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From early photography to the VCR to streaming video, innovations in communications technology have often been driven by porn. But sex and tech Wired correspondent Regina Lynn argues that porn may be losing its innovation mojo, at least online.
I find the mentioning of porn making the blind see or making people blind really distasteful. What does the blind have to do with porn in the first place? Worthless comments like that serve nothing to the story , but make the interviewer look smart supposedly. In truth, it makes her sound stupid and insensitive.
In your segment on the state of innovation in the porn industry, your guest Regina Lynn said something so naive as to completely discredit her authority regarding internet porn:
"If you think of today's 12-17 year-olds who have not yet looked at porn, when they turn 18 and they look at their very first adult content...."
That may be the most misinformed statement I've ever heard on OTM. It is the height of naivete to suppose that underage boys do not view pornography-- on the contrary, they are possibly some its most avid consumers. Perhaps it would be advisable to include a male in your next discussion of pornography.
The guest's main points regarding web-based interaction changing pornography are quite valid. The same social shift of interactivity is being seen throughout all media. Pornography once lead media technology change. Factors of high demand, controlled production, restricted distribution, and high profits, all drove technology change-outs. Now, video can be made and distributed by the masses - as a hobby. Restrictions, can be circumvented by international web-hosting. Porn studio profits are no longer sufficient to re-invest in the new interactive technologies. The tech start-ups will branch into interactive sexual fantasy, for the 21st century porn.
User interactive porn, as described as not existing in this piece, does in fact exist. YouPorn.com, PornoTube.com and NewbieNudes.com are all user generated content, with user ratings, and there's a pornographic version of Second Life called Red Light Center Adult Virtual World out there too.
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