Interesting, if a little odd essay on the matter from Time Magazine.
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Interesting Stat [snicker]:
Here's a little statistic that means a lot. In hotel rooms where pornography is available, two-thirds of all movie purchases are for pornos; and the average time they are watched is 12 minutes. "
A more surprising stat:
"Pornography is big business: an industry that earns an estimated $57 billion worldwide annually —$20 billion just for adult movies in the U.S., where some 800 million videos are rented each year, according to Paul Fishbein, the founding president of Adult Video News. "And I don't think that it's 800 guys renting a million tapes each," he told CBS News. Fishbein means that the phenomenon can't be simply a big-city, left-wing perversion; a good many of those renters, those consumers of hotel porn, have to be red-staters."
$20 billion... wow..... To quote Deuce Bigalow "I'm gonna kill my guidance councillor!!"
It's interesting to cross this thread with the Sin City one - which is worse and more destructive to society? Sexuality or extreme violence? Apparently a man can be shown to be castrated and still garner an "R" rating but sex acts gets you a "NC-17" rating.
Are we prudes or immune to violence?
