Not really. First of all, I deal exclusively in vintage imagry. As far back as 1860, and nothing after 1975. Most of it is 40’s-50’s cheescake. So therefore I’m not shoulder to shoulder with porn queens.
Secondly, porn is pretty much like any other business. It’s just a business. It’s funny sometimes when my fiance will look up from sorting through stacks of pictures of naked women and sexual activity and say “helluva job, but somebody’s gotta do it.” And we went to a convention once, that was just as tacky and lame as any business convention you’ve ever seen, except for the pnuematic babes and the hardcore video.
It’s really not all that interesting. And for my money, modern porn seriously sucks. ALl the women look the same and like plastic, and no one looks like they’re really enjoying themselves. And there is certianly no aesthetic pleasure in it. The older stuff is just more appealing on every level.
[[However, cher3 started by saying ‘all internet sites that are selling access to
pornography being REQUIRED to have a single internet address code (.porn or something)’. That does not sound like volunteering. That sounds like third-party monitoring.]]
Oops. I did write that, didn’t I? Please put it down to poor editing of my post on my part. Getting into the whole mess of trying to define or regulate pornography was the last thing on my mind.
What I had in mind was more in the nature of an “adult” bookstore. When you go there it is assumed that porn is what you want, and it is all tidily collected in one place for you.
Clearly, the internet has made porn more easily available to people who would feel very uncomfortable going to an adult bookstore, and I don’t have a problem with that. I would just be in favor of putting it a few more keystrokes away. Maybe what we really need is better search engines–ones that can tell the difference between a '69 Corvette and what might go on in the backseat of one on a hot summer night. (Afficionados, please excuse me if Corvettes don’t have backseats.)
I hate to say it, but I see any such scheme of forcing (or “voluntarily” shoe-horning) porn sites into any type of designated “area” of the web would be immediately and successfully challenged in court as violation of their 1st amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution. And rightfully so, imho. I still say the best porn filter is a thoughtful adult hovering with a finger on the kill switch.
At one time, weren’t three-fourths of all online businesses porn sites? What percentage are they now? -I read an article somewhere that noted how the proliferation of porn sites has driven the expansion of the internet. Same also noted that games are driving much of PC/software advancements, 3-D games being the most common, most demanding use of PCs. - MC
The idea of having a sex industry internet address has been promoted from inside the sex business. The problem with implementing it is that most internet providers don’t want it. Most providers attempt to shield themselves from protest and legal troubles by stating they are neutral carriers and have no control of content. If there was a single address that exclusively carried porno sites, they would be pressured to issue a blanket ban on all those sites. This is essentially want happened with the “voluntary” movie ratings. Many theatres and advertisers have a total ban on X or NC-17 rated films.
Maybe a bit of an extreme analogy - but would it have been more acceptable if the Nazis had “asked politely” when they ordered Jews to sew yellow Stars of David on their clothes?
Censors and fascists never tire of inventing new ways to cut the offenders from the herd. We finally have a medium where their little brainstorms don’t work, but their tiny minds still want to impose their “community standards” on a global scale.
Stoidela, do you deal in Varga Girls stuff, or is that too mainstream?
Also, my dad is a mechanical engineer who works on steam and nuclear power plants and they had a big chuckle at work when they were trying to find internet information on pipe fittings and typed in “Heavy hangers” without thinking about it first.
I wondered how long it would be before someone called me a Nazi. It actually took longer than I thought, and there were quite a few thoughtful answers to my question in the interim.
Yeah, it was a bit outlandish. I’ll try to steer it back on track.
I don’t think a .xxx/.porn label on a website is comparable to an X rating on a movie or an adult section of a bookstore/videostore. All those involve people being seen in that section or at that movie. Just try asking people offhand if they’ve every been into the local XXX video store and watch them get all uncomfortable
So many people are incredibly embarrassed and paranoid about that kind of thing, even if the material is very appealing to them. These same people wouldn’t have nearly the same difficulty with a site at home - who’s gonna see it but them?
