Porn to be Pawned?
Posted on January 8th, 2009
by Freddy Gray |
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So now the pornography industry is reportedly seeking a bailout, though I expect this is just a PR stunt. Mind you, if you accept that the banking industry deserved government salvation, then porn should be rescued, too. After all, porn and modern finance have much in common: they both are based on fantasy; they both cater to man’s avaricious lust; they both deprave our souls. In fact, pornography is probably morally superior. At least it is what it seems to be, unlike a Bernard Madoff investment scheme.
What’s strange, though, is that one might have expected 2008 to have been a good year for the study of whores. Vice-funds, which profit from booze, sex, and gambling, are said to prosper when capitalism is failing. I heard one financial journalist– on NPR, no less– report that when stock-prices are crashing, traders watch considerably more porn than usual (which ties into the point above). Yet the current crisis seems to be hitting the breweries, casinos and the virtual pimps as hard as everyone else. I can’t find any figures for old-fashioned prostitution, but I reckon that’s one industry that will see off these bad times. Happy new year.
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Perhaps video games are the new porn? At least reports suggest that the gaming industry is thriving as everything else crashes around us. But I am willing to take your advice and gamble on investing in the porn industry. As you drive north through Pennsylvania towards New York state there seems to be no end to the adult road side outlets with neon lights advertising all sorts of recession proof deals.
Porn, like death and taxes, and like the poor, will always be with us.
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Sadly, even our prostitutes are under assault by illegal immigration. Almost all the hooker busts in my area are of Mexican and East Asian women. American craftsmanship undermined by foreign imports yet again!
Two aspects of the spread of Internet pornography stand out above all others in their weakening of the moral fiber:
1. The emphasis on transitory, impersonal, individual self-gratification and appeal to the baser motives weaken the belief in the sacred unitive and procreative functions of the marriage bed, and in the deferred gratification on which capitalism and the bourgeois social order rest.
2. Maddeningly slow download times.