Capitalism and Loneliness: Why Pornography Is a Multibillion-Dollar Industry

“One is the loneliest number, and in their personal lives, Americans are increasingly alone.”

At a XXX-roads

“The adult industry is seeking respectability—and profits”

What I learned working in a porn store

“I don’t judge my customers for watching adult movies. I judge them for the shifty, strange ways they shop”

Hard Core

“The new world of porn is revealing eternal truths about men and women.”

The Erotic Engine: How Pornography has Powered Mass Communication, from Gutenberg to Google

NexNote: Someone buy this for me please!

“ornography: The force for change that has been written out of the history of world culture.

From cave painting to photography to the internet, pornography has always been at the cutting edge in adopting and exploiting new developments in mass communication. And in so doing, it has helped to promote and propel those developments in ways that are rarely acknowledged. Without pornography, the internet would not have grown so quickly. The e-commerce payment systems that are now commonplace would be at a far more primitive stage security and usability. Without video streaming software developed for pornography sites, CNN would be struggling to deliver news clips. Without advertising from sex sites, Google could not have afforded YouTube.

This smart, witty and well-researched history shows how a vast secret trade has bankrolled and shaped mainstream culture and its machines.”

Gaspar Noé: 'What's the problem?'

“Gaspar Noé knows pornography. And shooting a sex scene from inside the vagina isn’t pornographic. Steve Rose hears about the real boundary being pushed in the incendiary director’s new film”

Censor pornography in Internet

“The Philippines has a law proscribing and punishing pornography. Article 201 of the Revised Penal Code holds criminally liable those “who, in theaters, fairs, cinematographs or any other place, exhibit indecent or immoral plays, scenes, acts or shows” which “serve no other means but to satisfy the market for violence, lust or pornography …” The phrase “or any other place” should cover the Internet web, especially because it “invades” the home.”