Friday, January 5, 2007

The evolving demand for smut



NYT's The Lede points out;

"A porn industry opponent is quoted as saying that the industry is “still growing, but just not at the growth rates they experienced in the past.”

Whatever the reality (David points out that because most of the industry is privately owned, accurate numbers are hard to come by), it’s worth noting that porn-peddlers seem particularly excited about two things: 1) the rise of cell-phone smut delivery, and 2) pornography featuring “women in their 30’s into their 70’s” — which an industry analyst described as “the one area of huge growth.”

“The flashpoint for this in our culture was the teen movie ‘American Pie,’” he said, “where there is a famous sequence involving one of the kids and his friend’s mother.”

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