2/ There is a theory most technologists have heard of, that the porn industry is usually the first adopter of every new social technology
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3/ It is also well known that the rise of social networks spelled doom for the early Internet porn industry
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@wheatpond yeah, first-gen porn sites were almost wiped out during the rise of social networks... I remember a few talks at conferences -
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@wheatpond I don't mean porn itself got destroyed, but the *profitability* crashed dramatically
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I know, don't have time to dig up research and links... it may not be a strong argument, but it's not a vacuous one either
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timelines and traffic don't quite match. It's overdetermined. Amateur is not enough to explain correlation.
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@wheatpond No, the theory was that it's a kind of substitute product, the way any kind of community is the cure for any kind of addictionThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I think addiction has a strong genetic component (alcoholism esp has a male-line proven thing), but community prevents/contains
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