Time: Porn IS a community standard

TheEnforcer · 04-02-2005

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That Old Feeling: When Porno Was Chic
Richard Corliss recalls those dear dead 'Deep Throat' days

Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2005
This column is rated NC17 for explicit nostalgia.

Here's a little statistic that means a lot. In hotel rooms where pornography is available, two-thirds of all movie purchases are for pornos; and the average time they are watched is 12 minutes. The image instantly summoned is of the traveling businessman who wants a smidge of sexual exercise before retiring, but who is too tired, timid or cheap to summon a call girl. He cares little about whatever niceties of dialogue or mise-en-scene the movie may contain. He seeks only a brisk hand job, self-applied, then clicks off the TV, and so to bed. Someone I know, on hearing of this archetypal businessman, wondered, "What did he do the other seven minutes?"

Pornography is big business: an industry that earns an estimated $57 billion worldwide annually —$20 billion just for adult movies in the U.S., where some 800 million videos are rented each year, according to Paul Fishbein, the founding president of Adult Video News. "And I don't think that it's 800 guys renting a million tapes each," he told CBS News. Fishbein means that the phenomenon can't be simply a big-city, left-wing perversion; a good many of those renters, those consumers of hotel porn, have to be red-staters. Which is why, among all the cries in favor of traditional values and against naughty TV, you haven't seen many county sheriffs or G-men forcing the old smut peddler do a perp walk. Porn doesn't affront contemporary community standards. It is a contemporary community standard.

CDSmith · 04-03-2005

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Originally posted by TheEnforcer@Apr 2 2005, 07:03 PM
Fishbein means that the phenomenon can't be simply a big-city, left-wing perversion; a good many of those renters, those consumers of hotel porn, have to be red-staters. Which is why, among all the cries in favor of traditional values and against naughty TV, you haven't seen many county sheriffs or G-men forcing the old smut peddler do a perp walk. Porn doesn't affront contemporary community standards. It is a contemporary community standard.

It's about time we started seeing articles like this in mainstream publications. Nothing like a little dose of reality for the masses.

Fact is, many of those screaming the loudest for censorship are very likely the ones doing the most viewing.

Mike AI · 04-03-2005

Man what a long article....

That guy knows his porn history!

Newton · 04-04-2005

Will the hotel ppv sales slump, when they can download their videos to their palms / 3g phones, i wonder?

Inabon · 04-04-2005

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Originally posted by Newton@Apr 3 2005, 08:03 PM
Will the hotel ppv sales slump, when they can download their videos to their palms / 3g phones, i wonder?

good question. however i think the issue here is size. I guess it may not be the same to jack off holding a phone or palm or winking to see the palm or phone display than to jack off to a big screen tv (in the case of nice hotels)

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TheEnforcer Scored VIP to Anton's Piss Tank Want to see your own Advertising Here! Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 8,781	Click link for full article http://www.time.com/time/columnist/corliss...00.html?cnn=yes That Old Feeling: When Porno Was Chic Richard Corliss recalls those dear dead 'Deep Throat' days Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2005 This column is rated NC17 for explicit nostalgia. Here's a little statistic that means a lot. In hotel rooms where pornography is available, two-thirds of all movie purchases are for pornos; and the average time they are watched is 12 minutes. The image instantly summoned is of the traveling businessman who wants a smidge of sexual exercise before retiring, but who is too tired, timid or cheap to summon a call girl. He cares little about whatever niceties of dialogue or mise-en-scene the movie may contain. He seeks only a brisk hand job, self-applied, then clicks off the TV, and so to bed. Someone I know, on hearing of this archetypal businessman, wondered, "What did he do the other seven minutes?" Pornography is big business: an industry that earns an estimated $57 billion worldwide annually —$20 billion just for adult movies in the U.S., where some 800 million videos are rented each year, according to Paul Fishbein, the founding president of Adult Video News. "And I don't think that it's 800 guys renting a million tapes each," he told CBS News. Fishbein means that the phenomenon can't be simply a big-city, left-wing perversion; a good many of those renters, those consumers of hotel porn, have to be red-staters. Which is why, among all the cries in favor of traditional values and against naughty TV, you haven't seen many county sheriffs or G-men forcing the old smut peddler do a perp walk. Porn doesn't affront contemporary community standards. It is a contemporary community standard.