Porn Stars-Are We Pushing Them Too Far?

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FREE PORN SITES TRUE COST

We all know there are huge “tube sites” and “torrent sites” that people go to find free porn pictures and videos.

A survey conducted by the anti-piracy group NBT Envisional for NBC Universal stated 35.8% of all torrent downloading traffic was attributed to porn followed closely by movies at 32.5%.

According to XBIZ Research Spring 2012 guide, free porn sites are what are having the most influence on the adult industry and what you get to see or not see as the case may be.

These large sites can have literally millions of members or visitors who think they are bypassing the membership fee to adult studios by downloading clips or pictures, but at what cost?

You downloaded or clicked on the picture or clip and BAM you have just downloaded malware or spyware onto your computer and you probably never knew it. 

You know the maxim “there is no such thing as a free lunch”. Well guess what, it really is true when it comes to these particular types of sites.

“What are you talking about it is free porn so it does not cost me a thing.”

Not so fast kiddo. There is a cost and it is bigger than you may realize.

COSTS TO FREE PORN - Meaning the cost to you.

1. Free sites have to make money
So how do you suppose they do that? They employ affiliate programs that unfortunately use blackhat methods, tracker programs etc. that either redirect you to pay sites or siphon off your personal information to sell to information brokers. 

2. Slows your computer down


You know this is true because you are probably bitching right now about how slow your computer is running.

You may not be aware that when you click on these free sites that many are looking to invade your computer with their malware and access your information and you are letting them do it.

I hear your counter argument, “I keep my security anti-virus software constantly updated”. Well good for you however they can get in other ways from just the browser you are using right now.

Quotes from the site Technology Review about a Harvard based study on "Economics of Information Security" with reference to porn and security issues with these tube and torrent sites stated; "browsers were vulnerable to a known exploit in either Adobe Flash or handling of the Microsoft Office or Adobe PDF document types."

So guess what, if you have either Adobe Flash, Microsoft Office or Adobe PDF downloaded on your computer, and who doesn't, they got in!

And this goes for anything you downloaded from these "free" sites like movies, music, pictures, games etc.

You now have malware running in the background of your computer, worming its way around collecting all your information and sending it to heaven knows where and to heaven knows who. 

So do you feel like disinfecting yourself and your computer right now?  Well you should and I would recommend you do take your computer in and get the malware wiped off of it .  And when you get it back from the tech leave the "free" tube and torrent sites alone when it comes to copyrighted material.  Because like I said dear ones, there is no free lunch even on the internet.

And there is one last item I would like you to take away from this article.

3. Quality of porn goes down for everyone
Hollywood needs money to make quality movies, music artist need money to produce quality albums and porn studios need revenue to make quality porn videos. If you are looking for some inferior, lower than a snakes belly, poor quality video and malware installed on your computer I say go for the free sites. On the other hand if you want your sexual fantasy bank and head to be filled with high quality sex, beautiful models and have a porn collection actually worth bragging about then there is some cost.

Honestly the cost to these higher quality sites are really minimal when you get right down to it. With most subscriber sites less than $17.00 a month for a 6 month membership and some with $1.00 trial memberships.   For crying out loud you pay more for soda or coffee drinks!

Less than $17.00 a month!  

To have access to filling up your sexual fantasy bank, to stimulate your creative sexual brain, to see specimens of beautiful physical forms, to increase the spark in your love life with your partner, to just enjoying your own sexuality. If you can’t find that amount in your change drawer or the floor of your car you are doing something wrong folks.

And besides which is better and more long lasting, great sexual fantasies to enjoy your love life with or a.............. "Big Gulp”?

Yes I said it I know a gratuitous pun.  I could not stop my fingers before that one got out but back to serious business here.


I for one, want my online adult entertainment to make me feel better after viewing, not like I have to sanitize my keyboard afterwards. I like to fill the sensual databank in my head with beautiful bodies, beautiful scenery, enjoying the intimate pleasures of human sexuality. And I am willing to shell out the meager amount the quality adult studios are asking for in order for me to have that experience.

So please, the next time you are tempted to go to these so-called free porn sites and infect your computer with malware realize you are diminishing the porn experience for all of us by taking away the income these studios and models need to produce a quality product that they work so hard to bring us.

　
So how did we get to this point with all these free tube and porn torrent sites?
How does the industry stop all this porn piracy?
And are adult studios resulting to more extreme scenes to counteract the loss of revenue?


These and other articles coming soon so stay tuned my little ones.

Gay Bar Bans Bachelorette Parties

I was so glad to see Mr. David Cooley owner of The Abbey in Los Angeles publicly come out and take a stand against Bachelorette parties in his gay bar on CNN today.

"We love our straight girlfriends," the bar’s owner, David Cooley, said in a statement released Thursday. "But it's also a slap in the face to my customers and my life that we can't have that same celebration.

“It was just kind of, enough is enough,” The Abbey spokesman Brian Rosman told the Daily News.

I posted about this last month asking women to please call ahead to the bar they were thinking of going to and see if it was O.K. with the management before traipsing in with all their giggling girlfriends in tow to oogle the dancers and other men at the bar.

If you do not realize that a big debate is going on in this Country about marriage equality than you have been living under a rock. 

I am sad to say I am living in a State that proposed Proposition 8, Thankfully it has been overturned and it is working its way to the Supreme Court where I know eventually, if not ever so slowly, what is right and fair will win out.

Six states - New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Iowa - allow gay marriage, as does Washington, D.C. In addition, about 18,000 same-sex couples married in California during the summer of legalization in 2008, and their unions are valid regardless of the outcome of the Prop 8 case.

As a straight women who has always had the right to marry I am embarrassed, irked, annoyed and sometimes disgusted by the insensitivity we have to the LGBT community.  That is why I felt the need to post an Open Apology at the very top of this blog.

Gals, the gay community and gay bars have shown you respect by not discriminating against you and allowing you access to their bars and clubs.  And lets face it, they probably have better entertainment and dance floors than most of the straight clubs.  However it is time to show them the same respect and UNTIL they have the same right to marry as you do please stop rubbing your rights in their face and take your Bachelorette party somewhere else so we do not force these clubs to ban us.







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WINNER HOP AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA

I am sorry this took a couple days to post but that nasty thing called "work" kept interferring with what I consider the most important thing, the Hop.

I am happy to announce
K-Lee Klein of Chaos In The Moonlight blog is the

winner of $100.00 being donated in her name to PFLAG which stands for Parents Family & Friends of Lesbians and Gays a very worthy cause that welcomes even straight folks like myself. :-)
I tried to get to the over 280 some blogs who entered WOW!  Unfortunately even with staying up late each evening I was not able to get to all of them however I will be continuing to visit your blogs if you all do not mind!

Thank you once again for letting me, a person who does not even write fiction, to participate in such a worthwhile event that is very important to me.
Shadow Sterling

Hop Against Homophobia

Welcome to the Hop Against Homophobia. 

An extremely important cause that is dear to me and I appreciate being included today.

Please click on the EVENTS PAGE for details.

International Day Against Homophobia and Straight People

So straight person what are you going to do on May 17^th, named International Day Against Homophobia?


“Oh that is a day for gay people not me”………............WRONG!

The LGBT community has been assaulted by homophobia for years and most of it comes directly from the straight community. I know there are those “who protest too loudly” against same sex relationships who are probably struggling with their own sexuality but the vast majority comes from us, the straight community.

This is a day that “we” the straight community need to do more than just pay lip service to our views of equality for all.  It is a day to get out of your comfort zone and do something positive for your LGBT community.

There are still places in the U.S. and around the world where you can be denied housing, lose your job, be beaten, jailed and even put to death for being gay.  You know this is true!

The LGBT community have worked hard enough, they are tired and they need your help!

 WHAT CAN YOU DO?

1. Reach out to someone you know is gay or being bullied and say you are sorry.

2. Join Straight For Equality and read what they have been so kind to write for us.

3. Post something positive on your blog, Twitter, FB page. This is not a day to give any time to those who are seeking negative attention.

4. Send a letter and/or donation to a local LGBT outreach organization. It takes so little to turn someone’s day around.

WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?
I am going to spend the day apologizing.

If just one person hears me or reads this and believes it to be sincere and from my heart then I feel I may have taken a tiny step in the right direction.

AN OPEN APOLOGY
I am straight and I am sorry for taking for granted all the entitlement and privileges I receive in this world that you do not.

I am sorry for the cruel things I said to you in school.
I am sorry my thoughtlessness embarrassed you in front of others.
I am sorry for not extending my hand in friendship when I could have.
I am sorry for the tasteless jokes I said at the office.
I am sorry I made your work environment tough to go to each day.
I am sorry for the thoughtless comments you overheard me say to others.
I am sorry if your family did not support you when you came out or even rejected you.
I am sorry that you have to always be careful what you say around me.
I am sorry that I made you feel less of a man or woman.
I am sorry this is too little and too late in coming.
I am sorry.


I was wrong and you did not deserve any of it.

With great respect,

Shadow Sterling
　



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(If you know of someone who is hurting and you think this apology might help, please feel free to pass it on)

Acknowledgments
1.  http://www.towleroad.com/2012/05/clintonbullying.html
2.  http://www.towleroad.com/2012/05/gay-iowa-hs-student-acted-as-anonymous-twitter-angel-for-fellow-bullied-teens.html
3.  http://dan14lev.deviantart.com/journal/Homophobic-ToMyUnbornChild-tweets-turned-into-PSA-294126272
4.  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120406234458.htm
5.  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/homophobic-maybe-youre-gay.html?_r=2&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y
6.  http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/NCAA/Resources/Latest+News/2012/April/Athlete+Ally+-+Hudson+Taylor+tackles+homophobia
7.  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/sports/hockey/08avery.html?ref=sports
8.  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/sports/two-straight-athletes-combat-homophobia.html?pagewanted=all
9.  https://twitter.com/#!/homophobes
10. http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2011/05/163529.htm
11. http://www.adl.org/hate-patrol/homophobia.asp
12. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/assault/etc/quiz.html
13. http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/sexual_prejudice.html
14. http://www.endhomophobia.org/homophobia.htm
15. http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2012/04/international-day-againt-homophobia-and.html


 

Gay Adult Stars - The Human Side

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