by lawnchair » Sun 09 Mar 2008, 17:13:33
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('phaster', 'p')orn they say is the oldest profession in the world...... so I thought I'd ask post peak oil is porn going to be the #1 growth industry, or are people going be preoccupied with boring basic stuff, like trying to find work, grow food, and haul water?
Porn is in no way the oldest profession. That'd be prostituting. Porn typically means "art" (of a sense)... though I guess peep show, strip club, and burlesque could be defined as porn (typically we don't think of them as such). Chimps and bonobos whore (sexual favors for food or delousing). They don't do porn.
In theory, porn should be huge in a collapse. In a really deep depression, halfway smart guys will be avoiding the "I wanna be romanced", "I wanna have kids right now", "I want a pretty rock" women. If they are managing to do more than keep themselves fed, such snares will be everywhere. There are other kinds of useful awesome women, of course, but they're rare gems. Two questions. Will the real oldest profession (prostitution) make a huge comeback with tens of thousands of unemployed women? And can porn actually make money in a depression? There is a vast amount of free porn available. Is the difference between "paid" and "free" porn significant enough when you're flat out broke?
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')a related question, not politically correct question, as it stand 2/3 of american are over weight, but if ya look at models they are all skinny, in a post peak oil world, where food won't be as inexpensive as it is now, will plump chicks be looked at as being sexy? (I assume of course that in a post peak oil world cheap food will be a long ago memory, and 2/3 of the population will be under-fed).
Bigger women were the ideal in most of the Third World up till even 30 years ago. Then, a global media was finally perfected and influenced by Western (American) taste and put out Twiggy and Kate Moss. Still, watch your Univision TV presenters. Lot more curves than American TV baseline, even though less than a decade ago on Univision.