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by Manuel_D 1265 days ago
Pornography has historically been about as accessible as any other form of media. At first it was limited to hand-drawn on paper [1] (just like any other content before the printing press). Woodblock and later cooper-plate printing made it easier to mass produce (just like everything else). Photography was almost immediately used to produce pornography, as was motion picture film. And of course, the internet made it drastically easier to distribute digitally.

In short, pornography has always followed the existing means of media production and distribution.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turin_Erotic_Papyrus

1 comments

I agree with you, but quantity takes on a quality of its own.

By analogy, sweet fruits and honey have been around and universally enjoyed since the dawn of time.

Yet, guzzling down gallons of high-fructose-corn-syrup each day is relatively new and has made half of the population obese.