DoctorDoom
12-30-2004, 05:11 PM
From the New York Times' bastard child, the Boston Globe, comes this reassuring item about meeting the demand for smut in America.
THE YEAR 2004 witnessed the continued mainstreaming, popularity, and proliferation of adult entertainment -- its detractors simply call it pornography -- in American culture. Despite this country's documented appetite for sexual fare, a vocal minority hopes to put the brakes on the widespread availability of adult material.
The success of adult video star Jenna Jameson's best-selling book, "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star," is testament alone to the popularity of this material. The memoir detailing the trials and tribulations of the world's most popular adult actress was such a hit this year that people stood in line for 2 1/2 hours at a book signing in San Francisco. According to Publishers Weekly, the book already has had three press runs, with 100,000 copies in print.
Then there's the continued expansion and development of publisher Larry Flynt's chain of clean, well-lighted "Hustler Hollywood" stores across the United States. No longer limited to the original Sunset Boulevard locale in West Hollywood, one can now find the upscale adult emporiums in places ranging from Lexington, Ky., to Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
All of the growth and success of the multi-billion dollar adult entertainment industry in 2004 came despite a well-publicized HIV scare among its workers in Southern California. But just when you thought it was safe to visit that sexually explicit website or drive to the adult store to pick up the latest flick from Vivid Video, the forces of censorship are at it again. And this time they are taking the battle to Congress with the all-too-familiar parade of "experts" predicting certain doom if sexual content doesn't remain tucked away behind bedroom doors.The politics of porn (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/12/27/the_politics_of_porn?mode=PF)
According to the Globe, Americans are demanding that our society be saturated with pornography, and that only Puritans want it restricted. Never mind that it is not difficult to find it. Their perverted editorialists want ALL limitations removed, so that the sick bastards who like to wank while looking at smut won't have to inconvenience themselves by going out of their way to find it.
Exposing our kids to filth is a small price to pay when catering to the tastes of smut addicts.
Also note the politically correct "adult entertainment" euphemism. There was a time not long ago when the word "adult" meant grown up and mature. Now it means pornographic. Leave it to the liberal @ssholes to destroy good words in their hellish quest to purge America of every trace of morality.
THE YEAR 2004 witnessed the continued mainstreaming, popularity, and proliferation of adult entertainment -- its detractors simply call it pornography -- in American culture. Despite this country's documented appetite for sexual fare, a vocal minority hopes to put the brakes on the widespread availability of adult material.
The success of adult video star Jenna Jameson's best-selling book, "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star," is testament alone to the popularity of this material. The memoir detailing the trials and tribulations of the world's most popular adult actress was such a hit this year that people stood in line for 2 1/2 hours at a book signing in San Francisco. According to Publishers Weekly, the book already has had three press runs, with 100,000 copies in print.
Then there's the continued expansion and development of publisher Larry Flynt's chain of clean, well-lighted "Hustler Hollywood" stores across the United States. No longer limited to the original Sunset Boulevard locale in West Hollywood, one can now find the upscale adult emporiums in places ranging from Lexington, Ky., to Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
All of the growth and success of the multi-billion dollar adult entertainment industry in 2004 came despite a well-publicized HIV scare among its workers in Southern California. But just when you thought it was safe to visit that sexually explicit website or drive to the adult store to pick up the latest flick from Vivid Video, the forces of censorship are at it again. And this time they are taking the battle to Congress with the all-too-familiar parade of "experts" predicting certain doom if sexual content doesn't remain tucked away behind bedroom doors.The politics of porn (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/12/27/the_politics_of_porn?mode=PF)
According to the Globe, Americans are demanding that our society be saturated with pornography, and that only Puritans want it restricted. Never mind that it is not difficult to find it. Their perverted editorialists want ALL limitations removed, so that the sick bastards who like to wank while looking at smut won't have to inconvenience themselves by going out of their way to find it.
Exposing our kids to filth is a small price to pay when catering to the tastes of smut addicts.
Also note the politically correct "adult entertainment" euphemism. There was a time not long ago when the word "adult" meant grown up and mature. Now it means pornographic. Leave it to the liberal @ssholes to destroy good words in their hellish quest to purge America of every trace of morality.