breslin pretty much nails it.
Jenna Jameson?s unattainability, her Barbie-on-a-pedestal unknowability, has been replaced by an independent contractor who works from home and is paying off her college debt with your virtual tips by having virtual sex with you. She?s a bombshell or the girl next door, the naughty teacher or the punk rocker, the MILF or whatever it is that your wife isn?t, that you don?t have, that you can?t get, that brought you right here, right now, rather than watching some stale free clip on an X-rated tube site that stole their content from a porn producer who is on the verge of declaring bankruptcy in a Chatsworth office park, thanks to you.
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?What happened? The Internet came around,? Butts said. ?That changed the game. Nobody imagined these tube sites would pop up, giving away this content we fought so hard to create.?
A few feet away, his porn star girlfriend signed another autograph.
?Will recorded sex ever go away?? Butts asked rhetorically. ?No. It?s for the collector out there.?
In theory, the porn dilemma is the same as the printed-on-paper book dilemma. Some people like the feel of the pages, the smell when they open a book for the first time. Some people like the new new thing, their porn digital and interactive.
Truth be told, nobody is sure where things are heading. The sexual appetite is a tricky thing to predict, and everyone here believes whomever gets it right will be raking in the dollars.
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