The Porn Industry

Okay, this rant is personal, because I just caught my 11 yr old son visiting a porn site which comes with it's own slew of rants, but for now I'm just going to address the porn industry itself.

I'm not a prude. I enjoy sex as much as the next person... I acknowledge that many people have different outlooks on their sexual preferences. Some people enjoy "missionary sex" others enjoy "bestiality" or more outlandish sexual encounters. I'm not really one to judge, and in my mind you can be into whatever you want to be into as long as it doesn't impact me.

The porn industry makes a lot of money from attracting the curious, the perverse, and often the innocent wanderer. It used to be that porn was more difficult to access. You could find the sites easily enough with a few simple keywords in a search, but the sites were often guarded with an entry screen which would in the least, have you click to confirm that you were of age. It seemed as though many site required a credit card to enter the site so that it could confirm that you were an adult. As the widespread of the internet continues to grow, rules and regulation seem to fade into the distant past. Porn sites are not only available through searches, but they spill over the web through web advertising, pop-up ads, and other invasive techniques. Not only are the sites not really protecting their content from minors, but the accessibility has become such that even a child can innocently find themselves in a dangerous place.

And then there is the porn itself. Most porn is not intended for the romantic. It's strictly sex, and of course generally skewed to male desires which are often degrading to women. (e.g. cum shots to the face, bondage, and various other practices) I know that pornography is intended to arouse, but where do we as a society draw the line?

It makes me sad to think that this is where things are going in the world, but when you look at just about anything, such as the video game industry, it's not hard to see that the notion that "sex sells" is just something I am going to have to learn to accept. I'm also going to have to accept that it's VERY accessible and if I want to protect my son, I'm going to have to invest in some serious parental controls and watch programs. I shouldn't have to do this, but I do have to and that is just the way of the world anymore. The responsibility falls entirely in your own lap as no one or no business is ever held accountable for their actions in this day and age.

So to the porn industry and my son's tainted and polluted mind thanks to you, I give you a big middle finger.