Exploring the Porn Side of the Web

internetevolution.com claims it's HTML 4.0 Transitional.

The w3c says otherwise and internetevolution.com's home page has 468 errors.

 

You decided to check out PornTube and AdultFriendFinder for your research.

That's almost like my doing research on cows using internetevolution.com and whitehouse.gov.

Your choices are lousy examples of the porn industry.

You would have done better to start with a site like Hustler.com. You know, sites that are actually honest-to-god porn sites.

Here's a an example. Netflix now steams full-legnth movies from thier website.

Porn sites have been doing this for years. They were the first. 

"I think most of us share your distain for the pornography business and its effect on society."

 Speak for yourself.

 Millions don't share your beliefs.

"Treating it as though it [porn] were gets into mainstreaming it."

 I hate to break this to you, but porn is mainstream (or close to it).

 

A youtube clone and a social networking site?  Big deal.

If you are looking for real technology challenges, I would look at things like delivering high-quality video, especially streaming video.  Also, delivering a high-quality high-definition streaming video experience to paid users while preventing theft of the same.  And in the environment where certain providers (i.e. Comcast) try to throttle the bandwidth of users who actually try to use the bandwidth they paid for.

I would think this sort of software would be on the leading edge, not delivering a low-quality low-resolution flash experience; that seems almost trivial. 

I appreciate your hard work here, but maybe you can burn a little more midnight oil and investigate this market in areas where there are real technological and intellectual property challenges.  I would look forward to this investigation. 

 

Chris, thank you very much for the interesting research.

I think that  the only thing that should be discussed here is technical edge that Chris mentioned.I am here for 4 months,trying to study Internet, reading books about it and I still don't understand why porn is such a big issue here.

 Teleman, the researches proved that violence scenes cause rapes much more often that  sexual scenes and the rapes are increased not because  there is an easier access to porn- but because of the contradiction.People are afraid to talk about sex in the USA-it's not appropriate-on one hand, on the other hand, you can easily access porn- of course, people go crazy-Id and Super Ego-good old  Freud was right in many things.

I agree that children access to porn is a problem,but as soon as we are talking about adult consumers...You can't convince me that watching people shooting each other is better than watching people having sex.

 

 

I am sure most readers here have seen skits on SNL. A major cast development came in 1988-89, with the recruitment mid-season of young Canadian comic  Mike Myers.  You all no doubt remember Simon (Saturday Night Live) - a little boy who does drawings in the bath and complains about having "prune hands" .  Before i type anything else: The author that started the comments is  Chris Minnick

   I am sure he is aware of pandora's box.

From her is the race of women and female kind:
of her is the deadly race and tribe of women who
live amongst mortal men to their great trouble,
no helpmeets in hateful poverty, but only in wealth.

He reaches deadly old age without anyone to tend his years,
and though he at least has no lack of livelihood while he lives,
yet, when he is dead, his kinsfolk divide his possessions amongst them

Officers that Serve and Protect have always been aware of protecting young minds from abuse and severe duress.  Yet still we possess the primal Id that is of creation.  It is a moral imperative that we all exercise constraints in our act out behaviour.   Living in the wired world is not easy; it really is now like a universal glass house. ( it will become increasingly more so ) BOMBOVA

Now !                        Would you like to see my bum?  

You can write 12 times more about human attraction (cheeky monkey ; Creig Ferguson- The Late Show). The early paper back literature "    oooh... ahhh   he slid his hand over her moist glistening ....   Search engines will give you instant access to your desires.  and it will " mark you " rank your fantasies.  With knowing human nature the author could of come to the conclusion, " without doing the research and averting his gaze ".  That human techno is not just specalized for Porn. Even if it is lucrative!

If your interest has peaked.  You can come back tomorrow.  That is If.. You read the comments  Astute readers will have noticed: I have just pimped my Internet experience.  " well such is life , were all pimps at something "

This season in history has biven us a boy baby. All of the woman of the world rejoiced.  The days in North America will become lighter and the New Year shall bring the revitalization of the earth.  " The peace I make is the peace I give to you "

 ~  Ralph T. Gerwing ~

I understand the theme started with a technical question. But porn isn't like just any internet feature. Treating it as though it were gets into mainstreaming it. To exaggerate the point, it's sort of like asking disinterested technical questions about sites frequented by disturbed teenagers interested in emulating Columbine, or sites that discuss bomb making.

Telemann,

I think most of us share your distain for the pornography business and its effect on society.  But the author asked a technical question:  "It’s often said that pornography sites are on the cutting edge of Web technologies. Is it true?"  The replies are addressing the technology of adult sites, not their social impact. 

~ Mike Bennett ~

Both blogger Minnick and all the previous commenter seemed to just have technical comments on the porn scene - e.g. graphics quality etc.

What's going on?

Isn't anybody aware or concerned about what this degenerate development has done and is doing to the U.S.? It's not preachiness to point out that  since the sexual revolution of the 60s and the ensuing Supreme Court decision that opened the floodgates,  rapes have increased something like seven-fold, making the U.S. the world leader in this area. Even on a per capita basis we're in the company of countries like Russia and South Africa. Is this a valuable status to aspire to?

I'm from an older generation when rape in the university setting was unheard of (don't buy porn advocates's claim that it was simply concealed). I simply can't fathom the fact that every ajor university in the country has a date rape hotline.

Earlier, military officers took it as sacred calling of "officers and gentlemen" to honor and protect women. Now 20% of women in our armed forces report that they have been assaulted.

And this is just for starters, not getting into pump-priming for pedophiles, the effect of porn addiction in stressing and breaking up marriages, etc.

Please consider these matters the next time you are inclined to treat pornography in value-free fashion.