Comments | ultraforge: DeJennaration: Pornography Is Booming

ultraforge

DeJennaration: Pornography Is Booming

Jan 12, 2006 15:25

AVN recently held it's annual AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. The news? Porno is a growing industry:

In the first quantitative study conducted in three years, Adult Video News estimates consumers spent $12.6 billion on adult entertainment last year ( Read more... )

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ultraforge January 12 2006, 21:34:02 UTC

But...doesn't that count as pornography?

ex_peace2you738 January 12 2006, 21:36:36 UTC

How ironic that you would post this now.

ultraforge January 12 2006, 22:21:13 UTC

I think I see the irony but only when I look at the big picture.

ex_peace2you738 January 12 2006, 22:25:05 UTC

My statement actually has something to do with my personal life (and a whole explosion of crap that happened just this afternoon), and I should not have said it to begin with. I am in a very sour mood. Sorry.

ultraforge January 12 2006, 22:29:03 UTC

That's okay. I'm in a bit of a sour mood at the moment. And by "at the moment", I'm referring to the past 36 years of my life.

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zibacco January 12 2006, 22:00:22 UTC

I live in the San Fernando Valley, porn production capital of the freakin' world. I've even had neighbors who did exactly what you were joking about. They ran some kind of S&M site out of the apartment right next door to me, and it got real old, real quick. They were quite vocal...all night long it was *smack*, moan, *smack*, moan, etc.

Now I don't have a problem with consenting adults doing whatever they want as long as no one gets hurt, or consuming whatever media they want for that matter, but I live in a building with a lot of families, most with kids. It just always seemed obsenely innappropriate for the neighbor kids to be exposed to that, even if it was just the noise. Not to mention the fact that they kept waking me up at night.

ultraforge January 12 2006, 22:23:41 UTC

I've had noisy neighbors like that. Don't know if they were filming their loud, sloppy lust though.

I hate apartment living.

cowboybud January 13 2006, 01:21:26 UTC

pr0n is my anti-drug.

ultraforge January 13 2006, 03:50:24 UTC

One thing is for sure: Trying to outlaw porn is an exercise in futility. Such measures would never work thanks to the internet.

pookerd January 13 2006, 03:01:22 UTC

no shock here, but a few of my dad's friends are directors....including the guy who told me about things back in June

ultraforge January 13 2006, 03:53:01 UTC

As a woman, did it creep you out knowing that this guy was a porn director and might be sizing you up for the business somewhere in the back of his mind?

And what sort of things did he tell you? I heard they like to give drugs to some of the porno actresses to get them to do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.

pookerd January 13 2006, 05:28:33 UTC

Yes it did cross my mind and bother me but I still felt safe wince there were other guys there who I had known since I was little girl and I felt safe around. I was more worried when I found my dad's Barely Legal mag, knowing that those girls were about my friends and mine age or younger. Some of my friends are nothing short of gorgeous, I was the most worried for them.

This one guy is actually the cousin of one of the Good Charlotte band peoples....he offered me backstage passes in trade that I drive his drunk ass, after informing me of his sticky finger problem. I passed.

The other Porno director was the man who told me about my dad's problem back in June since my dad refused to pay him shut up money. He is a pot grower by trade, used to be a Radio DJ and cookbook salesman. I have also known him since I was little, gruff little old man.

The drugs part - both of these two were in on my dad's problems and have done jail time. Wouldnt surprise me.

ultraforge January 13 2006, 06:07:34 UTC

Wow. That's some rather heavy shit.