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
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.)
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?
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
