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We are already post-scarcity for pornography. Cracked Magazine said it best: "If I gave you a budget of zero dollars and said, 'Get me as much Internet porn a
by everettForth 13y ago
We are already post-scarcity for pornography. Cracked Magazine said it best:
"If I gave you a budget of zero dollars and said, 'Get me as much Internet porn as you can for that amount of money,' how much porn would you come back with?
I'm thinking the answer is, 'All of the porn.'"
http://www.cracked.com/article_18817_5-reasons-future-will-be-ruled-by-b.s..html http://www.cracked.com/article_18817_5-reasons-future-will-b...
- InclinedPlane 13y agoYet you're missing the other half of the equation. The porn business still makes a crapton of money. Maybe not as much as in its heighday (it's hard to tell), and maybe not by the same sort of folks that were doing it a few decades ago, but it's still a thriving and lucrative business.
- Amadou 13y agoI knew a guy who paid for porn. The way he explained it boiled down to curation. Those youtube-for-porn sites are pretty random, and places like usenet and bittorrent are even less organized, and require a bit of, er, delayed gratification. By paying a site to exercise editorial control he got exactly what he wanted with zero hassle or delay.
- pornthrowaway 13y agoI run a few (very) small porn sites - throwaway account for obvious reasons, though I'm a regular contributor on my main account. The sites I run are single-girl sites owned and operated by a single model - I'm the technical and business side. People are still very willing to pay for original, quality content that would not otherwise be produced. The value proposition is that you're not paying for porn that has been produced, you're paying for porn that has yet to be produced by making it lucrative for the models, photo/videographers, editors, technical folks on the back end, etc to stay in the market. Without that sort of sponsorship, I couldn't stay in business, and the women that own the sites I operate wouldn't be in it either - they'd be stripping or working minimum wage retail - and there'd be less porn in the world, and some people are still willing to pay for that. The main thing is that it's about the interaction - people can chat directly with the models, there are forums, requests are often fulfilled with no additional hassle, that sort of thing.
- arethuza 13y agoExtrapolating that you could imagine a society where every material need is provided for but you need money to get other people to interact with you.... Maybe that's why Culture citizens are genofixed to be sociable and use a language, Marain, that "places much less structural emphasis on (or even lacks) concepts like possession and ownership, dominance and submission, and especially aggression".
- sansheriff 13y agoYou assume the reasons for your throwaway account are obvious, but they aren't to me. Is it because you objectify and dehumanize women for money, or because the content you serve is addictive and distorts people's views on relationships? All of the above?
- pornthrowaway 13y agoSo because I'm paid (poorly) to help women run their businesses, I'm exploiting them? I'm pretty sure that's not how it works.
- haldujai 13y agoI would go with none of the above. Whether or not anything you said is true (I'm doubtful but I haven't researched the subject) I would guess the reason of his burner is the stigma associated with the industry and the effects it could have on his other ventures / personal life. The reason his industry exists is because people want it. A similar, if not worse, industry is tobacco, yet it doesn't have the same proliferation as pornography for a good reason, not as much demand. It is just as addictive and even more destructive. You also have marijuana, which is laughably easy to get in California (legally) and Amsterdam, it also is not as widespread as pornography. If people did not want it, it would not exist.
- pornthrowaway 13y ago> I would guess the reason of his burner is the stigma associated with the industry and the effects it could have on his other ventures / personal life. Correct. This is not my full time occupation - I do it mainly as a favor, with some beer money thrown in. Probably more significantly, it affords a reasonable living to otherwise unskilled women. Their alternatives are extremely limited - if it's exploitation to give people an alternative to poverty, so be it.
- D_Alex 13y agoWell... I paid money for "John dies at the end", the reasonably good book by the author of the article... ironic, right? Edit: The Kindle version.