But in 1970, as the sexual revolution challenged traditional perspectives on love and sex, the industry was stuck between increasing demand and growing concerns over morality. The “torrent of sexuality,” as LIFE called it, was a subject of debate from the Capitol Building to small-town living rooms, as elected officials and private citizens debated not only what to do about porn, but also how to define it in the first place.
Porn was a booming industry in the ’70s, a theater owner could double his profits by showing a skin flick instead of the latest Julie Andrews flick. It was a no-brainer for a lot of business owners: sex sells! But this rise in the consumption of sexuality following the sexual revolution of the late ’60s and early ’70s also correlated in a rise of oh-my-god-what-about-the-children-itis.
In response to this new anti-porn morality, President Nixon (ugh) established the President’s Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. When the Commission failed to find evidence that porn was harmful, the President urged citizens to take up arms (and placards) and fight the good old fight against pornography. It worked too. Ticket prices went up, warnings on the marquee worked as a deterrent, and less prominent placements of advertising all worked towards keeping the kids away. You know, until the Internet was invented.
- What it’s like to run an anonymous Snapchat sexting ring (The Daily Dot)
When WhoPutThatThere decided to become a moderator of r/DirtySnapchat, the 22-year-old didn’t use the subreddit herself. Already a mod on r/Snapchat, she was just looking to make friends.
Now she, along with nine other male moderators, are in charge of running and managing the two-year-old forum that’s grown to over 25,000 subscribers, all redditors who want to find age-appropriate partners to sext with on Snapchat.
Right, so Snapchat was basically invented for people who wanted to send nude pics to people, but didn’t want to run the risk of seeing their dick pics or boobs ending up on the Internet for everyone to see. The app allows you to send a picture to someone, or a short vid, that will self-destruct in 1 to 10 seconds. Sexting, it was all about the sexting.
These days, after gaining popularity with a younger crowd, the app is trying to whitewash over their racy past by cracking down on adult content and banning high profile users who donn’t follow the rules. This strategy didn’t exactly create a PG 13 environment as sexting with strangers is still the norm on Snapchat.
There are numerous Reddit threads dedicated to trading Snapchat pics (which don’t really disappear like magic after all), but the issue with most of them is that they are filled to the gills with underage teens or people pretending to be teens. Thus, r/DirtySnapchat was born where strict rules are enforced by moderators: 1. You have to be over 18 to participate. 2. You have to be a real person.
- Porn star answer to the dirty business of taking pay (The Telegraph)
In a recent, thought-provoking New Statesman article, the porn actress Stoya described how colleagues in her industry often, as you might imagine, have to talk about things that are rarely discussed in public with people they have only just met. It is the nature of the business. And yet, in common with many other workers, porn actors rarely discuss pay. When they do, figures are whispered “furtively or in private” and are often “wildly inaccurate”.
Sometimes this works in a performer’s favour. More often, according to Stoya, the lack of transparency makes it difficult for those new to the industry to value their work and this can upset the whole pay scale.
In an industry with few taboos, it seems odd that talking about how much you get paid is done “furtively or in private.” But that’s always how it goes, right? We’re taught that talking about money is crass and no one wants to be the person who makes more than the other one. Actually, we all want to be the person who makes more than the other one, we just don’t want them to know we make more than them in case they make a fuss and we end up loosing out.
People suck, but at least the porn industry is one of the only industries where the ladies actually make more money than the dudes. Porn, bridging the pay gap one sex scene at a time.
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