The existence of such clickable buttons on many porn sites indicates (a) that a fair number of people want to look at such pix, and (b) for the most part, those who don't can easily avoid them. To each his/her own.

[Frank #2]

Originally posted by John Carter of Mars
Maybe we should just have all fat, unattractive people register with the FBI. The FBI could tattoo numbers on their arms or somethin'.

This is a great idea as it can also be easily used to prevent these people from buying spandex, bikinis, and thong underwear. :)

[levdrakon]

Finally, the Homeland Security Bill can be put to good use!

[Skelji]

I can't see how 80% of the Internet is used for porn. 30%, maybe, with another 50% devoted to spam, e-mail jokes, and forwarding of urban legends. :D


People who post their pictures on the Internet are just letting their exhibitionist sides fly, regardless of how they look. Whether they are posted to a website or a newsgroup, there are enough hits or responses to keep the forums going, so obviously there's an interest.

Different strokes (pun or not, your choice) for different folks, EhhMon. The book on sexual turn-ons is at least 2 inches thick. What may make you gack will make someone else whack.

[Legomancer]

Hopefully this won't come off too weird...

Whenever I come across an amateur photo of someone who I not only think is unattractive (myself being a candidate for GQ, of course, and therefore qualified to judge the appearances of others) but who clearly doesn't fit the usual image of attractiveness, I actually kind of smile. Especially if it's clear from the context of the site that these are wives or girlfriends. I like it because it makes me think, "You know, a lot of people would not think this person is attarctive, and yet clearly there's someone who does." That's what's great about us - you just never know what's going to click with someone. And you don't know what else it is about that person that drives someone wild or grabs their heart.

The most gorgeous girl I ever dated was utterly boring - both in the sack and out of it. The one I still pine for in my heart would probably be considered downright homely by some folks.

What's great about internet porn is that there's so much of it. If you don't like this particular photo, move on to one of the other twelve gajillion photos until you come across something you like.

[Francesca]

Whenever I come across an amateur photo of someone who I not only think is unattractive (myself being a candidate for GQ, of course, and therefore qualified to judge the appearances of others) but who clearly doesn't fit the usual image of attractiveness, I actually kind of smile. Especially if it's clear from the context of the site that these are wives or girlfriends. I like it because it makes me think, "You know, a lot of people would not think this person is attarctive, and yet clearly there's someone who does." That's what's great about us - you just never know what's going to click with someone. And you don't know what else it is about that person that drives someone wild or grabs their heart.

This is exactly what I think too when I see these pics too! Someone thinks they're sexy and attractive and that's fabulous. No matter what you look like, someone's going to think you look great. Yay!

[scout1222]

I think it's a good thing I just bought a digital camera for Christmas. That way I'm grandfathered in.

Otherwise, how else would I show the world my post-modern interpretation of safe sex: The Black Condom

http://scout1222.teemingmillions.com/photo.html

[So help me God, I swear it's worksafe - you'll just think I'm a goofball!]

[UncleBeer]

Moderator's Notes: This is just stupid. Off to the Pit with it.

[UncleBeer]

Jesus Christ. That URL you've posted is pop-up city, scout. Three when the page loads and one when you close it. Bleah. I hate that shit.

[Sauron]

Anybody else hearing the OP's title as sung by Burl Ives to the tune of "Silver and Gold"?

Internet porn
Internet porn
How can you measure its worth
Based on the pleasure it brings here on earth ...

[scout1222]

Yeah. I'm trying to edit my page and I get those popups.

Maybe I should pony up the dough to remove the ads.

You think?

[Siegfried]

The closest I've come to using my digital camera for pornographic purposes was when I took a picture of my cat as she was sleeping on my desk. Hey, it counts since she's always running around NEKKID! Even in front of guests!

I mean, really. In the year that I've had my camera, I've taken about a thousand pictures. They're mainly pictures of buildings, friends, and family. The raciest pictures I have are of my cat licking her tail and a statute of a naked woman on campus.

[dave316]

you want to BAN something YOU don't like
you obviously don't have a AMERICAN flag in your front yard like i do
i would suggest you read The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence and Nixon's Checkers speech before you spout such un-American crazy talk. Then i would suggest that you thank the next veteran you see for allowing you to see naked fat people on your computer

[slortar]

What?! You damn Nazi! Are you trying to deny me of my fat old lady porn?!

[airdisc]

I feel sorry for you, EhhMon, what with that guy holding a gun to your head forcing you to look at naked pictures of ugly people.

[cornflakes]

Originally posted by John Carter of Mars
Maybe we should just have all fat, unattractive people register with the FBI. The FBI could tattoo numbers on their arms or somethin'... :rolleyes: Oh great, I can see it now:To: cornflakes@whatever.net
From: Tara@cumSeeMyFattyTats.com
Subject: FREE FBI FATTY FETISH PICS!

THE PICS THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE!
THE PICS YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE!

Hi, I know you didn't ask for this, but you gotta see my pics! I'm fat and tatooed by the FBI, and it's all free!And so on...

[apotheosis]

Originally posted by Ogre
you can probably expect quite a few irate responses from people who don't think you should opine your sexual aesthetic preferences.
And maybe a few who couldn't give two radioactive raccoon shits about his aesthetic preferences, but think restricting someone else's access to women he considers unattractive a magnificently stupid idea.

[LouisB]

Who is this guy?

[TwistofFate]

There's porn on the internet?

and for you're "under 40" rule, would you say no to some choice Goldie Hawn pictures?

[apotheosis]

Originally posted by TwistofFate
and for you're "under 40" rule, would you say no to some choice Goldie Hawn pictures?
Not to mention Michelle Pfeiffer.

Mmmm...the soul-stealing eyes...

[Muffin]

Originally posted by LouisB
Who is this guy?
WAG? Yet another kid at loose ends over the Christmas school break.

[Angel of the Lord]

Y'know how I solved this problem? I don't look at internet porn. I'm at no risk of accidentally happening upon pictures of unattractive people in obscene poses, and, moreover, I'm at no risk of being walked in on while *I'm* in an obscene pose.

In other words: if you don't go lookin' for it, it ain't there.

[Monty]

EhhMon
Member

Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Monterey, Calif

For the first time this year, I'm actually glad I'm not in Monterey anymore.

[Purd Werfect]

Originally posted by Sauron
Anybody else hearing the OP's title as sung by Burl Ives to the tune of "Silver and Gold"?

Internet porn
Internet porn
How can you measure its worth
Based on the pleasure it brings here on earth ...

Unless, of course, you're troubled by girth...

As for the OP - good luck getting anything to revolve around you. I've tried for decades and the world still ignores my pleas.

[firagon]

For the first time this year, I'm actually glad I'm not in Monterey anymore.

Yea, you're stuck in Davis with me. Muhahahaha! :p

[SC_Wolf]

Originally posted by Siegfried
The closest I've come to using my digital camera for pornographic purposes was when I took a picture of my cat as she was sleeping on my desk. Hey, it counts since she's always running around NEKKID!

KITTY PORN! :eek:

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Originally posted by slortar
What?! You damn Nazi! Are you trying to deny me of my fat old lady porn?!


Mmmmmmmmm....fat old lady porn.....


:D

[danceswithcats]

Originally posted by apotheosis
And maybe a few who couldn't give two radioactive raccoon shits about his aesthetic preferences, but think restricting someone else's access to women he considers unattractive a magnificently stupid idea.

Are the raccoons radioactive, or have then simply consumed radioactive material as part of their ordinary diet? Is the National Park Service ensuring that these dangerous beasts and there feces are being properly collected and stored to avoid danger to park tourists?

Or are we going to drop a load of this on Saddam?

AIEEE! Poop from the evil striped beast who wears the mask of the infidel!!

[levdrakon]

Originally posted by Monty
For the first time this year, I'm actually glad I'm not in Monterey anymore.

Oh sure, insult my city based on someone's post.

Isn't Davis the place where you can be arrested for snoring too loud? :p

If you wanna insult Monterey, do it because it's so FRIGGIN' COLD ALL YEAR!

[EhhMon]

Originally posted by airdisc
I feel sorry for you, EhhMon, what with that guy holding a gun to your head forcing you to look at naked pictures of ugly people.

I don't need a gun pointing at my head to look at naked pictures of ugly people.........in the newsgroups like the one for Playboy, you get amateurs who put their pics up in there. So when you click BAM.....its a fat ass heifer.

If I wanted to fat chicks i can go to the local KMART, if I wanted to see fat chicks in daisy dukes, spandex, and bikini tops I can go to any Walmart for that.

But if I go to a newsgroups for "babes" or "centerfolds", a fat nude old chick is not what I had in mind.

Would you choose to view a pic of a naked fat chick over a nude pic of Pamela Anderson or Jenny McCarthy............I think NOT.

And just in case anyone brings it up.......the newsgroups are free, versus the websites. The problem is you have people who are posting their pics in a newsgroup which clearly states what the newsgroup is for......if I wanted to see a fat chick, I'd go to a newsgroup titled "BIG MAMA" or something.

[RTFirefly]

Originally posted by EhhMon
....in the newsgroups like the one for Playboy, you get amateurs who put their pics up in there. So when you click BAM.....its a fat ass heifer.So maybe you should seek out porn in other places. For starters, you might want to go to sites where somebody actually paid the model, rather than sites/newsgroups where any Tammy, Deb, or Harriet can post nude pix of themselves. Trust me, son, finding porn you like on the Web isn't rocket science. And just in case anyone brings it up.......the newsgroups are free, versus the websites. If you can't find tons of free porn on websites, all I can say is that your Web-searching skills are somewhere between pathetic and nonexistent.
The problem is you have people who are posting their pics in a newsgroup which clearly states what the newsgroup is for....The problem is you want the world to restructure itself for your convenience, and gripe like hell when it doesn't, rather than do the least bit of work - a handful of clicks, maybe? - to find what you want out there. You don't even have to get off your sorry ass.

Quit whining and go find it. Or not, I don't care.

And don't bother emailing me to ask for suggestions. Do your own work. If you can't be bothered to do a little digging to find free porn, which is available on the Web in unimaginable quantities, I can't imagine how lackadaisical your research is for school.

[Monty]

lev: Monterey's my city also. I'm here in Davis pursuing a degree in Linguistics. The point I was trying to make is that EhhMon's stupidity, as evidenced in his OP, is damn near apocalyptic in degree.

Plus, Davis couldn't be a town where you can get arrested for snoring. Place is just too boring!

[Liberal]

RT

A stellar evisceration! I salute you. [...salute...] :)

[NoClueBoy]

Originally posted by EhhMon
I read somewhere that 80% percent of Internet use is used mainly to access adult content....ie Porn.



I was gonna be mundane and ask for a cite.

But, then I thought, "What [i]is[i/] the primary use of the internet?" Because I vaugely remember reading something else, that business sites outnumbered porn sites by about the year 1999. And that the most popular single use of the internet was e-mail.

But, no matter how I worded the search, I couldn't come up with anything specific. I can usually find anything I think of asking, so I'm probably not thinking too clearly this morning. Understandable, considering the quantity of wine I consumed at that little party last night. (A friend dropped me off at home, I had walked the three blocks to the party.)

But, I digress...

Can anyone help me find the actual composition of the net and it most popular uses? 'Cause I'm stuck. Maybe I'll ask in IMHO...

As for the rest of the OP: I realize it was probably tongue-in-cheek, but if it wasn't... Get mommy's credit card and buy a membership into one of those sites that are spamming daily. And for God's sake! Wash your hands!

[NoClueBoy]

Shit...

And i even previewd

[going back to bed]

[The Mermaid]

I'm over 40
I could stand to lose a few pounds
I have a webcam and a very nice digital camera

Kiss my entire ass, EhMon. Take all day if you need to. :wally

[NoClueBoy]

Originally posted by The Mermaid
I'm over 40
I could stand to lose a few pounds
I have a webcam and a very nice digital camera

Kiss my entire ass, EhMon. Take all day if you need to. :wally

My God! I think I'm in love!

[not going back to bed, now searching for Merm's web site]

[SandWriter]

<sarcasm>It's so funny that it always takes a couple of posts to find out what the OP really wants. Ehhmon doesn't want to enforce registration of digital camera's, all he really wants is for people to only post appropriate pictures in the appropriate news groups. Now, as SDMB'ers we can all relate to inappropriate postings.

See he's not such a shit heel after all. He's just young, dumb and full of c...

You have to ask yourself, what can I do to help him out? Can't we all just get along?
</sarcasm>

Ehhmon, go down to the quickie mart and buy a penthouse or, if you aren't old enough, buy a cosmopoliton magazine. Either one will be full of pics you want to see at a much cheaper price than waiting for downloads.

[EhhMon]

Originally posted by The Mermaid
I'm over 40
I could stand to lose a few pounds
I have a webcam and a very nice digital camera

Kiss my entire ass, EhMon. Take all day if you need to. :wally

If its as big as it sounds, it make take a century......I'll pass! Thanks for the offer though.:o

[elmwood]

You've seen "10" couples before, right? The guy's a beanpole, the woman's a bit rotund? Quite common in Southern states.

Somewhere in Winter Garden Florida, or Dothan, Alabama, or Valdosta, Georgia, there's a guy in a trailer park browsing throgh alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur. He's bypassing the nudies of strippers, because he knows in his heart, it's worthless to waste a good splort on it; he doesn't have a chance in hell of getting a woman like that, and he knows it.

However, here's something a bit closer to home. A fuzzy picture, wood paneling in the background, a 19" tv sitting on a broken console TV, and a 5'5", 190 pound, 40 year old woman with a tattoo of an eagle and snake on her sagging right breast. She's sitting on some freshly vacuumed orange shag carpeting, pulling her labia apart to offer everyone the opportunity to play "Gyno." Bubba gets a warm, fuzzy feeling ... that could be ol' Evelyn, or 'ol Betty. She looks like the woman he usually ends up with at the end of the night. He unzips his pants, spits in his hands, and ...

[elmwood]

Preview, damnit!

[The Mermaid]

Originally posted by EhhMon
If its as big as it sounds, it make take a century......I'll pass! Thanks for the offer though.:o

As charming as your refusal was, I fear I would enjoy it far less than you.

Tell me what I have said to indicate what size it is. Other than the fact that I am an over 40 year old woman who thinks she need to lose weight I have given no parameters.

Younger does not necessarily mean better and older does mean inferior. What are you 14? You should work on developing a little tolerance.

[djf750]

ELMWOOD,

that was brilliant!

[EhhMon]

LOL......thats waaaaaay too much info.....elmwood

[EhhMon]

Originally posted by The Mermaid


Tell me what I have said to indicate what size it is. Other than the fact that I am an over 40 year old woman who thinks she need to lose weight I have given no parameters.



My apologies Mermaid.......I did it out of anger, I had to go back and read my original post. I didn't mean to make it sound the way it did.

The night I posted it, I hadn't slept at all day.....I was doing the PS2 thing all day and got frustrated. Surfed the internet and got a little agitated.

It sounded great to post at the time, but no sleep and frustration will make anything thing sound great.

I was in the process of going back to reply to other peoples post, when I decided to go back read what I posted.......doesnt' sound too good when you're well rested and fed (and sane).

Is there a way to delete the whole post?

[airdisc]

No way to delete the post, but you can ask a moderator to close it.

[Dryga_Yes]

heyy wait a second duder I think I found a flaw in your proposal

what if it's a cameraman buying the camera and he's going to take a photo shoot of a HOTT lesbian threesome anal xxx bondage incest jenna + gauge + nikki, yeah (fap fap fap) but the cameraman is seriously fugly so he can't buy the camera so instead he joins on in the action and your sitting at home and watching bad porn instead cuz of your stupid fucking ugly people camera ban. so yeah you're suggestion was pretty dumb, sorry g :/

phew that was a long post but I hope poeple will read it :cool:













(All that stuck-up intellectual pseudo-flaming won't do ANYTHING guys... If you really want to convince people, you have to speak their language. The more you know.)

[TyrC!]

Originally posted by John Carter of Mars
Maybe we should just have all fat, unattractive people register with the FBI. The FBI could tattoo numbers on their arms or somethin'. That way it would be easy to keep track of whose porn pictures can't be posted on the 'net. :rolleyes:

I happen to like the idea of so-called ugly people doing porn on the net. I mean ANYBODY can get standard porn with your cookie cutter blonde with huge boob job taking a load of jizz on the face! Sometimes I wanna see a 350 girl in her natural state gettin it on! Just maybe I say I wonder what a 60 yr. old lady looks like getting it up the backside? With the internet I can find out! Every year at Thanksgiving I give thanks for porn and the net!

TyrC!

[Evil Captor]

It's not just appearances that vary. I read a post recently on a bondage site's discussion page, where the site owner disclosed that she had turned down a chance to do a specialty video for a customer. His interest ... video of women sneezing. Yes, we are talking a sneeze fetish. She didn't say if it was sneezing whle in bondage or just sneezing, but it was definitely ... sneezing.

Makes bondage, smoking, pantyhose, shoe and so forth fetishes seem mundane. Still not the most obscure fetish I ever heard of ... that would be the guy looking for images of women stomping on the accelerators of cars with their BARE FEET!

Anybody doing anything will apparently turn someone on out ther, and that's kinda nice when you think about it, so long as everybody plays nice and consensual.

[apotheosis]

Originally posted by Evil Captor
His interest ... video of women sneezing. Yes, we are talking a sneeze fetish. She didn't say if it was sneezing whle in bondage or just sneezing, but it was definitely ... sneezing.
That's a new one on me, and I thought I'd heard of most of them.

Still, I guess in at least one way it sorta makes sense; speaking as a man, if you've ever had a lady sneeze...umm, during the act...it results in a body-wide muscular contraction whose effects are nothing short of mind-boggling.

Picture a blood-pressure cuff with the inflation characteristics of a driver's-side airbag, pressed into service as a prophylactic.

[Netbrian]

Originally posted by NoClueBoy
I was gonna be mundane and ask for a cite.

But, then I thought, "What [i]is[i/] the primary use of the internet?" Because I vaugely remember reading something else, that business sites outnumbered porn sites by about the year 1999. And that the most popular single use of the internet was e-mail.

But, no matter how I worded the search, I couldn't come up with anything specific. I can usually find anything I think of asking, so I'm probably not thinking too clearly this morning. Understandable, considering the quantity of wine I consumed at that little party last night. (A friend dropped me off at home, I had walked the three blocks to the party.)

But, I digress...

Can anyone help me find the actual composition of the net and it most popular uses? 'Cause I'm stuck. Maybe I'll ask in IMHO...

As for the rest of the OP: I realize it was probably tongue-in-cheek, but if it wasn't... Get mommy's credit card and buy a membership into one of those sites that are spamming daily. And for God's sake! Wash your hands!

I'd like to mention, while ignoring entirely the creator of the thread, that the likely origin of the statistic was maybe 80% of the people on the internet use it for pornography, not necessairly the primary use? Even then, I'm not sure if that sounds at all realistic, but moreso than the earlier figure.

[Angel of the Lord]

Originally posted by EhhMon
Would you choose to view a pic of a naked fat chick over a nude pic of Pamela Anderson or Jenny McCarthy............

Yes.

[ed]

[piling on the hijack]

I don't have a cite, but having worked for both a dot.com and a large scale institution's internet division, I can say that the "common wisdom" is that porn was the only type of business that made any substantial money for a long time using the internet. In other words, a very large portion of the revenue going to the major ISP's (thereby funding expansion) was generated by porn, so you could say that the early growth of the internet was funded by porn. Also, it was a pioneer in bandwidth necessity. Think about it: porn was the first high-demand, high-bandwidth application for the internet. Before webcams and VOIP and streaming and MP3's and warez and whatnot, there were kids downloading hundreds of megs of porn JPG's from a shell account. (Not me, nuh uh. Right.) This put demand on networks moreso than many other applications, which motivated ISP's to expand their networks faster to accomodate.

So it might not be statistically true, but it's possible to view the massive expanse of the Internet throughout the past 20 years as being largely motivated and funded by porn. It's a little sad, huh? I'd say that 80% now is too high; from experience I can say that gaming traffic, MP3's, and streaming crap account for a *lot* of bandwidth as well, and are usually the worst offenders on managed networks. But most people "in the business" don't like to think about what might happen if porn were stripped from the internet entirely, and not just because more of us would be bored after work.