Adult Industry Blogs
An email from Sam Sugar of SugarBank has prompted me to create a new category on the blogroll: Adult Industry Blogs.
Sam’s is only the most recent entrant into the category of well-written blogs by porn industry participants: photographers, movie makers, adult webmasters, and pornographers of every stripe. These folks are often extremely knowledgeable, literate, and passionate about sex-related topics, but the ones who don’t blog about their own sex lives (or who don’t post so many free samples of their product) have never been a great fit in the Sex Blog category. The new category also gives me room for creative people like Tony Comstock and others whose blogs present as marketing devices, but interesting ones. (I say “present as marketing devices” because any blog by a person in commerce is a marketing device, whether or not people notice it as such.)
Back to Sam Sugar. To give you the flavor, he recently debunked nine anti-porn myths:
6. Porn is for perverts
With 800 million videos being sold and rented in North America each year either porn is loved by everyone, or everyone’s a pervert.
Paul Fishbein (founder of AVN magazine) said that anti-porn protestors want us to believe that the porn industry serves 800 guys who each rent a million movies a year. He’s right.
People want to enjoy sexual material in every city and state, they spend more on porn in hotels than they do on drinks from the mini-bar. Whatever your thoughts about it, porn’s not a niche interest.
Indeed.
Shorter URL for sharing: http://www.erosblog.com/?p=1125
It’s also for innovators, when-ever new technologies develop, porn is always the first to pick it up and test its boundaries, porn also creates new technologies such as online credit card processing, developed by the adult industry – picked up by the banks.
Thanks for making a place for us in the blogroll!
-TC
Rupert, it just goes to show you how everyone benefits when people are given freedoms.
You’re right. Porn pushed the envelop of technology. Think about it. How many senior citizens use their credit cards to purchase prescription drugs for less money than they could obtain them locally.
But I thought porn was for perverts? Or, at least, I hoped it was…