Porn 'r' Us

It's no secret that pornography drives technology.

That was the conclusion after I casually mouthed that pornography should be legalised. During my course, serious topics like these were often discussed during the lunch hour.

Pornography should be legalised and taxed by the government. And there must be strict enforcement policies so that snuff movies remain as urban legends, actresses and actors are really above 18 years of age, no animal/man/woman was ill-treated and everybody on it are responsible adults and gave 100% consent to being wanked over by hundreds/thousands/millions of sperm-ladened males and hormone-charged females with an itch that need to be scratched.

But the really interesting observation was how pornography drove technology. I'll skip the whole polaroid to coloured magazines and VHS tapes and vcd/dvd improvements in media technology.

I'll move straight to pornography and the internet.
We now have faster internet speeds because we want pictures to be downloaded faster and faster to sustain our insatiable thirst for flesh. Not contented with just pictures of lousy quality, we want them to be small yet retain all the necessary quality. That's where jpeg compression comes in right? And then we no longer find pictures (s)exciting, we move onto movies. That requires even more bandwidth and also mpeg compression. Porno sites are not free for all, I mean they give you a teaser and if you wanna explore further, you end up having to declare your age in some age verification site followed by some pay site asking you to provide credit card details. Again we see technology advancement in the form of secured cashless transactions. Let's face it, pornography must have been the first e-industry to gain a firm foothold in e-business. Their business model definitely works.

This is not a moral issue. It just is.