I am a grad student from India. I love the porn industry here. Now that the high is gone, I started thinking.
India has a healthy porn industry. Thats understandable because premarital sex is uncommon. So, bachelors need er… release.
Thats not true for the USA. Women here are liberated and premarital sex is the norm. If a guy wants sex, all he needs to do is go to a bar and he will eventually find a sexed up girl. He doesnt need porn.
so, my question: Why is the American Porn industry so big?
There were no surreptious insults implied or meant.
Thanks.
No insults? Sure, no problem. As your resident Dutchman, let me explain.
Most Americans are too ugly to get hooked up with one of these drunk bar women. Really!
Which is why the Dutch porn industry is relatively small, if not non-existent.
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This is the part where I duck and run, right?
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skarpallu: We’re Americans, babe; we want it all.
Coldfire: Have you been taking lessons from Brit lately?
Yeah? Well if it’s so big, where is all the free baseball porn on the internet? Huh?
(Did I just say that out loud?)
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If you don’t want to put up with the give and take of a real human relationship, you can always indulge in a porn fantasy about lesbian anal dildo bondage. 
You say I’m blind, I say you’re hallucinating.
Porn, like everything else, is done bigger and better in the States.
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We also have crack, child abuse, drunk driving and… we eat a helluva lot of cows.
The porno industry is a very tiny, insignificant part of american society.
Im sure Brian is going to step in here & correct me.
Whatta ya gonna watch when you bring that sexed up bar woman home? Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
**HEY!!**Lesbian anal dildo bondage is every red-blooded American’s god-given right!
(Is this the point where I should tell about the sex shop here in lovely midtown manhattan that had neon signs on either side of the door – presumably to cover the porn spectrum – with inadvertently funny porn juxtapositions?
One was “Amateur European Bondage Magazines” (“Oh Lars, take me now!” “Wait, Helga, I have to turn to page 75 to see how to untie this knot!”)
The other was “Oriental Lesbian Rubber Goods,” which brought to my mind the world’s smallest double-dong.
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Skarpallu,
You’re question implies that the only reason people rent porn and masturbate is if they can’t get sex. That’s just not always true. I have a healthy sexual relationship with my live-in lover, and I still watch porn. I think if I had 100 beautiful and willing men and women who had nothing better to do than have sex with me any time I wanted it, I’d still masturbate sometimes. Fantasy is just different from reality, and sometimes you just get in a fantasy mood.
Then again, I’m not really your stereotypical American male I’m afraid.
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Skarpallu–you’ve got to take me to these bars you’re talking about, cos I never found any like you’ve described when I was single.
Also, I agree with the other posters that point out pornography is not just for lonely, single, horny people. I am married and my wife and I occassionally watch adult films.
It’s my duty; my duty as a complete and utter bastard.–Arnold J. Rimmer.