1. Offend the Religious Right ... 3. Profit!!!!! -Thursday, February 19, 2004 -4:12 am-
One of the very few non-infomercials on in the middle of the night is Wild On. I have no idea what the alleged topic was (does it really matter?). The thing that I was struck by is how amazingly rich porn publishers are. It didn't really strike me until I realized that most of these publishers only have one, or at most two, products in the market (i.e. a magazine, or a magazine and a website, or a line of videos). Most of the big time mainstream publishers have dozens of publications in markets all over the world. Yet the porn magnates are still raking in big dollars. This rather implies that A LOT of porn is being sold somewhere. In America, at least, everyone claims not to have bought porn (yes, I know some of you reading this are exceptions). Obviously, a huge percentage of people are buying porn. Or one rich, lonely man is going crazy. Somewhere between our nationally professed morality and our economic reality, there's a huge disparity. Why don't people grow up, join the 21st century, and get the hell over it?