60 Minutes Sinks To A New Low: "Porn in the USA"

[Yavin4]

They're covering porn in the USA. Wow. They need the ratings that bad?

[sasquatch]

1. I think the Fundy's have something to do with this

They're trying to make Porn look like drugs and have it made illegal.

[Yavin4]

2. Here's The Thing

If regular, mainstream entertainment would openly portray nudity and sex as a regular part of the human experience, then porn wouldn't have a market.

[brainshrub]

4. There will ALWAYS be a market for porn

All guys look at porn. Guys with hot girlfriends, guys with ugly girlfriends, single guys, married guys, gay guys, straight guys.

The only ones who don't look at some type of porn on a regular basis are:

1) Liars.
2) Repressed Conservatives.
3) Blind people.

[VelmaD]

5. News flash...

girls dig porn too. Girls with hot boyfriends. Girls with ugly boyfriends. Single girls. Married girls. Lesbian girls. Straight girls.

:-)

[brainshrub]

7. I didn't believe that until about a week ago.

I caught my gf watching porn. I was like :O

It wasn't that I had a problem with it, it's just that I didn't know she liked it! (After a year of being with someone you'd think you would know something like that.)

[VelmaD]

9. Lucky Boy

Good for her. Porn ROCKS!

And what do you mean you "caught" her?

[brainshrub]

10. Cultural conditioning to feel shame.

She was hiding her porn-habit from me! She told me that while she knew that I wouldn't care, but she still felt shame for enjoying porn.

Just goes to show how deeply ingrained cultural conditioning can be.

[BiggJawn]

11. So, now you enjoy it together?

That's so sweet! actually, I'm envious. My GF says "I'm no prude", but she's not an adventuress, either...

[Endangered Specie]

18. hey, at least you can watch porn now too!

If she can watch it, so can you!!

[oustemnow]

13. even girls with chicken pox?

sorry, couldn't resist.

As a member of the adult industry profession, I thank you for your patronage.

[benddem]

8. I'm sorry

I am neither of your categories. It doesn't interest me. O8)

[Wonk]

3. $$$$$$$$$$ GM $$$$$$$$$$ Time Warner $$$$$$$$$$

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/21/60minutes/main585049.shtml

[BiggJawn]

14. I'll make the fundys a DEAL...

They find me a never-ending supply of women who can't get enough and I PROMISE to never look at another dirty pictue again...

What? No deal? Why did I expect as much...

[Atman]

6. Actually interesting, because it is about the Ashcroft JD

I admit, I posted this on an infamous Yahoo board named for the objects covered by those blue drapes, but I thought it actually was better suited for DU..

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Ashcroft's Blue Drapes On 60 Minutes

...as a milestone on the journey of this administration to "reign in" runaway pornography.

One prosecutor opined, in a bizarre twist of logic about the reason for the boom in porn's popularity, is that even though society tolerates porn, it doesn't mean they accept it.

Huh? WTF kind of argument is that?

Although, I suppose you make that argument about Microsoft Windows, too.

[Superfly]

12. I thought it was pretty well done...

and I enjoyed watching it.

[NashVegas]

16. Cute :)

I'm somewhat bothered by the idea of the porn industry being controlled by stockholders. If anyone thinks it exploits workers now, just wait.

Just the idea of the blue-chips getting dependent on porn for profits gives me the willies. (no pun intended :)

[rumguy]

15. It gave equal time to both sides

and it went to a porn trade show and interviewed regular people that had come to see the spectacle...

It made some good points at the end...like what is the community standard when people download it over the internet?

[NashVegas]

17. Newsflash: Porn Built the Internet (Kinda)

Not for colleges and gov/military, no, but the rest of us. You didn't think ISPs and Usenet/IRC server holders (especially the latter two) were making money on dial-ups during the 1990s, did you?

[Endangered Specie]

19. Porn is good for you.

In Holland, when they legalized porno, sex crimes dropped some 30%+ and violent crimes dropped too.

[Endangered Specie]

20. And porn helped build p2p too.

Ill bet you can find more porn than mp3's on any given p2p (especially emule)