There was an interesting article in the news concerning a porn site called xhamster.com I don’t know why it’s called that and I really don’t want to know. They’re in the news because they closed off their website to anybody living in the state of North Carolina. Why? Because of the harsh, horrible anti-LGBT law they passed. If you log onto their website from anywhere in that state, you get a blank screen.
The tone of all the news reports and nightly talk shows was that this was a funny but useless protest. There are thousands of other porn sites where North Carolinians can … well you know. But, as usual, the main stream media and the nightly talk shows missed the real story. I am not offering an opinion on the virtues or evils of porn. However, there is a larger truth which is widely known but rarely talked about regarding the porn industry. Porn has been a major driver, financial backer, and early adopter of technological innovation since the beginning. Since forever.
When mankind started drawing on cave walls, I guarantee you some of the first things depicted were people getting some Neanderthal Nookie.
Porn was very popular in the Middle Ages. Moreover, it utilized some of the earliest encryption technologies. I saw an exhibit in a museum once that showcased one of them. The exhibit consisted of huge tapestries painted with very strange distorted images. You couldn’t tell what they were.
What were they? Porn. The artist would draw the original naughty painting on a regular canvas. He would then look at the painting’s reflection in a cylindrical mirror. The image in the mirror would be all distorted. He would then paint that distorted image onto the tapestry. If you looked at the tapestry the painting made no sense.
But. If you looked at the tapestry’s reflection in the same cylindrical mirror the artist used, the image would be reconstructed back to its original form. (“Naughty Knights 5”)
When photography was first invented in the 1800’s one of the earliest subjects was, of course, naked women. Having sex. When the telegraph was invented, telegraph operators were known to spend their off hours “telegraph sexting”.
I didn’t believe it either.
OPERATOR ONE: Who you talking to?
OPERATOR TWO: I don’t know, but she sure can dit my dot!
The VCR became popular because porn producers started switching to videotape, abandoning film. Finally, you didn’t have to go to a movie theater for porn. You could “bring it home.” VHS beat out Betamax because the porn industry chose VHS. Really. No kidding. That’s the way it happened.
Porn money propelled other technologies, too. Online payments, DVDs, streaming video, and two-way internet chat rooms. Virtual Reality headsets have only been available for a few months and there’s already Virtual Reality Porn.
(I wouldn’t know this personally, but I read a lot).
So here’s the real story that everybody has missed. One porn site blocked off an entire state. It has been viewed as a symbolic, but mostly useless protest.
What if they all did it? What if all the porn sites got together and said to North Carolina: “NO PORN FOR YOU!”
I’ll bet you that anti-LGBT law would be overturned in about an hour and a half! Maybe less. Then, the porn industry would realize it’s true power! Imagine, Lysistrata on a national, even a global, scale!
“You won’t do what we want? NO PORN FOR YOU!” All the porn industry needs to do is come together. Organize.
Organize into a cartel.
A conglomerate
A Ring.
“One ring to rule them all. One ring to find them.
One ring to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.”
Pray they use their power for good.
Categories: Computers, Humor, Politics, Software, Technology, Tom Curley
Well I had a good laugh for the day. The power of porn – you gotta love that….
Leslie
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I was intrigued by how much our technology has been pushed by porn. Doesn’t that sound like a great book title? “PUSHED BY PORN!” Number one on the NY Times best-selling list!
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You know, Marilyn, I think it would be a best seller for sure…chuckle.
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“Porn Power”, Leslie. I can see and hear Dick Shawn (“The Producers”) singing this to the tune of “Love Power”.
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chuckle – of course it would sell…..
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Good post. Especially liked the Neanderthal nookie 🙂
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I’m afraid to google “Naughty Knights 5” because I’m sure it exists.
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Great piece, Pancho!! I wonder what 45 has done with his blu-ray collection of remastered Harry Reems classics.
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It does, but it’s not what you think. It’s a British farce originally called “Up The Chastity Belt” raucous comedy in the British tradition, so you can breath a sigh of relief.
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Phew!
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What a relief, eh?
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Oh, OK. But definitely do not google “Squealing Squires 3”
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I know what you’re doing Tommy, you’re setting us up in hopes that one of us fools will google the “Squealing Squires 3” site anyway. You know that the “rebellious kid” in most of us likes nothing better than to be told NOT to do something. It’s like the “Red light” gets glazed over and we see only “Green.” I’ll let you know what I find….
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So here’s thee funny thing. You can google any bizzare thing and chances are there’s a porn film by that name. And yet “Squealing Squires 3”?
Nothing!!
My faith in the porn industry has been shaken.
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Pancho, I was late night surfing and caught the “Adult Films Awards Show” for a couple of minutes. Long enough to hear them back-slapping each other about diversity. They’re making America great again.
Did I see Mike Pence and Steve Bannon holding hands in the audience?
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Shake not, my friend, for there’s more where that comes from.., much more heh, heh, heh, heh, heh 🙂
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“(I wouldn’t know this personally, but I read a lot).”
(Sceptical sideways glance)
“What are you doing in there dear?”
“Reading Honey”
love. 🙂
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I only read the articles.
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Always the articles, NEVER the pics, right, lwbut?
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That’s what i used to tell everybody! 😉
love.
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Tommy, you need to get out of the house more often.., really dude
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