Bruce Sterling, whose futurism writing is always a wild ride, has something to say about the future of porn. First he predicts the death of genres in general by 2031:

Genres are gone — well, genres haven’t vanished exactly, but genre conventions have to be carefully explained to people, like the extravagant gestures once native to silent film.

And then:

Since pornography is a genre, there isn’t any left. Of course, there are mega-terabytes of recorded sex acts, but since nobody pays to view all that, it doesn’t formally exist as a social problem. Prostitution exists. Espionage exists. Prostitution and espionage have never been closer, because, in 2031, sex scandals are a major political enterprise. Old commercial porn has become new political power-porn; everyone in power is surrounded by a haze of prurient micro-video, captured and spread by enemies. Popes, queens, supermodels, billionaires, socialites, anybody really. This is the massive civilizational moral crisis. It is routinely decried as shocking and decadent and shameful and how-could-they. Nobody does anything much to stop it.

The world needs more alternative key caps to liven up its boring QWERTY keyboards. Like, for instance, this spank button:

Found via the fine weekly spanking links update that Chross publishes every week, and which you simply cannot afford to miss if you like spanking stuff.

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Times change, and so do attitudes. A platitude, but we forget. Until we are reminded.

Here’s a description of how Thomas More (who brought us the word “Utopia” and was considered oh-so-progressive because he educated his daughters as well as his son) helped Sir William Roper decide which of More’s daughters he’d like to marry:

Roper calls one morning and tells More that he wishes to marry one of More’s daughters–either one will do–upon which More takes Roper to his bedroom, where the daughters are asleep in a truckle bed wheeled out from beneath the parental bed. Leaning over, More deftly takes “the sheet by the corner and suddenly whippes it off” … revealing the girls to be fundamentally naked. Groggily protesting at the disturbance, they roll onto their stomachs, and after a moment’s admiring reflection Sir William announces that he has seen both sides now and with his stick lightly taps the bottom of sixteen-year-old Margaret.

Found at Hermione’s Heart.

Update: I was going to post the above as-is. But then I thought, let’s chase this deeper into the original material. What I found was the following from John Aubrey’s Brief Lives, c. 1690:

Memorandum that in [More’s] Utopia, his lawe is that young people are to see each other stark-naked before marriage. Sir William Roper came one morning pretty early to my Lord, with a proposall to marry one of his daughters. My Lord’s daughters were then both together in a bed in a truckle-bed in their father’s chamber asleep. He carries Sir William into the chamber, and takes the sheet by the corner and suddenly whippes it off. They lay on their backs, and the their smocks up as high as their arme pitts; this awakened them, and immediately they turned on their bellies. Quoth Sir William Roper, “I have seen both sides”, and so gave a patt on her buttock, he made choice of, saying,” Thou art mine.”

Here was all the trouble of the wooing.

A panel from Study Abroad, currently being serialized at Dr. Faustus’s Erotic Mad Science.

So, I just got this spam email:

Say these “magic words” to a girl and SHE WILL SUCK YOUR COCK! Shocking free video reveals magic words that make any girl want to suck your cock…tonight! 100% guaranteed!

Somewhere on the internet, some frustrated fool is watching a cheesy video ad for some sort of pickup-artist club/course/scam, waiting to hear the promised magic words…

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