There are literally thousands and thousands of pornographic Web sites out there, most of which are updated with fresh material once a week or so. On Usenet, there are hundreds of news groups with porn image binaries, many of which get new posts every 30 seconds or so. I’m not offended by most pron, but I’m amazed by the content that’s out there; if only a small amount is making it onto even Usenet, there has to be at least 100 simultaneous porn photo shoots taking place at any given time.
Meanwhile, in the real world, there’s Paris Hilton filming her exploits with her boyfriends. Go onto Kazaa, and you’ll find hundreds of similar films; college students in dorms filming their awkward sexual encounters. One popular film online shows a well-endowed Northern Arizona State student humping a very young-looking co-ed, interrupted by a roommate who walks in and crashes on the adjacent bed. There are Web sites featuring thousands of emo girls posing in their underwear, looking to hook up with other misunderstood, emotionally and physically frail emo dudes.
When I was in college – mid-to-late 1980s – you were lucky if you saw a female student’s headlights in an air conditioned building. Now, it seems as if every other member of Generation Y is stripping – and sometimes doing more – for the camera. Is this really the case, and if so, why?
Sex is money. I saw a thing on the porn industry and you have no idea what seemingly “legit” companies are delving into the porn business. As a business man, you’d have to be crazy not to at least consider how much money is wrapped up in sex and try to grab a piece of the pie.
It’s not just for profit. It seems like there’s also a huge amount of homegrown, too. If we only see what little has been leaked to the wild, I get the impression that everybody who was born in the 1980s has filmed their sexual exploits at least once, if not been photographed nude or revealing breasts or genitalia.
“Emo” in this context is more of a look, a style: dyed hair (either jet-black or funky, unnatural colors), tattoos, piercings, pale skin, black clothes (possibly leather/latex/vinyl fetish-wear)… women and men who look like nerds or geeks or Goths or punk rockers, and not your typical tanned, blonde, fake-looking performers.
Someone who looks like [url=“http://www.artfags.org/”]this/url] (SFW), usually late teens to mid-twenties, jet black hair, skinny, and wearing square framed glasses. They seem to dominate Livejournal and friend-sharing networks like Orkut. Emo music is basically sad punk, sung with a whine. Emos tend to be music snobs; the more obscure a band, the better. Sunny Day Real Esttae, Hawthorne Heihgts, and Weezer have that whiney emo-ish sound.
Head to LiveJournal, look around, and you’ll see LOTS of half-naked Emo girls.
A lot of my female friends have posted nude or half-naked pictures to their livejournals, so I think that it is a general trend towards people being more comfortable with their sexuality and showing a little skin.
Plus, it’s a lot of money for a little work. I know some girls that display their ‘talents’ on softcore sites and make a decent amount of money. Heck, I made $60 posting pictures of me wearing more than some girls wear to the supermarket on the net.
I can’t do that. A direct download was posted on another message board, but I’m not going to link to it, directly or indirectly. The intent of the person hosting the file probably wasn’t to have those outside their online community use his bandwidth for downloads.
No, I won’t download it, make a Bittorrent and let Dopers go at it, whether the link is direct or not. Its’s not in the spirit of the SDMB rules.
Here’s a screenshot. Two-link rule. The picture goes down at midnight EST. NSFW.
In Montreal, anyway, sexuality isn’t as “dirty” as it used to be. I think it’s become more acceptable for young women to, say, work as a stripper to pay for school. Topless internet pictures or webcams are the same idea but slightly more anonymous. I mean, nobody’s going to drool on you and grope at your ass from across the monitor.
I don’t know much about porn, though, and I can’t comment on the alleged increase of amateur stuff out there. Isn’t it possible, though, that some of the videos making their way online weren’t originally supposed to be seen? Sort of a private-use video that someone decided to put online to make a buck?
