Author: GeneKGeneK Date: May 9, 2007 22:55
"Steven L." earthlinkNOSPAM.net> wrote...
> 50 years???
> Try HUNDREDS of years! :-)
>
> It's a historical fact that when Marconi's newfangled radios were first
> installed on U.S. Navy warships in the 19th century, the first thing
> that the crews did with them was use them to send "personal" messages to
> their girlfriends back in the States.
>
> And the first porn films were made circa 1900, shortly after motion
> picture cameras were developed. It appears that porn filmmakers were
> the first to pioneer the techniques of extreme closeups (guess why):
All true, but the key word here is "consumer." Home wireless sets
and movie cameras were pretty rare in the 19th century, and even
in the 20th most folks had to send film out for processing. Instant
and digital photography and video produced an unprecedented
expansion in the sheer volume of porn in the world today.
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