History of pornography: scandalous beginning and habitual reality

By the mid-1980s, the Golden Era of Porn came to naught. By that time, the most popular porn stars appeared in hundreds of porn films or even became porn directors and producers. By the mid-1990s, it was popular to invite fashion models to appear in porn films and use hi-technologies while making such films. On the threshold of the millennium a great number of porn films appeared thus making such films more or less official and consequently boring.

Today, pornography is legalized almost in all countries with the exception of Muslim states, India, China, the Catholic states of Latin America and Russia. In Russia there is still no exact definition of pornography and where only circulation of porn is considered criminal. In general, the porn business is getting more transparent and yields high dues to the budget. Up to 500 porn films are made in the USA every year, and the annual turnover of the legal porn business makes up from 4 to 6 billion of dollars. Big companies making porn films appropriate some $15,000-20,000 per a film. And it is clear that porn business is a really profitable business when making such films does not take much money and time.

Porn is getting a really respectable business . For over ten years already, the Adult Video News magazine presents awards for achievements in porn business. The ceremony takes place in Las Vegas every year in the period between The Golden Globe and Oscar ceremonies. It is some kind of Porn Oscar.

Pornography inevitably wins its part of our everyday life. Many companies have already circulated an official prohibition of surfing porn web sites in the office. Ten-year-old children are no longer interested in sex scenes on TV and switch channels for cartoons. Does our life begin to look more like pornography?

Translated by Maria Gousseva
Pravda.ru