Month of April , 2006

With the issue of what people do with their genitals looming larger with every passing day, I've been thinking about the way people talk about the function of sex. "It's for procreation", they say. Asked why, they may point to Genesis, saying "God said so." Or they may point to Darwin, claiming "natural selection says so." Underlying even sex-postivist, ethical slut, reclaiming cunt attitudes is a sense that reproduction is the primary function of intercourse -- they just believe we're lucky enough to be smart enough to figure out ways to forestall reproduction and still have the sex.

Hypothesis: Nudity, pornography, and open sexuality have absolutely no harmful effects on children (when the child is not the subject of sexual behavior).

Discuss.

Porn Industry Again at the Tech Forefront: LA Times story on the role of the porn industry in driving technological advancement. Nothing new, but nice to see that acknowledged in a major outlet.

Money quote: "Historically, the porn industry has adopted new technologies more nimbly than Hollywood. It embraced home video in the late 1970s, allowing people to bypass seedy theaters and watch the movies in their living rooms. Mainstream studios, by contrast, fought home video all the way to the Supreme Court before making it one of the most profitable pieces of their business."