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Why is there so much free porn on the internet? (2016)
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Re: Why is there so much free porn on the internet? (2016)
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's the only intelligent choice, although I wouldn't blame anybody who chooses to have children. Having children made me feel more empathy for others. Once you have experienced love for your own children, you feel more pity for those parents whose children live in pain, and for the children because you can feel their pain more intensely. Besides all the "small" human issues, such as mental issues as in this case, co…
There are other choices. Adopting a child doesn't make the world any worse, most likely improves the life of that child, and grows your own sense of a purpose in life. > Most HNers act like a quasi religious group. That is a pretty broad brush.
Maybe it grows your sense of anything, but for that child, life will never be quite right. Children who are adopted have a higher chance of developing mental disorders, alcoholism, major depression and so forth. [1] A portion of them go through a bumpy road before being adopted by the "right" parents, most are never adopted. About 140m children worldwide are orphans. [2] The event of being abandoned is already a very painful one with long-term consequences. If anything, this goes to prove my point.
Re: Why is there so much free porn on the internet? (2016)
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nah, VR porn is just getting started and that catalog is tiny. The Adult industry isn't going anywhere.
Now that we're coming back up the other side of the uncanny valley, we might still see a diminishing of human actors. Given that VR/AR is supposed to be about immersion, it is going to be hard for human actors to provide this.
We will see different human actors: movies where you can put your (or, heaven forbid, that of your ex; people won’t even need to have any explicit imagery for revenge porn.) face, birth marks, tattoos, etc. on an actor of your choice.
Re: Why is there so much free porn on the internet? (2016)
#44The top linked answer blames lack of effective copyright enforcement, but I think that the availability of rivalrous homegrown porn is at least as significant. High quality video cameras are now built into millions of phones. The performers don't require scripts, crew, or payment to appear in videos. The product doesn't need localization for global consumption -- French movies are fine for US audiences even without d…
Additionally, there are people who prefer "real sex" clips to scripted porn featuring professional porn stars.
Would that be because maybe sexual attraction to a person is based on the personality we project onto the looks and energy? And maybe within an industry you simply don't have every type of personality and that is actually really hard to fake?
Which is why some people like the amateur stuff much more.
Of course this suggests there are deep layers of emotional needs behind our sexual preferences. Which is obviously not true. It is all about the flesh. That is why porn sites only need three videos ;)
Re: Why is there so much free porn on the internet? (2016)
#45Isn’t the answer obvious? The answer is the same as the answer to the question “Why is there so much free everything on the internet?” The answer is that copying is cheap – in fact almost free – and products in markets with lots of competition tend to converge to its marginal cost, which in this case is zero.
Ok but consider, e.g., movies. Yes, there are free websites, but they're not exactly legal or mainstream in the way that free porn sites are.
With movies I am looking at watching "Dunkirk", or some other specific movie, which means there are at most a handful of movies that I want to watch at any given time, whereas with porn I typically want to watch a particular type, but there are lots of any given type of movie and it really doesn't matter if they are old or not.
Re: Why is there so much free porn on the internet? (2016)
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nah, VR porn is just getting started and that catalog is tiny. The Adult industry isn't going anywhere.
Ran into an article right after Google released Cardboard, where some students had made their own VR porn using a pair of Gopros as an experiment. They claimed that even with such a simple setup the result made them find traditional porn boring.
I know a couple people who have VR setups. There is, supposedly, a game where you have to kill a cartoon character, then cut it up to get a key. My friends are both serious gamers and have killed thousands up close (and literally billions from a distance), but they said that act made them feel really bad.
Here is a gamer talking about VR Grand Theft Auto (http://www.hardcoregamer.com/2015/04/19/grand-theft-auto-v-i...), with the same point: the emotional level is way, way more intense in VR, even crappy VR, than in normal games.
If we assume the same is the case for VR porn, I can see why the porn they made was so much more intense.
Re: Why is there so much free porn on the internet? (2016)
#47Isn’t the answer obvious? The answer is the same as the answer to the question “Why is there so much free everything on the internet?” The answer is that copying is cheap – in fact almost free – and products in markets with lots of competition tend to converge to its marginal cost, which in this case is zero.
Ok but consider, e.g., movies. Yes, there are free websites, but they're not exactly legal or mainstream in the way that free porn sites are.
I think pirate movie streaming sites are less profitable, they have much larger hosting bills and the MPAA is much more effective at getting them shut down. There's also more stigma about buying porn and we've made it pretty cheap and easy to stream normal movies these days.