The obligatory sex video once held the casual pornography viewer as well as the ardent connoisseur in an iron-fist grip of aching need; where to buy it, affording the tape, where to watch it even, were all deep concerns. These days a naughty video is viewed more as a collector’s item, obsolete really in the way we view dirty images, certainly an old paradigm of the way we buy and view or porn. People are not halting their viewing of men and women getting it on, have no less an interest in cum shots, oral sex and all manner of nasty activities and fetishes, it is just nowadays we can get all this stuff easier than renting a tape.

As we grew from 8-millimeter to triple x movie fare, to home video to straight-to-video features, so now do we view what we view across our PC screens in the privacy of our own homes. As all other businesses progress in some way or die on the vine, digital technology made the selling, distributing and production of the modern day porn films a wholly different business then it was even five years ago, let alone from way back in the day when stag films were produced for bachelor party viewing. Pornographers today realize that current technology renders old idea obsolete, that the time is well passed to ruminate over the changes in the business, that even when one idea is being tried another, better, faster and newer one is being considered. In all business this quicker-than-you-can-think-it mentality exists but never stronger than in the world of providing visual stimuli for masturbation. Technology is both a blessing-for those who wish to assimilate and dissect these images at and ever faster cheaper rate-or a curse-for those trying to sell their porn downloads to an audience who can get all that sucking and fucking for free if they wish to.

The scenarios, images and ideas of the classic fuck show will never go out of style. As a culture we like our naughty images and will forever search for them from various sources. It is not a question of what do about the production of dirty movies as much as how to produce and distribute a good sex film and how to create something ever newer that people will be willing to pay for.