Dr. Howard said:JayJuanGee said:Latinopan said:JayJuanGee said:HonantheBarbarian said:[edited out]
What happened in 2007? Something special.
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I think he is referring to the launch of the first Iphone, that was the point people started to watch more and more porn due to the larger screen and high quality image, before that the idea of watching videos on phone was rare, more phone had very small screen (think the popular Sony Ericsson w300), also the Iphone made homemade porn bigger, the Iphone in 2007 made watching porn almost everywhere a thing.
That makes some sense, even though there is probably quite a bit of exaggeration of the problem, and even took a couple of years before regular folks adopted Iphones... or even smartphone's with decent screens ... maybe 2009 or 2010-ish...
The online, and now mobile phone porn phenomenon is interesting. I'd love to watch a documentary on it.
I was a kid in the pre-internet era and was a teenager in the dawn of its common use and back then porn was akin to drug use. It was sort of under the table, you had to go out and get it and people really frowned upon it.
You literally had to walk into the curtained "adults only" section of the video store to get a video and then whats the most that you had...2 hours of video and you were attached to your VCR/TV in order to watch it. The novelty wore off quickly.
Now, you can watch thousands of hours of video wherever you are with literally no age or content restrictions. Parallel it to cigarettes pre 1980s. You could smoke anywhere, anytime and pretty much at any age. As you smoked, you went from 1 a day to a pack a day to pack(s) a day...you also had to buy the higher nicotene content all the way up to the heavy tar 'specials'. That is what porn is now. Its a cheap and unregulated drug.
Since we are walking down memory lane a little bit, I want to add a few memories that spring to mind regarding my various porn experiences.
When I was in high school (early 80s), I recall coming across stashes of porn mags (not easy to come by, but could find them in the trucks of workers or in other hidden places of guys).. I would look for these stashes when I got opportunities, and sometimes share the contents with guy friends (and trade a bit to the extent that it was not mostly a kind of hidden activity). Smaller towns probably did not really have easy access to this and even vhs - but bigger cities would certainly have vhs porn in the 90s, maybe even earlier. I did not really begin pursuing VHS porn until late 90s, and yeah probably by the 2005 or so time frame broadband speeds definitely increased. I'm still not sure if porn is ruining america because of its increased prevalence, ease and even seeming severity of fetishes..
