Saturday, July 9, 2016

Internet, Porn and Playboy

So Playboy Magazine (and website) will no longer feature nudity, after 60 years.  The reason the Playboy CEO gives is internet porn has made nudity passé.  He further went on to say internet porn has reached a critical mass, destroying the possibility of intimacy (presumably among the sexes.)

It's interesting to see a business built on a theme to give up that theme.  It's also interesting his informed comments on the effect of the ubiquity of porn.  I hear the preacher man says by far the biggest problem he faces is the effect of porn on the family.  It is massively destructive.

Porn is used as a lure to kids to get past those "captcha" answer the question pages on websites.  It's expensive to get people to answer the questions, but hackers can get the job done cheap by showing kids some porn after tricking them to take the time to answer the captcha question.  It's all automatic.

I know a cop who in his youth was a undercover vice cop, and one of his jobs was to go to the Seattle porn theatres and watch the movies to see if any movies crossed the line.  Since porn addiction requires always worse scenes, they often crossed the line.  This cop says he has never been able to get some of the scenes out of his head, and it pretty much ruined his relationship with women in his life.  Further, he says, the stuff commonly out on the web is far worse than anything he saw in the movie theaters he busted in the 1970s.

Lending malcredit instead of money is to blame for this.  There is no rational limit to lending malcredit and so anything and everything can be "financially engineered."  And so this vast "information superhighway" was made no charge, and so we have a system that is, if I recall correctly, 94% spam and probably as much life-drain WWW searching on the pointless and destructive.  If the government had not made the web free, if there were never involved, we might have an alternative that was not so destructive.

When I receive spam, I've paid to receive it, by having an ISP that is forced to by tied into the WWW as defined by government regulators.  The USMails used to be you paid for the mail you receive.  Then  they switched to you pay to send it.

Right now all this "free" is being paid for with malcredit, the cost is just be added to the massive tab being left for future generations to pay, future generations who will come from families, many of them, much harmed by internet porn.

Lending mal-credit is irrational, and there will be no rational basis for when it all comes tumbling down.  But what cannot go on, whatever is in a downward spiral, will at she point end.  Even Playboy will no longer show naked ladies.  Even that ends.

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