Interesting article.

http://xbiz.com/article_piece.php?cat=43&id=11453

Yes, please. Oh, it wasn't a question?

I watched a show where it was estimated that porn is a 3-billion dollar a year industry. The dude they interviewed said, " And it isn't 3 people spending a billion dollars each."

I'm getting alot of that sentiment via PM and email, Aunty. Bob graciously asked me to tone it down on the main board a bit. I can respect that since he is a friend of mine and my online behavior reflects on him.

Don't expect me to disappear, though. I'll just file down my thorns a little.

Sand has definitely met vaginas on that cell phone thread.

NO PHUCKING HUMOR ALLOWED, SOL!!

You ROCK, Aunty. You too, Dan.

TK, you hiding because you were totally defeated in the debate with KK? That's a little chickenshiat isn't it? Can't take it,huh?

Sucker,

KT is off at his "Camp David" for the holidays, so he isn't wasting his time on riff raff like us for a while.

Sol,

I saw this thread yesterday and read the article. I found it more interesting than actual pornography. Pornography is interesting in that it was the first business allegedly to make a profit on the internet. I suppose other commerce exceeds it now, but it's funny, entertaining, and interesting to think that sex led the way in making internet commerce the big business it is today. Never spent any of my money on it, tho. Looked at the freebies 2 or 3 times, enough for it to become ho-hum. Maybe I'm too cheap, too old, or didn't like all the stupid pop-ups that infected my computer from going there.

Salmo, you can't run unprotected on the internet where porn sites are concerned. If you do, PC destruction is eminant: A good spyware program is a must as is a good virus program like Norton. Adding a router will also prevent information from coming in unless you request it. Even with all that **** you've got to run Ad-Aware or somthing similar once in a while to clean-up your registry.

You need "protection" on this topic Salmo.

The link does help explain why TK is so "confused".

Not was only porn the leader in cyber-commerce, much of the password/authentication/security methods used today derived from there as well. The porn industry did a lot for the internet world.

Sol,

I just got a lot of junk, no PC destruction. And I run Zone Alarm now, but don't need or really desire a porn fix. It seems like I needed a firewall just from the crap I can pick up crusing fishing web sites.

Harley,

It's interesting at least that we owe so much to porn for the advances in internet commerce. It makes me laugh to think about it.

OK now, must go celebrate the coming new year.

Have a good one, everybody!

Sincerely,

Salmo g.

Ad Aware from Lavasoft is good, but running FireFox as your browser is even better. I run FireFox (free), AdAware (free), an IP Blocker, and Norton Antivirus. I don't have any trouble with pop ups, or spyware.

I enjoy reading that idiot Rory Bellows posts... Even Jesus is laughing at some of his cut and paste crap.

vhawk is dead on. As I've been told, almost if not all of the spy software on the market is written to attack Microsoft code. The Mozilla FireFox browser is coded differently and is immune to these programs. I also ran it at home and had no problems until my wife and kids grenaded the PC.

Parker says he can fix it. We'll see.

I find it interesting that lefties support porn supposedly as a freedom of expresion. When all the research shows that women involved with porn have been victimized by men in some fashion leading them to porn. You would think all you libs raised by feminist moms would be against it. Porn is for childish people with weak minds. Wow that sounds like SOL.

And you're here to save them like a good bleeding heart, right?

I dont think they can be saved unless they stumble accross something in their lives that motivates them. But I don't enable them either.

I thought KT didn't believe any women were victimized. They simply made bad choices of their own free will, so he has no sympathy for them, by his prior posts.

Funny, KT who knows all, says porn is for childish people with weak minds. Sounds like he's talking about himself again.

What research, and who did it? Conservative pilgrams like yourself? Read the porn industry forums, dude. I'm sure there are exceptions, but most of the women will tell you strait up, they are there because they love sex and they have chosen to shed the conservative female sterio type. I've read many threads by women on this topic and can't remember one in which the concensis of opinion (among females) wasn't resentment toward those like you spouting the BS above.

Who said the woman was being victimized at the point of transaction? or as an adult? I said prior to their entry into porn. Events in thier childhood involving men lead them to porn. It is their way of gaining some measure of control over men. Reversing the roles they played as young women. Only a moron would say it is about sex or money. The end result is almost never the reason and perceptiuon is rarely reality.