New Law Spells Death For Social Porn?
- added October 19, 2007
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- robertogrijalva
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Social networking didnt just revolutionize the way we interact online (and caused a lot of very, very ugly profiles to appear); it has also revolutionized porn. Believe it or not, YouPorn [link obviously NSFW], a site that lets its users post erotic/pornographic images and videos of themselves is currently the most visited adult site out there. Its bigger than CNN, and thats a lot of traffic.
But, the proposed changes to a US law 18 U.S.C. 2257 might be the end of sites like YouPorn, because they would require every performer (this would include social networks like YouPorn) to disclose about his/her age and identity. Want to post that raunchy picture of you and your girlfriend in the bathroom? Your ID, please.
But, the proposed changes to a US law 18 U.S.C. 2257 might be the end of sites like YouPorn, because they would require every performer (this would include social networks like YouPorn) to disclose about his/her age and identity. Want to post that raunchy picture of you and your girlfriend in the bathroom? Your ID, please.
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- robertogrijalva
- 9 months ago
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So the death of sites like YouPorn: is that a good or a bad thing?
When they say it's the most visited adult site, most visited how - most hits? Unique visitors? There's a big difference between a few horny guys hitting refresh a zillion times and unique visits to the site. -
For one it is a very 'bad' thing because porn is ubiquitious, historically-constant, and useful.
Secondly, you can't get rid of porn, like drugs, prostitution, and other wonderful things that governments try to restrict, it is adaptive and organic-- subversive, in the true sense of the term of being underground but structurally necessary for the functioning of society. So you can't get rid of it, it will only find other modes of representation--and it will be on the internets.
In fact, there are studies that pornography and sex drive the mutations of telecommunications that are used for less erotic reasons. Think of the VCR and the internet, the movie theater--the text message.
Put that in your mouth. -
"the internets"? Crap, there's more than one internet, and I'm on THIS one?? ;)
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