As unnerving as it was for a young guy to try and cajole the pharmacist to sell him a pack of condoms, so to was it slightly off-putting for any of us-man or woman or any age-to go to through the swinging doors at the back of the video store, try to avoid the glance of the video store owner and peruse those specific porn titles. Though surely a rite of passage for any adult doing so, looking for tapes this way was always embarrassing.
Delivery methods for our dirty fare have changed greatly because of the net. Now we can sit at home and just about stream anything we want with no one watching. We can choose from a list of titles that weren’t even available years ago, let alone one’s we would ever even think about bringing up to the local video store proprietor less he or she think you a real perv for wanting a tape on nuns who spank!
These days we can download to our PDA’s and have a little private jack off session at work if we can find the time. We can shoot over a clip to a guy or girl we are trying to seduce or go online with a partner to enjoy something in tandem. It might have been fun trying to get porn in the old days and we might have had to screw-up our courage as well as ingenuity but these days things are infinitely easier. And we certainly don’t have to pay for all this stuff the way we used to, let alone worry about getting a tape back in time or not wearing it out from two much rewinding!
As the porn industry struggles to adapt to the changes the net has brought to viewing, one thing is for certain…we never have to worry about anyone ever knowing about our porn choices or frequency of viewing ever again. Porn will never leave the cultural landscape but we have to leave our houses less and less to view it.
