Sunday, November 13, 2005
Renting My Breast
So, I'm just wondering, where do you rent adult DVDs and video tapes? I patronize a small locally owned porn shop, as well as a Castle Superstore in the city where I live. There are other porn shops here of course, but these two places offer the best selection and the lowest rental prices. Unfortunately, both establishments are quite a drive from down town, where I reside. But I guess I shouldn't complain, I'm lucky. There are small towns in America where you simply cannot find wackers to rent at all.
It's becoming more and more difficult to find those few businesses that allow you to check out an adult film for the weekend. Just a few years ago, as the Religious Right Wackos began taking over and disrupting the American way of life, standard video rental outlets like Blockbuster, Premiere and Hollywood Video stopped offering porn. Remember not so long ago when you would head to the video store, pick up a thriller, a comedy, maybe something for the kids, and then select a couple jack-off flicks for later on Saturday night? Those days are over. The corporations have bowed to the conservative Culture Nazis, those righteous few who feel the need to control what you and I can and cannot watch in the privacy of our own homes.
Pornography is a multi-million dollar industry just in the US alone, so why were these companies so easily persuaded to give up this income? Frankly, I have no idea. Did they really feel that any adverse publicity supplied by The Picketing Hypocrites would hurt the entire video rental business? Apparently they did, the warning signs announcing the adult section (no one under 18 permitted) disappeared relatively quickly over the course of two or three years.
Even small "mom and pop" grocery stores and 7-11 type convenience stores that feature video rentals have discontinued offering stroke flicks. Is there any corporation in America today (other than cable networks and major hotel chains) that condone and allow adult films in their rental racks? None that I know of.
The city where I live decided to take this affront to the First Amendment a step further. Five or six years ago, the City Council passed a law declaring adult boutiques could not be within 5,000 yards (or some absurdly lengthy distance like that) of any school or place of worship. Within the city limits, that leaves three small approximately two or three block areas for these businesses to survive. Why do the City Council and the Religious Fundamental Extremists want to prevent legal commerce, stopping tax revenue from coming into the government coffers?
It seems to me America was built on capitalism, and if these businesses thrive, then that's an indication there's an audience for this kind of product. Needless to say, I don't condone child porn; of course I believe it should be illegal. But is it really so important to The Right that we don't watch consenting adults doing whatever they want to do with each other? Well, yes, I suppose it is. I guess we've always known that. It's just as important to them to know what we're viewing as it is that they know what we're doing. I mean, after all, according to them remember, homosexuals shouldn't marry. And, they believe, no one should worship in any way other than how they worship their "Christian God."
I'm grateful for the internet, that's all I have to say. You can download, rent and buy anything you want at any hour of the day or night. You can even purchase things from other parts of the world, things you'd never be able to find in any video outlet anywhere in the US. Boy, that must send our Bigoted Big Brothers (in the 1984 sense) right over the edge.
Okay, Okay, I'll end the political diatribe now. Let's get back to jacking-off to hot, open-minded people doing really nasty things to each other. If we can find some place to rent it.
It's becoming more and more difficult to find those few businesses that allow you to check out an adult film for the weekend. Just a few years ago, as the Religious Right Wackos began taking over and disrupting the American way of life, standard video rental outlets like Blockbuster, Premiere and Hollywood Video stopped offering porn. Remember not so long ago when you would head to the video store, pick up a thriller, a comedy, maybe something for the kids, and then select a couple jack-off flicks for later on Saturday night? Those days are over. The corporations have bowed to the conservative Culture Nazis, those righteous few who feel the need to control what you and I can and cannot watch in the privacy of our own homes.
Pornography is a multi-million dollar industry just in the US alone, so why were these companies so easily persuaded to give up this income? Frankly, I have no idea. Did they really feel that any adverse publicity supplied by The Picketing Hypocrites would hurt the entire video rental business? Apparently they did, the warning signs announcing the adult section (no one under 18 permitted) disappeared relatively quickly over the course of two or three years.
Even small "mom and pop" grocery stores and 7-11 type convenience stores that feature video rentals have discontinued offering stroke flicks. Is there any corporation in America today (other than cable networks and major hotel chains) that condone and allow adult films in their rental racks? None that I know of.
The city where I live decided to take this affront to the First Amendment a step further. Five or six years ago, the City Council passed a law declaring adult boutiques could not be within 5,000 yards (or some absurdly lengthy distance like that) of any school or place of worship. Within the city limits, that leaves three small approximately two or three block areas for these businesses to survive. Why do the City Council and the Religious Fundamental Extremists want to prevent legal commerce, stopping tax revenue from coming into the government coffers?
It seems to me America was built on capitalism, and if these businesses thrive, then that's an indication there's an audience for this kind of product. Needless to say, I don't condone child porn; of course I believe it should be illegal. But is it really so important to The Right that we don't watch consenting adults doing whatever they want to do with each other? Well, yes, I suppose it is. I guess we've always known that. It's just as important to them to know what we're viewing as it is that they know what we're doing. I mean, after all, according to them remember, homosexuals shouldn't marry. And, they believe, no one should worship in any way other than how they worship their "Christian God."
I'm grateful for the internet, that's all I have to say. You can download, rent and buy anything you want at any hour of the day or night. You can even purchase things from other parts of the world, things you'd never be able to find in any video outlet anywhere in the US. Boy, that must send our Bigoted Big Brothers (in the 1984 sense) right over the edge.
Okay, Okay, I'll end the political diatribe now. Let's get back to jacking-off to hot, open-minded people doing really nasty things to each other. If we can find some place to rent it.
