If someone wants to spend four hours a day looking at porn, who the hell are you to say that’s a problem? I’m getting the whiff of a do-gooder busybody here. ;-)

I have a friend that lost his job because he was looking at pornography at work, and I’ve known others that lost their girlfriends/wifes.

Note, I’m not saying there is anything wrong with pornography, or that I think it should be outlawed simply because some people take it too far, but it certainly can be addictive. I’d say if anyone is looking at it more than 4 hours a day then perhaps they may have an addiction issue. After all, considering what you get out of it, I’m not sure 4 hours a day is worth it, and it almost certainly is having negative consequences. I’d say the same thing for TV or video games.

This is hilarious, and yet, so totally cool. I’m taking an Econ course right now and will be forwarding your post to my professor.

According to what I’ve learned, you also have to take into account the fact that consumers’ incomes change. When incomes grow, people tend more for what’s called “normal” goods, when the income is reduced folks go for “inferior” goods. IE, I make more money, I buy the better, faster, kinkier, newer porn. I lose my job and I’m back on the re-runs and old shows I’ve saved from days of yore. [Another ie, get a raise - buy new clothes, lose income go back to shopping at a second hand store.]

Right now, unemployment in the US is pretty low, I believe, so I bet demand and quantity demanded for porn is up. But I bet if you checked the membership purchases on porn websites or even the proliferation of porn websites or videos post-Dot Com Bust, you’d see that the numbers dropped.

And this is in addition to the fact that we have changing, evolving tastes. Like you said, B, why subside on canned peas and blocks of cheddar cheese when we can afford organic, fresh, varied veggies and gourmet fromage?

Clearly, this Professor is just fishing for someone to share their account password to Sex & Submission with him.

“Fascinating insight into the industry trends! It gets me wondering” …. “where - if anywhere - the porno-net of the 1990s that I grew up on is stockpiled.”

Check out the “Internet Archive” at http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
It’s far from complete ‘cos many sites had “robots-nofollow” or “noarchive” tags, but it’s amusing when it works. Sadly, something appears to have buggered the index and a bunch of the old links aren’t found any longer, but it’s still amazing at times!

I’m a guy, I know how guys watch porn. I have very little idea how women do. So I couldn’t have said “people” in that sentence. I could in the sentence before, because I know that tastes change for both men and women.

Thanks for the data point on women and porn, I do appreciate it.