often wonder which idiot first defined porn. All our problems began right there. Pornography is what revolts the senses, raises your hackles, disrupts your sense of morality, enrages you. Right? In short, porn is vulgar, obscene, obnoxious. It corrupts society. That's why we, as a supposedly morally upright and respectable society, not only reject it but also want it outlawed. But that's exactly where the problem begins.
Anything outlawed is a Godsend for that business. It is the outlawing of porn that makes it one of the world's biggest industries, estimated at $60 billion a year. Porn revenue is larger that the combined incomes from pro soccer, baseball, basketball and cricket. But unlike other outlawed businesses (like drugs) porn flourishes because Governments react to it differently. It's a bit like gambling. Many nations encourage it because it grows tourism in their country and the locals are indifferent to it. It's exactly the way our Government reacts to tobacco. Smoking is banned everywhere but tobacco companies can run and prosper, so that the Government can earn taxes, knowing fully well it is blood money.