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.
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.
Yes.
[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.