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XXX: Is the Porn Industry Doomed?
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We all know that plunging home values and decimated 401(k)s are among the effects of the recession. But what about depleted sex drives? "People are too depressed to be sexually active," Hustler publisher Larry Flynt said in a January statement asking Congress for a $5 billion bailout of the adult industry. "This is very unhealthy as a nation. Americans can do without cars and such, but they cannot do without sex."
Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis, who is more likely to need bail than a bailout, told Hollywood gossip site TMZ that unlike spoiled, private-jet-riding auto executives, he would drive to Congress "in a white Prius" to ask for financial support for the porn industry. He could barely conceal his smirk.
But in a time of economic crisis, lawmakers are more likely to give the porn industry grief than gratitude. Legislators in California, New York, Florida, Texas, and Washington state recently proposed stemming budget losses through various skin tariffs, ranging from a Magnum-sized 25 percent sales tax on X-rated movies to a $5 "pole tax" on visits to strip clubs.
Thanks to the First Amendment, such measures are usually defeated by little more than gales of laughter. But Diane Duke, executive director of the Free Speech Coalition and the adult industry's only registered national lobbyist, isn't sniggering. "The state of the adult industry is not a joke," Duke tells me. Indeed. Like mainstream-media companies, the producers of pornographic films and magazines are threatened by piracy, and, above all, by free Internet content. In economic terms, porn consumption is "elastic" and thus a poor candidate for raising revenues via taxes: If it costs an extra $5 to rent a smutty DVD, a consumer is likely to stay home and turn off Google's SafeSearch filter.
So what's really behind recession-era finger wagging at porn producers? Probably just plain vanilla politics. Senate Republicans got hot under the collar when President Barack Obama appointed noted litigator David Ogden to the Justice Department's No. 2 post, deputy attorney general. Armed with a briefing prepared by Fidelis, a Catholic "family values" political action committee, Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah decried Ogden's representation, in his private practice, of the American Civil Liberties Union, Playboy Enterprises, Penthouse, and even the scandalous American Library Association.
Guilty as charged. In 1986 and 1990, Ogden successfully required the Library of Congress to translate Playboy articles into Braille. In 2000, he argued against provisions of the Children Internet Protection Act that required libraries to censor pornographic online content. (In case you were wondering, according to Fidelis, Ogden is also a supporter of interpreting the Constitution according to "the latest fad of the intelligentsia." You know, because free speech is just a trend.) At Ogden's confirmation hearing, Hatch spat, "The pornography industry is excited about Mr. Ogden's nomination." That, it seems, is true. Diane Duke describes Ogden, who was confirmed on March 12, as a champion of her industry. "Everyone was calling me asking, 'What do you think about this?!'" Duke says of the Ogden hearings. "If someone [like Ogden] has a genuine respect for the integrity of the Constitution, that's who we should have in government, in all of our offices."
The porn industry used to be represented on Capitol Hill by the Raben Group, a powerful Democratic lobbying firm headed by Robert Raben, a former aide to Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the first openly gay member of Congress. But as Raben took on a glut of new clients in the wake of the Democratic gains of 2006 and 2008, the Free Speech Coalition and Raben Group parted ways. "We've grown up. We're ready to take lobbying on ourselves," Duke says. In the past, the Free Speech Coalition pressured Congress to act against creating a dedicated .xxx Internet address for pornography and in favor of allowing the sale of Penthouse and Playboy on military bases. Both efforts were successful.
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Posted by: strahlungsamt on May 15, 2009 12:22 AM
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Thanks to the Internet I can download all the free porn I want. If I want to back it up, I can put it all on one DVDR for about $1. Same goes for music and movies. Whenever I hear about a new movie that I like, I type in into the pirate bay, and voila, next morning I have the movie.
Yet the music/video/porn industries still demand $20 per video or dvd, for what? Some extra plastic? A paper insert? Back in the days of vinyl, an album was a nice keepsake. It was large with clear pictures and all the lyrics. Sorry but a microscopic cd insert doesn't cut it anymore.
Plus, I live in Ireland. Surrounded by cultural troglodites, finding anything besides football videos or action movies less than 5 years old is impossible. (unless you don't mind paying 30 euros for a dvd)
As for porn, what's on the shelves here is just plain boring.
If the music/video/porn industries want to compete, they need to offer 100 albums/movies on a disk and sell it for less than $5. Let's say, all the Beatles hits in mp3 format. I might just buy that.
Until then, it's back to downloading for me.
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» You're probably in the business of selling the stuff.
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» BitTorrent? YUCK!!!!
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» Oh Please!
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» Porn industry dying? I can't say I'd miss it.
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Posted by: cordas on May 15, 2009 12:23 AM
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Posted by: Honky the Nihilist VI on May 15, 2009 12:44 AM
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If you'll excuse me, I need to get back to my 3some with the bisexual 18 year olds.
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» RE: Porn will evolve.
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» We need good raunchy lesbian hard core porn
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Posted by: bryangalt on May 15, 2009 1:46 AM
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What was the stimulus that got them going in the first place? Well, in many cases it was probably a six-pack. Of course, men get their engines humming at the slightest thought of sex, but watching it in a graphic, wonderful detail can move them from a hum to a roar of desire.
Since women aren't quite as visually stimulated as men, this can lead to a problem, hence the six-packs.
Why so many puritans still exist in our society I will never understand. Do they believe they were hatched and that their parents never enjoyed getting down and dirty on a Saturday night...on the kitchen counter? and twice on the sofa?
Sex, like so many other things that humans enjoy yet go to such great lengths to stigmatize and dramatize (such as drugs, free speech and harmonious living) is just further proof of the ridiculous pressure we put on ourselves for ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD REASON.
Frankly, I encourage everyone I know to get it while they can, and to enjoy it while it lasts and don't ask or worry what others may think--the only one that you need to worry about is the one who's satisfaction is depending on your skills--something that requires practice if you ever want to become a Pro!
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Posted by: Non-Compassionate Liberal on May 15, 2009 3:56 AM
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Posted by: weathered on May 15, 2009 4:08 AM
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The only gratification is for the scum who produce & distribute it because $$ is their drug of choice. Enjoy
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Posted by: Q30 on May 15, 2009 4:26 AM
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Me: How does it do that?
Alternet feminist: IT CAUSES VIOLENCE BY CAUSING VIOLENCE!!11!!1
Me: Where's the evidence?
Alternet feminist: WOMAN-HATER!!!11!!
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» "but not all feminists think this way..."
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Posted by: villager1 on May 15, 2009 5:08 AM
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Posted by: David'Z RantZ on May 15, 2009 5:44 AM
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Anyone who didn't realize that the request for a "bailout" was a joke from day one -- and there were far too many who did not catch on -- was fairly clueless.
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Posted by: Daito on May 15, 2009 6:05 AM
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» Other couples that uploaded their home videos. Porn's doomed!
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Posted by: Beck on May 15, 2009 6:05 AM
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Posted by: xvictor on May 15, 2009 6:05 AM
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Despite the strident squeals of free speech haters, Porn will be with us for at least several thousand years more.
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Posted by: GoKanuks on May 15, 2009 6:09 AM
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RT
Is your ISP watching?
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Posted by: AMERICAN VETERAN on May 15, 2009 6:13 AM
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That we will now be able to actually FEEL those breasts??!!
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» Only the articles
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Posted by: SteveO on May 15, 2009 6:38 AM
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Porn has been the single biggest money maker on the web since the web's inception. Many of the things we take for granted like high bandwidth connections and video players were the result of the porn industry. Just think, if it weren't for the smut dealers we might still be using 56k dialups.
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Posted by: davmills on May 15, 2009 6:39 AM
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To where? According to Wikipedia, California is the only state that legally allows adult-industry filming. If done elsewhere, porn producers could be arrested for "pandering."
And as for wearing condoms, actors/performers in the the adult industry in France (e.g. Marc Dorcel) do so, and visually it makes little difference. Then again, the French are better at sex than are many others.
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Posted by: whyroger on May 15, 2009 7:29 AM
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This is why they have not supported any of the anti-piracy efforts in any state, especially California where the largest portion of the industry resides.
Now that Ms. Duke, the Director of Free Speech Coalition, is a bona fide national lobbyist (doesn't that require at least a little more than one day waking up and deciding to be one?), I'm sure they will continue ignoring piracy crimes against their membership.
Why does the porn industry choose to be represented by a wolf in sheeps clothing?
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Posted by: Quist on May 15, 2009 8:14 AM
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The porn issue is just noise, especially when we start to examine all of the real issues that we need to deal with...our economic system, our government, individual freedom, our environment, our survival, and our health.
How much affect does porn actually have upon our society...seriously? As far as violence is concerned, maybe we should be discussing the real issues...torture, war, terrorism, crime, inequality, ignorance, fundamentalism, greed, gluttony, overpopulation (population density and footprint), fascism, mental health disorders, and violent cultures and media.
Can we please stop with the stupidity...please.
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» It got your attention - we deal with all those issues
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» RE: Then what is the real issue about porn???
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» Uh...lemme see...the First Amendment? Freedom? Life, liberty, etc.
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» RE: ...but UnEasyOne you have discussed nothing here yourself.
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» Sez you
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Posted by: Soilwork on May 15, 2009 11:41 AM
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What's funniest, however, is that the publicity stunt is being used as a basis for in-depth articles about how the porn industry is hurting.
Flint even said it was a joke.. that he's making 400 billion per year.. that he didn't really need a bail out.. and still people hold it up as a sign that people are turning away from porn.
Trust me, people, the porn industry isn't hurting and if you're dense enough to fall for that Larry Flint publicity stunt, you really need to shake yourself.
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Posted by: symcokid on May 15, 2009 11:42 AM
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» RE: Porn's never going to die unfortunately...
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» "You want porn to end, then stop the demand for it." Really? No Kidding?
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Posted by: JefffromCA on May 15, 2009 12:06 PM
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Posted by: sureshot45 on May 15, 2009 12:16 PM
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you have to go somehwere else for that. i know its off topic..obviously porn is not going anywhere. its everywhere. it has taken over historically great places and turned it into girls gone wild. not just new orleans either. lots of cities, bars, clubs, discos, whatever have been bought by owners who cater to porn enthusiasts. that is where the $$ still is.
the porn industry which used to be somewhat elusive and viewed in the privacy of your best friends older brothers room..is now a plain part of our culture. women getting waxed all kinds of ways to resemble porn stars, breast implants, penile implants, sex pills...its all related to the porn industry and the affect it has had on all of us.
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Posted by: zooeyhall on May 15, 2009 1:45 PM
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As a personal connosieur of porn, all my life in fact, it has NOT turned me into some sort of woman hating violence-prone misfit. If anything, it has made more appreciative and responsive to the opposite sex. Contrast that with many of the regular church-going types--with their misogyny and horror of sex. And their allies in the feminist movement.
So please spare me the crap in this article. Better to enjoy the fantasy then to experience the reality.
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Posted by: margwa on May 15, 2009 4:49 PM
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There are no longer even pathetic plot-lines you can laugh at while your revving up the engines. (Okay, some but not many...)
Geez, Flynt - thanks for taking all of the fun out of porn!
p.s. I do consider myself a feminist too. Not all feminists are anti-porn. But this one is anti-boring-porn!
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» It's pretty much a matter of taste
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Posted by: sasha40 on May 16, 2009 11:29 AM
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All media companies are in the same boat- people can now be the masters of their own entertainment destinies with instant access to several hundred million potential viewers/consumers.
From music to television to porn- amateurs and independents are slowly but surely taking over via the Internet. Just as the demise of the "music industry" will not lead to the disappearance of music, neither will the demise of the porn industry be the end of porn. As humans, we are fascinated by our own behavior. As long as we are still capable of self-expression, we will have porn. But it will be nice, I think, to have less corporate porn, less rigid ideas of feminine beauty and more creativity and fun in the stories. If porn means watching partially inflated fembots being degraded and abused, or even just being robotically humped, I certainly won't ever have any use for it.
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» Porn will wither and die
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Posted by: mindtrvlr on May 16, 2009 7:58 PM
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Posted by: Walks-in-Storms on May 17, 2009 8:59 AM
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Feminism made no bones about its desire to puerile-ize men, to turn them into (effeminate) boys. Part and parcel of that was the need to remove male manners and behavior, codes of conduct, and all that John Wayne-ish sort of thing. Men, rebuffed everywhere in the courtly manners toward women - behavior demanded traditionally of young men by older men - began behaving like adolescent boors. Everywhere, men were seen eating at table wearing their hat (often a greasy, odiferous, cowpie of a thing), barging through doors ahead of women, remaining seated when a lady approached, and a dozen things more reprehensible to traditional males.
And like the adolescent male suddenly aware of his genitals, he played with his sexuality. Erstwhile snickering at every mention of sex, the sex act, and the "private parts" now became obsession with pornography.
Like those all but un-educated in music while newly possessed of "spending money" suddenly began making miserable excuses for musicians and entertainment popular and rich, the adolescent male, inexperienced and largely ignorant of either the female and/or sex began making pornographers rich. Too ignorant of the female, and therefore largely afraid the blow to his nascent masculinity that in his puerile mind rejection would mean, to simply ask for sex, he sought sublimation of his sex drive elsewhere.
Why the hell anyone would rather watch (often at considerable expense) what he could so easily do is a question answerable only by psychology and behaviorists who study abnormal behavior.
Pornography dead? Yeah, sure - when guys start rising and taking off their hat when a lady approaches.
"A state that dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can be accomplished; and that the perfection of the machinery to which it has sacrificed everything will in the end avail it nothing, for want of the vital power which, in order that the machine might work more smoothly, it has preferred to banish."
Be careful what you wish for; you might get it. You wanted - you demanded - this little wimp, girls - you got him.
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Posted by: tremonisha on May 18, 2009 8:35 AM
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Now, though, there are thousands if not millions of alternatives -- on the internet, in the form of 'zines, on reader-submitted sex story archives -- that reflect what Americans really want out of porn; and the stale corporate product produced by the Porn Industry is dying like it should. Their product was never any good. Now their sales numbers are finally reflecting that.
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» Yea, if porn is so popular...
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» RE: PORN USED TO BE A WAY FOR A GREAT-LOOKING WOMAN TO MAKE BIG BUCKS FAST
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Posted by: hateorlove on May 21, 2009 8:42 AM
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Posted by: joeocho88 on May 23, 2009 2:41 PM
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greedy, corrupt employers putting American worker out on the street so they can exploit the dirt cheap labor and LACK of EMPLOYEE PAYROLL TAXES and ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS and easy to bribe governments in THIRD WORLD BANANA REPUBLIC HELL kinds of places...
HUGE BLOATED COCKROACHES LIKE BERNARD MADOFF STEALING BILLIONS TO FINANCE A LUXURIOUS LIFESTYLE AND WE HAVE TO WONDER HOW MANY OTHER CRIMINALS OUT THERE JUST LIKE HIM ARE STILL ON THE LOOSE AND STILL STEALING PEOPLE'S RETIREMENT AND PENSION PLANS AND DONATIONS CONTRIBUTED TO THE MANY CHARITIES THAT INVESTED WITH MADOFF! PRISON IS TOO GOOD FOR THIS FAT,SLICK BASTARD!
A FAKE WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST STARTED UNDER FALSE PRETENSES LIKE THE VIETNAM WAS STARTED WITH THAT FAKE GULF OF TONKIN INCIDENT, IF we had care about Saddam Hussein and human rights abuse, why didn't George HW Bush take him out during Desert Storm? WHY DID THEY WAIT UNTIL AFTER CHENEY HAD THE CONFERENCE WITH THE BIG OIL MEN AND THEN 911 SUDDENLY HAPPENED PROVIDING US WITH THE HALF ASS EXCUSE TO GO TO WAR IN AFGHANISTAN --- BUT WE ENDED UP IN IRAQ INSTEAD??? THEN IT WAS WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND THAT LIE DIDN'T WASH EITHER. WE WERE PROMISED WE WOULD GET OIL FROM IRAQ AND IT WOULD MAKE THE OIL PRICES LOWER. IT DIDN'T. WE GOT GOUGED MORE THAN EVER. NOT TO MENTION ALL OF THE INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO DIED IN THAT INVASION!
NOW WE HAVE TO PROTECT THE POPPY FIELDS IN AFGHANISTAN SO THE NEW WORLD ORDER CAN CONTINUE TO ENRICH THEMSELVES BY SELLING NARCOTICS JUST LIKE THE ORIGINAL VIETNAM WAS WAS FOUGHT TO KEEP THE HEROIN MOVING OUT OF THE BURMA TRIANGLE. Man, don't you people EVER learn from HISTORY???
And so far THE STIMULUS MONEY THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO HELP THE SUFFERING UNEMPLOYED AMERICAN WORKERS WENT TO THE ELITE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY CRONIES INSTEAD!!! AND PEOPLE ARE STILL AFRAID THEY WILL LOSE EVERYTHING THAT MEANT ANYTHING TO THEM! MORE HOMELESS IN THE STREETS! THIS IS OBSCENE!
IN TEXAS, THE STIMULUS MONEY IS NOT GOING TO GO TO THOSE SORRY PART -TIME WORKERS. IT IS GOING TO HELP RESTORE THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION THAT SOME RICH WHITE YOUNG MAN BURNED IN A PIQUE OF RAGE BECAUSE WHATEVER IT WAS HE FELT HE WAS ENTITLED TO HE APPARENTLY DID NOT GET!
We elected a PRESIDENT THE ENTIRE COUNTRY FELL IN LOVE WITH ORIGINALLY -- BECAUSE HE PROMISED HOPE AND CHANGE BUT INSTEAD, IT LOOKS LIKE HE JUST PICKED UP WHERE THE CHENEY-BUSH-CLINTON ALLIANCE LEFT OFF... WE WERE FOOLED AGAIN. People forget that John F. Kennedy, the elitist son of privilege was destined to be a one-term President because he messed up where it counts the most THE DOMESTIC ECONOMY! Never mind that the Bay of Pigs fiasco angered the CIA, the Mafia who lost billions in their Cuban investments as well as others... The VOTERS would have removed Kennedy from office LEGALLY!So I don't know why he was assassinated. Stupid thing to do.
PRESIDENT OBAMA has often been compared to Kennedy. On his mother's side of the family, he is related to elite Northeastern dynasties as well so he is NOT the OUTSIDER he is portrayed. He and Kennedy were both products of HARVARD! Obama's father was Kenyan ROYALITY insofar as there IS African Royalty and a Muslim and President Obama was raised as a Muslim.
I was willing to forget all this if he could just save our country from the ECONOMIC SUICIDE that began with Carter's regime --given a respite by REAGAN and then pushed into the downhill spiral by NIXON's former henchmen. I began to realize that it was just one Party of ELITES with different labels.
NOW THIS IS SOME REAL OBSCENITY.
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Posted by: joeocho88 on May 23, 2009 3:44 PM
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Jobs are dropping in this country like autumn leaves and YOUR JOB COULD BE NEXT!
I was made homeless in the 2001 Recession and just when I got out of it, ALONG COMES THE 2008 RECESSION!
They used to come in 10 year cycles but now they are coming closer together.
EVERY ABLE-BODIED AMERICAN WHO WANTS A JOB AND WANTS TO WORK FOR THEIR MONEY SHOULD HAVE A JOB!
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Posted by: strahlungsamt on May 15, 2009 12:22 AM
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Thanks to the Internet I can download all the free porn I want. If I want to back it up, I can put it all on one DVDR for about $1. Same goes for music and movies. Whenever I hear about a new movie that I like, I type in into the pirate bay, and voila, next morning I have the movie.
Yet the music/video/porn industries still demand $20 per video or dvd, for what? Some extra plastic? A paper insert? Back in the days of vinyl, an album was a nice keepsake. It was large with clear pictures and all the lyrics. Sorry but a microscopic cd insert doesn't cut it anymore.
Plus, I live in Ireland. Surrounded by cultural troglodites, finding anything besides football videos or action movies less than 5 years old is impossible. (unless you don't mind paying 30 euros for a dvd)
As for porn, what's on the shelves here is just plain boring.
If the music/video/porn industries want to compete, they need to offer 100 albums/movies on a disk and sell it for less than $5. Let's say, all the Beatles hits in mp3 format. I might just buy that.
Until then, it's back to downloading for me.
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Posted by: Honky the Nihilist VI on May 15, 2009 12:44 AM
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If you'll excuse me, I need to get back to my 3some with the bisexual 18 year olds.
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Posted by: bryangalt on May 15, 2009 1:46 AM
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What was the stimulus that got them going in the first place? Well, in many cases it was probably a six-pack. Of course, men get their engines humming at the slightest thought of sex, but watching it in a graphic, wonderful detail can move them from a hum to a roar of desire.
Since women aren't quite as visually stimulated as men, this can lead to a problem, hence the six-packs.
Why so many puritans still exist in our society I will never understand. Do they believe they were hatched and that their parents never enjoyed getting down and dirty on a Saturday night...on the kitchen counter? and twice on the sofa?
Sex, like so many other things that humans enjoy yet go to such great lengths to stigmatize and dramatize (such as drugs, free speech and harmonious living) is just further proof of the ridiculous pressure we put on ourselves for ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD REASON.
Frankly, I encourage everyone I know to get it while they can, and to enjoy it while it lasts and don't ask or worry what others may think--the only one that you need to worry about is the one who's satisfaction is depending on your skills--something that requires practice if you ever want to become a Pro!
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Posted by: weathered on May 15, 2009 4:08 AM
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The only gratification is for the scum who produce & distribute it because $$ is their drug of choice. Enjoy
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Posted by: Q30 on May 15, 2009 4:26 AM
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Me: How does it do that?
Alternet feminist: IT CAUSES VIOLENCE BY CAUSING VIOLENCE!!11!!1
Me: Where's the evidence?
Alternet feminist: WOMAN-HATER!!!11!!
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Posted by: David'Z RantZ on May 15, 2009 5:44 AM
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Anyone who didn't realize that the request for a "bailout" was a joke from day one -- and there were far too many who did not catch on -- was fairly clueless.
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» Other couples that uploaded their home videos. Porn's doomed!
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Posted by: xvictor on May 15, 2009 6:05 AM
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Despite the strident squeals of free speech haters, Porn will be with us for at least several thousand years more.
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Posted by: GoKanuks on May 15, 2009 6:09 AM
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RT
Is your ISP watching?
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Posted by: AMERICAN VETERAN on May 15, 2009 6:13 AM
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That we will now be able to actually FEEL those breasts??!!
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» Only the articles
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Posted by: SteveO on May 15, 2009 6:38 AM
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Porn has been the single biggest money maker on the web since the web's inception. Many of the things we take for granted like high bandwidth connections and video players were the result of the porn industry. Just think, if it weren't for the smut dealers we might still be using 56k dialups.
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Posted by: davmills on May 15, 2009 6:39 AM
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To where? According to Wikipedia, California is the only state that legally allows adult-industry filming. If done elsewhere, porn producers could be arrested for "pandering."
And as for wearing condoms, actors/performers in the the adult industry in France (e.g. Marc Dorcel) do so, and visually it makes little difference. Then again, the French are better at sex than are many others.
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Posted by: whyroger on May 15, 2009 7:29 AM
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This is why they have not supported any of the anti-piracy efforts in any state, especially California where the largest portion of the industry resides.
Now that Ms. Duke, the Director of Free Speech Coalition, is a bona fide national lobbyist (doesn't that require at least a little more than one day waking up and deciding to be one?), I'm sure they will continue ignoring piracy crimes against their membership.
Why does the porn industry choose to be represented by a wolf in sheeps clothing?
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Posted by: Quist on May 15, 2009 8:14 AM
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The porn issue is just noise, especially when we start to examine all of the real issues that we need to deal with...our economic system, our government, individual freedom, our environment, our survival, and our health.
How much affect does porn actually have upon our society...seriously? As far as violence is concerned, maybe we should be discussing the real issues...torture, war, terrorism, crime, inequality, ignorance, fundamentalism, greed, gluttony, overpopulation (population density and footprint), fascism, mental health disorders, and violent cultures and media.
Can we please stop with the stupidity...please.
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» Uh...lemme see...the First Amendment? Freedom? Life, liberty, etc.
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Posted by: Soilwork on May 15, 2009 11:41 AM
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What's funniest, however, is that the publicity stunt is being used as a basis for in-depth articles about how the porn industry is hurting.
Flint even said it was a joke.. that he's making 400 billion per year.. that he didn't really need a bail out.. and still people hold it up as a sign that people are turning away from porn.
Trust me, people, the porn industry isn't hurting and if you're dense enough to fall for that Larry Flint publicity stunt, you really need to shake yourself.
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Posted by: sureshot45 on May 15, 2009 12:16 PM
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you have to go somehwere else for that. i know its off topic..obviously porn is not going anywhere. its everywhere. it has taken over historically great places and turned it into girls gone wild. not just new orleans either. lots of cities, bars, clubs, discos, whatever have been bought by owners who cater to porn enthusiasts. that is where the $$ still is.
the porn industry which used to be somewhat elusive and viewed in the privacy of your best friends older brothers room..is now a plain part of our culture. women getting waxed all kinds of ways to resemble porn stars, breast implants, penile implants, sex pills...its all related to the porn industry and the affect it has had on all of us.
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Posted by: zooeyhall on May 15, 2009 1:45 PM
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As a personal connosieur of porn, all my life in fact, it has NOT turned me into some sort of woman hating violence-prone misfit. If anything, it has made more appreciative and responsive to the opposite sex. Contrast that with many of the regular church-going types--with their misogyny and horror of sex. And their allies in the feminist movement.
So please spare me the crap in this article. Better to enjoy the fantasy then to experience the reality.
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Posted by: margwa on May 15, 2009 4:49 PM
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There are no longer even pathetic plot-lines you can laugh at while your revving up the engines. (Okay, some but not many...)
Geez, Flynt - thanks for taking all of the fun out of porn!
p.s. I do consider myself a feminist too. Not all feminists are anti-porn. But this one is anti-boring-porn!
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Posted by: sasha40 on May 16, 2009 11:29 AM
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All media companies are in the same boat- people can now be the masters of their own entertainment destinies with instant access to several hundred million potential viewers/consumers.
From music to television to porn- amateurs and independents are slowly but surely taking over via the Internet. Just as the demise of the "music industry" will not lead to the disappearance of music, neither will the demise of the porn industry be the end of porn. As humans, we are fascinated by our own behavior. As long as we are still capable of self-expression, we will have porn. But it will be nice, I think, to have less corporate porn, less rigid ideas of feminine beauty and more creativity and fun in the stories. If porn means watching partially inflated fembots being degraded and abused, or even just being robotically humped, I certainly won't ever have any use for it.
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Posted by: Walks-in-Storms on May 17, 2009 8:59 AM
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Feminism made no bones about its desire to puerile-ize men, to turn them into (effeminate) boys. Part and parcel of that was the need to remove male manners and behavior, codes of conduct, and all that John Wayne-ish sort of thing. Men, rebuffed everywhere in the courtly manners toward women - behavior demanded traditionally of young men by older men - began behaving like adolescent boors. Everywhere, men were seen eating at table wearing their hat (often a greasy, odiferous, cowpie of a thing), barging through doors ahead of women, remaining seated when a lady approached, and a dozen things more reprehensible to traditional males.
And like the adolescent male suddenly aware of his genitals, he played with his sexuality. Erstwhile snickering at every mention of sex, the sex act, and the "private parts" now became obsession with pornography.
Like those all but un-educated in music while newly possessed of "spending money" suddenly began making miserable excuses for musicians and entertainment popular and rich, the adolescent male, inexperienced and largely ignorant of either the female and/or sex began making pornographers rich. Too ignorant of the female, and therefore largely afraid the blow to his nascent masculinity that in his puerile mind rejection would mean, to simply ask for sex, he sought sublimation of his sex drive elsewhere.
Why the hell anyone would rather watch (often at considerable expense) what he could so easily do is a question answerable only by psychology and behaviorists who study abnormal behavior.
Pornography dead? Yeah, sure - when guys start rising and taking off their hat when a lady approaches.
"A state that dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can be accomplished; and that the perfection of the machinery to which it has sacrificed everything will in the end avail it nothing, for want of the vital power which, in order that the machine might work more smoothly, it has preferred to banish."
Be careful what you wish for; you might get it. You wanted - you demanded - this little wimp, girls - you got him.
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Posted by: tremonisha on May 18, 2009 8:35 AM
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Now, though, there are thousands if not millions of alternatives -- on the internet, in the form of 'zines, on reader-submitted sex story archives -- that reflect what Americans really want out of porn; and the stale corporate product produced by the Porn Industry is dying like it should. Their product was never any good. Now their sales numbers are finally reflecting that.
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Posted by: hateorlove on May 21, 2009 8:42 AM
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Posted by: joeocho88 on May 23, 2009 2:41 PM
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greedy, corrupt employers putting American worker out on the street so they can exploit the dirt cheap labor and LACK of EMPLOYEE PAYROLL TAXES and ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS and easy to bribe governments in THIRD WORLD BANANA REPUBLIC HELL kinds of places...
HUGE BLOATED COCKROACHES LIKE BERNARD MADOFF STEALING BILLIONS TO FINANCE A LUXURIOUS LIFESTYLE AND WE HAVE TO WONDER HOW MANY OTHER CRIMINALS OUT THERE JUST LIKE HIM ARE STILL ON THE LOOSE AND STILL STEALING PEOPLE'S RETIREMENT AND PENSION PLANS AND DONATIONS CONTRIBUTED TO THE MANY CHARITIES THAT INVESTED WITH MADOFF! PRISON IS TOO GOOD FOR THIS FAT,SLICK BASTARD!
A FAKE WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST STARTED UNDER FALSE PRETENSES LIKE THE VIETNAM WAS STARTED WITH THAT FAKE GULF OF TONKIN INCIDENT, IF we had care about Saddam Hussein and human rights abuse, why didn't George HW Bush take him out during Desert Storm? WHY DID THEY WAIT UNTIL AFTER CHENEY HAD THE CONFERENCE WITH THE BIG OIL MEN AND THEN 911 SUDDENLY HAPPENED PROVIDING US WITH THE HALF ASS EXCUSE TO GO TO WAR IN AFGHANISTAN --- BUT WE ENDED UP IN IRAQ INSTEAD??? THEN IT WAS WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND THAT LIE DIDN'T WASH EITHER. WE WERE PROMISED WE WOULD GET OIL FROM IRAQ AND IT WOULD MAKE THE OIL PRICES LOWER. IT DIDN'T. WE GOT GOUGED MORE THAN EVER. NOT TO MENTION ALL OF THE INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO DIED IN THAT INVASION!
NOW WE HAVE TO PROTECT THE POPPY FIELDS IN AFGHANISTAN SO THE NEW WORLD ORDER CAN CONTINUE TO ENRICH THEMSELVES BY SELLING NARCOTICS JUST LIKE THE ORIGINAL VIETNAM WAS WAS FOUGHT TO KEEP THE HEROIN MOVING OUT OF THE BURMA TRIANGLE. Man, don't you people EVER learn from HISTORY???
And so far THE STIMULUS MONEY THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO HELP THE SUFFERING UNEMPLOYED AMERICAN WORKERS WENT TO THE ELITE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY CRONIES INSTEAD!!! AND PEOPLE ARE STILL AFRAID THEY WILL LOSE EVERYTHING THAT MEANT ANYTHING TO THEM! MORE HOMELESS IN THE STREETS! THIS IS OBSCENE!
IN TEXAS, THE STIMULUS MONEY IS NOT GOING TO GO TO THOSE SORRY PART -TIME WORKERS. IT IS GOING TO HELP RESTORE THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION THAT SOME RICH WHITE YOUNG MAN BURNED IN A PIQUE OF RAGE BECAUSE WHATEVER IT WAS HE FELT HE WAS ENTITLED TO HE APPARENTLY DID NOT GET!
We elected a PRESIDENT THE ENTIRE COUNTRY FELL IN LOVE WITH ORIGINALLY -- BECAUSE HE PROMISED HOPE AND CHANGE BUT INSTEAD, IT LOOKS LIKE HE JUST PICKED UP WHERE THE CHENEY-BUSH-CLINTON ALLIANCE LEFT OFF... WE WERE FOOLED AGAIN. People forget that John F. Kennedy, the elitist son of privilege was destined to be a one-term President because he messed up where it counts the most THE DOMESTIC ECONOMY! Never mind that the Bay of Pigs fiasco angered the CIA, the Mafia who lost billions in their Cuban investments as well as others... The VOTERS would have removed Kennedy from office LEGALLY!So I don't know why he was assassinated. Stupid thing to do.
PRESIDENT OBAMA has often been compared to Kennedy. On his mother's side of the family, he is related to elite Northeastern dynasties as well so he is NOT the OUTSIDER he is portrayed. He and Kennedy were both products of HARVARD! Obama's father was Kenyan ROYALITY insofar as there IS African Royalty and a Muslim and President Obama was raised as a Muslim.
I was willing to forget all this if he could just save our country from the ECONOMIC SUICIDE that began with Carter's regime --given a respite by REAGAN and then pushed into the downhill spiral by NIXON's former henchmen. I began to realize that it was just one Party of ELITES with different labels.
NOW THIS IS SOME REAL OBSCENITY.
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Posted by: joeocho88 on May 23, 2009 3:44 PM
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Jobs are dropping in this country like autumn leaves and YOUR JOB COULD BE NEXT!
I was made homeless in the 2001 Recession and just when I got out of it, ALONG COMES THE 2008 RECESSION!
They used to come in 10 year cycles but now they are coming closer together.
EVERY ABLE-BODIED AMERICAN WHO WANTS A JOB AND WANTS TO WORK FOR THEIR MONEY SHOULD HAVE A JOB!
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