Posted on 06/20/2003 1:42:28 PM PDT by webber
Dr. Stephen Brockway, is a psychiatrist who says he has patients who spend 10 hours at a time on the Internet viewing pornography, "they don't eat, don't sleep," he said. "We call the Internet the crack cocaine of sex addiction."
University of Pennsylvania psychologist Mary Ann Layden warns, that when introduced to the brain, pornography can become "an addictive substance...that's harder for the porn addict to go into remission than the cocaine addict."
WHEN DO WE SAY "ENOUGH"?
Will it be when our children and grandchildren are destroyed because due to years of viewing illegal smut?
Will it be when our spouses, pastors, and friends blow up their careers and lives because they've been secretly addicted to online pornography--the same garbage that fills our email inboxes everyday?
THE VERDICT IS IN ...
How much longer will be wait before Americans march on Washington demanding action on a disease that has truly taken hold of our nation? Do we dare wait until it touches our loved ones?
According to the experts, it may already have, and you just don't yet know about it.
THE TIME IS NOW TO ACT.
The truth is we can't wait any longer. The Internet is literally exploding with unsolicited porn spam messages-- messages that are coming faster and more furious than ever-- each expertly crafted to seduce and corrupt! No, we can't wait any longer. That's precisely why Grassfire is asking for your help.
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Over the next 90 days, we want to raise an army of 450,000 citizens who are demanding an end to addictive and destructive illegal porn spam messages.
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Why is it that people who know the least say it the loudest?
That's the kindest way I can respond to that BS.
About 2 years ago, I found a site that listed the radio stations in the area where I now live.
About a month ago I used the very same link and got a porn site.
Please send me your definition of "random", please.
...IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE SO ALREADY ...
Ok. It took a while, but I'm now up-to-date on Internet porn.
What next?
I've noticed this phenomenon, and there's an interesting irony to it. Domain-grabbers like you describe not only make themselves an offensive nuisance of themselves, but they make money by scamming porn producers.
Essentially, what happens is that a porn producer contracts with XYZ Adult Advertising, owners of lotsahornygirls.com, to advertise to their site. Seems fair enough--anyone who visits lotsahornygirls.com is probably looking for porn, and so would seem like a good advertising candidate, right?
The problem is that after getting some advertising contracts lined up, the people at XYZ Adult Advertising pull a little bait-and-switch. They redirect many non-adult-related domains to point to lotsahornygirls.com, thus generating many 'ad impressions' for which they can then bill their clients. Never mind that their clients had agreed to an ad impression rate on the basis that the ads would only be shown to a targeted audience. Now the ads get shown to a much larger audience, and XYZ Advertising now gets to bill for $$$$$.
I suspect this gambit is probably getting old, and that many porn producers are nowadays unwilling to fall for it. I haven't seen many non-porn domains get redirected to porn advertising sites lately, so perhaps porn producers are starting to insist in their contracts that they don't have to pay for "gimmicked" impressions. I wonder, though, if most porn spam is an offshoot of this trick [offer targetted impressions at $0.05 each, then spam everybody on the planet]. If so, it won't be long before porn producers refuse to fall for that game either.
As soon as some routers decide not to carry the .xxx domain, pornographers would refuse to keep their sites there on the basis that they had a right to distribute their wares to anyone who wanted to receive them.
I would suggest that the biggest problem today, though it doesn't seem as big as a couple years ago, is that there is are many "advertising" companies that scam porn producers into paying for "targeted" impressions and clickthroughs that are anything but (occasionally even using javascript or other gimmicks to force clickthroughs!). See post #84.
The fact of the matter is that real porn producers, as opposed to the ad-scammers, don't really benefit from having uninterested people directed to their site--there isn't any money in that. I suspect that while Internet porn will always exist, many of the more pernicious aspects will fade away as porn producers learn to avoid spam-scammers.
Funny but I don't have a mailbox full of porn everyday. Of course, I don't give my email address to free porn sites either. Wonder if there's a connection.
Many porn ad-scammers get their email addresses from the same sorts of places as everyone else. Or they just guess.
I have a hotmail account whose address I've only ever given out to one other person, and yet it gets a few spams a week, some of the porn-related (and I really don't think the other person had anything to do with it). I guess hotmail accounts are just magical spam magnets.
In other words, you posted prematurely. I think they have medicines now for that. At least that's what one of the spammers promised.
Just like aids. It only takes one virus to cause fool blown AIDS which leads to death. One exposure to Cocaine can make you an addict. So too much can be "One Time Exposure".
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