Porn: Classic or Dud?

completely uncomfortable with the fact that people were masturbating to the magazines, which is bizarre and funny/sad.

They sounded like a bunch of jerks who worked for magazine companies and weren't thrilled about working on those particular ones, but I'm not sure. There was something that seemed similar to me when Jon Ronson interviewed a man from Pornhub who seemed offended when Ronson said he worked in porn.

Is there still a magazine market out there? I admit I haven't been to a shady newsstand in decades. I get the New Yorker and I have an Atlantic online subscription but I do not know about the print porn scene.

So, like, is there still a Chic? Or Playgirl, Penthouse, Oui? This was the stuff of distant fantasy when I was perhaps 13 in 1984.

There's a pretty good interview with Dian Hanson on youtube, she was an influential porn magazine editor and for the last 2 decades she's been editing a large chunk of Taschen's sex books and some of their art books. She said that the male porn editors she taken over from tended to resent the audience and be completely uncomfortable with the fact that people were masturbating to the magazines, which is bizarre and funny/sad.

― Robert Adam Gilmour

honestly being in denial about the actual effects of what they're being paid to do sounds really on-brand for cis dudes

So, like, is there still a Chic? Or Playgirl, Penthouse, Oui? This was the stuff of distant fantasy when I was perhaps 13 in 1984.

― The Royal House of Hangover (Ye Mad Puffin)

no idea, but the fetish mags all shut down ages ago afaik. everything is online now.

The corner store nearest me has old school porn mags on a rack behind the counter - the old titles like Juggs and Barely Legal. Don't know if they're new and in print or just from a warehouse somewhere.

I think the magazine I edited from 2000-2005 (yes, I was making pornography on 9/11) is still extant. But I haven't been in a Hudson News in a while so I'm not 100% sure.

I just checked and the magazines I stopped paying attention to almost a decade ago are still going, maybe on a less frequent basis. I'm really surprised.

Don't know if they're new and in print or just from a warehouse somewhere.

probably AI-generated

I think the magazine I edited from 2000-2005 (yes, I was making pornography on 9/11) is still extant. But I haven't been in a Hudson News in a while so I'm not 100% sure.

"... They hate our freedom to splooge in the privacy of our homes, whenever we want."

https://action.aclu.org/petition/mastercard-sex-work-work-end-your-unjust-policy

That would mean not only sites like Reddit and Twitter would have to verify everyone’s age and identity, and expose visitors to government surveillance, but also sites like Wikipedia, eBay, Amazon and Google.

But consumers hate it, and it’s wildly expensive. So the end result pic.twitter.com/ezKyO4J91U

— Mike Stabile (@mikestabile) March 26, 2024

Gonna need some First Amendment cases to go the right way.

That tweet assumes that the value of Reddit/Twitter/etc. aren’t tied so heavily to porn that they’ll acquiesce and not fight back. Reddit just went public, the executives have a duty to shareholders keep it filled with boobs.

They all saw what happened to Tumblr.

first they came be(for)e the porn aficionados

Here's where AI can fill in the gap. "Chat GTPorn, gimme Trent Lott getting rimmed by Benito Mussolini."

I'm curious how successful even authoritarian states are at keeping out porn. Or maybe they don't really care, as long as it's not subversive. But, like, Iran must devote some effort to blocking porn, right?

(per some quick googling, yes, Iran is apparently quite good at keeping out porn)

the porn is coming from within the house