Hear me out. Personally, I find the industry of Pornography quite repulsive. The idea of the morality vs immorality of displaying sex for the entertainment of others is not what bothers me. I still think that people can look at whatever they want, and I don't have to be their morality police. I am bothered by the fact that most young women who get caught up in the industry are exploited. There is a high correlation to "porn star" and "history of sexual abuse". It is proven that a high percentage of actors in the porn industry have histories of abuse, and almost invariably they end up acting out the very things that happened to them. Few ever make any real money. Drugs and alcoholism are rampant. Careers are short. Disease is an every day job hazard. To simplify - I think that the porn industry degrades people and uses people for the purpose of profit. The simple fact remains that people will pay to see things that arouse and stimulate them. While most everybody would agree that the porn industry exploits women, the conviction alone is insufficient to overcome the desire for titillation. Thus, the demand is there, and the market will always meet the demand. It is my opinion that a new paradigm is approaching that will change the porn industry, and may well dry up the money that drives it. Recent copycats sites to the the wildly successful YOUTUBE are allowing people free access to homemade sex videos for free. People worldwide are filming themselves in sex acts, and posting the videos and pictures for the world to see. The people who post are given incentives and can "win" things, in addition to satisfying their own need to expose themselves. This assures a steady stream of contributions. I think this phenom will cripple the pay sites, and may end the porn industry. Here is why - 1. Nobody is really compensated much for their contribution, so it cost nothing to make the stuff. Porn actors do require compensating, and once that dries up, the industry can't sustain itself. 2. All posts are voluntary, so no one is (theoretically) exploited. This will make the consumer at least feel "better" about their choice to view. 3. People will see it as a "moral high ground" to shun pay sites since they can get all the porn they want for free. I see a boycott of pay site porn on the horizon. 4. Many people view porn sites as professional or scripted acting. It is a proven fact that given a choice people will choose to view "real" sex with imperfect but real participants over airbrushed models acting out sexually. 5. A simple dictionary definition of voyerism is this - "a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others." It all boils down to the fact that watching porn is voyuerism, and to some degree every normal human has some level of voyueristic tendencies. A married man may exclusively like to see his wife naked. This is morally acceptable in most societies, but by definition he is a still voyuer. The new free sites will meet this primal urge to a higher degree that a pay site ever could, because Voyuerism depends on the brain believing that what you see/hear is real. Anyway, the best proof that the porn industry is in trouble will be when they try to shut these sites down by bombing them with their own ad based clips and other spam type junk. Maybe we will all get lucky and the two competing forces will destroy each other. Then we can get back to reality, and all the computer masturbators will have to get out of the house and go meet a real human, or get marriage counseling. This is where I indent to take advantage of the new paradigm. This month only - marriage counseling, 1/2 price! Barry
