Where is Porn Headed?
I'm a lifelong fan of porn, the people who make it work as an industry, and the talent.
Porn is part of human sexuality, and depictions of the sex act for the purposes of arousal go back to the caves. Before the age of technology, ancient humans were carving dildos to pleasure themselves. The oldest profession is just that, and for a reason. The need for sexual gratification is as fundamental as the need to breathe.
Humans have built in competitive instincts, and a very strong need to compete. But we are social beings too, and so our advanced intelligence has made the most successful of is realise that cooperation is a behaviour that can make life better, and.mive things forward. So we have a world that succeeds with a hybrid of instincts. This is the balance of nature. Sometimes we get out of balance, and nature restores that balance by means of wars or catastrophes that make us change. The great dystopia writers like Orwell and Huxley challenge us by imagining a world that becomes unbalanced because of technology. If we are smart, we pay attention to geniuses like these in the interests of all humankind.
In every aspect of human endeavour, we are all pushed forward by a tiny number of geniuses. Da Vinci, Raphael, Jesus, Muhammed, Michelangelo, Darwin, Gretzky, Zuckerberg, Catherine the Great, Mozart, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, MichaelJordan, Shakespeare, James Joyce, . In every field, there are geniuses. Some are more famous than others. History remembers some but not others. The ingenuity of Humans creates whole new industries that make the world a better or a worse place, depending on how we regulate things as a society. Society has many, many layers and subgroups. So regulating between competing groups is valuable. We mainly use international sports as a surrogate for conflict, and a means to engage and reward our mist physically talented. Intelligence and genius take many forms. We invented the League of Nations, then the United Nations, FIFA, the NFL, the NCAA, the World Trade Organisation, the EU, BRICs. All of these come from the same genius realisation that we need to have checks and balances so that the vast majority can live decently and the most talented can be rewarded for what they do for the rest of us.
We constantly find ways to make things work. Usually, we make things better but not always. Progress is like life. We sometimes slip back, get distracted, go down a wrong path. The trick is to readjust. Craft beer is an example of readjustment when globalisation results in a loss of quality. New forms of music and art don't replace the old, they find their place in a new world. Our world today would be unrecognisable to a person from 1925 and yet they would quickly grasp how, for example, music went from acetates to vinyl to tapes to CDs and then digital. But vinyl made something of a comeback and had a niche. Amplification technology directly led to smaller bands and new instruments. The internet led to new ways of creating and sharing music. But we still have the Taylor Swifts, the aBeyonces and Jay-Z's. People who move the whole game for everyone else.
This is true in porn. There's a book about the creation and regulation of adult video called Smutty Little Movies. It tells the amazing story of the porno pioneers who took the industry to being ready for its current phase of global online reach. The sex industry in many cases has led other industries in the clever use of technology and the invention of systems of reward. More recently a Swedish film called Pleasure (2021) gave us a snapshot of the emerging industry that in four short years has leaped forward. But we always need to be careful when things change really fast, because we can get out of balance. Right now is a great time for the talent at many levels. There is a whole ecosystem of camping worldwide. The question is, whether there is a risk that the people who control the underlying technologies are sucking too much out of the performers and their fans. This is no different than arguing about whether it is too expensive now to go and watch the Raiders, a team that built its whole ethos on being blue collar.
The top talent put a lot of themselves into success. They are always on, always hustling, always having to look their best. Like mainstream movie stars but as Chloe Cherry will tell you, in a vastly different reward system.
Porn stars are literally on display much more than mainstream stars. The slightest sign of a stretchmark means implantation ia next. Nicole Aniston described it very well when she got smaller implants. She said she felt that she was reclaiming her body from the industry and having tits that were for herself as well as random fans on-line.
The good thing about the current industry is that the talent can make a better living. The risk right now is with AI leaping forward, mega corporations with literally use replicants inatead of sex workers. Nicole Aniston has done a deal with an AI company that gives them rights to create her digital twin with her exactly voice. We can already see how amazingly easy it is to create AI slutmix versions of songs. And the porn industry is already merging into a few global conglomerates.
We need to seek balance as always. There are people who want to close down pornography, but ironically, its successful transition into the global economy is a projection against that.
In every walk of life, it is human nature to be nostalgic. We are wired to remember the good things about the past, and to forget the bad. Politicians who understand this make use of it. Some people think they can avoid this bias, but the reality is that it is human to possess biases. I often hear people hankering for the good old days of the late 50s and 60s when New York was full of great clubs and jazz geniuses, and people all over the world wanted to be there. Then I see people who were actually there describe how tough things were for the talent, the musicians who made it all possible. And yet many made it through, with fond memories and friendships. The ones who didn't make it, aren't here to tell the other stories. Porn is no different. We can be nostalgic for the pioneering days and its Bohemian people. But today's porn people are no less marvelous. They are the new Bohemians.
Valentina Nappi, Lily Langtry, Lucretia Borgia, Mae West, Louise Brooks ..... all part of an erotic lineage.
Just a rumination on porn. It's great to be alive and able to watch it all unfold.
Porn is part of human sexuality, and depictions of the sex act for the purposes of arousal go back to the caves. Before the age of technology, ancient humans were carving dildos to pleasure themselves. The oldest profession is just that, and for a reason. The need for sexual gratification is as fundamental as the need to breathe.
Humans have built in competitive instincts, and a very strong need to compete. But we are social beings too, and so our advanced intelligence has made the most successful of is realise that cooperation is a behaviour that can make life better, and.mive things forward. So we have a world that succeeds with a hybrid of instincts. This is the balance of nature. Sometimes we get out of balance, and nature restores that balance by means of wars or catastrophes that make us change. The great dystopia writers like Orwell and Huxley challenge us by imagining a world that becomes unbalanced because of technology. If we are smart, we pay attention to geniuses like these in the interests of all humankind.
In every aspect of human endeavour, we are all pushed forward by a tiny number of geniuses. Da Vinci, Raphael, Jesus, Muhammed, Michelangelo, Darwin, Gretzky, Zuckerberg, Catherine the Great, Mozart, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, MichaelJordan, Shakespeare, James Joyce, . In every field, there are geniuses. Some are more famous than others. History remembers some but not others. The ingenuity of Humans creates whole new industries that make the world a better or a worse place, depending on how we regulate things as a society. Society has many, many layers and subgroups. So regulating between competing groups is valuable. We mainly use international sports as a surrogate for conflict, and a means to engage and reward our mist physically talented. Intelligence and genius take many forms. We invented the League of Nations, then the United Nations, FIFA, the NFL, the NCAA, the World Trade Organisation, the EU, BRICs. All of these come from the same genius realisation that we need to have checks and balances so that the vast majority can live decently and the most talented can be rewarded for what they do for the rest of us.
We constantly find ways to make things work. Usually, we make things better but not always. Progress is like life. We sometimes slip back, get distracted, go down a wrong path. The trick is to readjust. Craft beer is an example of readjustment when globalisation results in a loss of quality. New forms of music and art don't replace the old, they find their place in a new world. Our world today would be unrecognisable to a person from 1925 and yet they would quickly grasp how, for example, music went from acetates to vinyl to tapes to CDs and then digital. But vinyl made something of a comeback and had a niche. Amplification technology directly led to smaller bands and new instruments. The internet led to new ways of creating and sharing music. But we still have the Taylor Swifts, the aBeyonces and Jay-Z's. People who move the whole game for everyone else.
This is true in porn. There's a book about the creation and regulation of adult video called Smutty Little Movies. It tells the amazing story of the porno pioneers who took the industry to being ready for its current phase of global online reach. The sex industry in many cases has led other industries in the clever use of technology and the invention of systems of reward. More recently a Swedish film called Pleasure (2021) gave us a snapshot of the emerging industry that in four short years has leaped forward. But we always need to be careful when things change really fast, because we can get out of balance. Right now is a great time for the talent at many levels. There is a whole ecosystem of camping worldwide. The question is, whether there is a risk that the people who control the underlying technologies are sucking too much out of the performers and their fans. This is no different than arguing about whether it is too expensive now to go and watch the Raiders, a team that built its whole ethos on being blue collar.
The top talent put a lot of themselves into success. They are always on, always hustling, always having to look their best. Like mainstream movie stars but as Chloe Cherry will tell you, in a vastly different reward system.
Porn stars are literally on display much more than mainstream stars. The slightest sign of a stretchmark means implantation ia next. Nicole Aniston described it very well when she got smaller implants. She said she felt that she was reclaiming her body from the industry and having tits that were for herself as well as random fans on-line.
The good thing about the current industry is that the talent can make a better living. The risk right now is with AI leaping forward, mega corporations with literally use replicants inatead of sex workers. Nicole Aniston has done a deal with an AI company that gives them rights to create her digital twin with her exactly voice. We can already see how amazingly easy it is to create AI slutmix versions of songs. And the porn industry is already merging into a few global conglomerates.
We need to seek balance as always. There are people who want to close down pornography, but ironically, its successful transition into the global economy is a projection against that.
In every walk of life, it is human nature to be nostalgic. We are wired to remember the good things about the past, and to forget the bad. Politicians who understand this make use of it. Some people think they can avoid this bias, but the reality is that it is human to possess biases. I often hear people hankering for the good old days of the late 50s and 60s when New York was full of great clubs and jazz geniuses, and people all over the world wanted to be there. Then I see people who were actually there describe how tough things were for the talent, the musicians who made it all possible. And yet many made it through, with fond memories and friendships. The ones who didn't make it, aren't here to tell the other stories. Porn is no different. We can be nostalgic for the pioneering days and its Bohemian people. But today's porn people are no less marvelous. They are the new Bohemians.
Valentina Nappi, Lily Langtry, Lucretia Borgia, Mae West, Louise Brooks ..... all part of an erotic lineage.
Just a rumination on porn. It's great to be alive and able to watch it all unfold.
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