The rise of (DIY) do-it-yourself porn is hurting the mainstream industry as increasing numbers of “amateurs” use the internet to upload homemade sex videos. Traditional porn stars are being replaced by everyday people who upload porn to sites like Reddit or build up a fan following through live web cam sites such as Chaturbate. But the real change in pornography is the number of people who are doing it for no payment at all. Back when I was in porn, during the 1990s, there were probably a couple of hundred women willing to become porn actress and about one hundred men in gay porn. Now, there are thousands; in the “amateur” sphere there are tens-of-thousands. Those heady days when porn-queen Jenna Jameson, according to an interview she once did with Forbes.com, was making $50,000 a week are long gone. But this has nothing to do with Americans watching or buying less porn, but on the willingness of the public to expose their every sexual act to millions on the internet…for free! So-called tube sites - that imitate YouTube and allow anyone to upload content - have doubled in a year to over 1,000. Since the VCR-porn revolution in the 90s, and then porn’s takeover of the internet in the late-90s and early-00s, people have become so completely saturated with hardcore porn, and the seemingly innocent and respectable soft-core porn in the main-stream media, that becoming a part of the pornographic reality is something entirely natural. Shame no longer exists; morality no longer exists…soon society will no longer exist.
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