by Avalon » Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:09 am
You've also got to factor in the inescapable fact that with the rise of consumer-priced digital cameras there is a vast increase in the amount of sexually-explicit amateur photography.<br><br>Back in the old days (i.e., more than about 10 years ago) if you wanted to take amateur dirty pictures you'd either have to have a home darkroom, use Polaroids, or have access to a discreet service which would develop and print your negatives. It's not something you would do in your town, where you would not want the drugstore staff seeing exactly which nekkid ladies you were being artistic with, or where you might get busted for more explicit shots.<br><br>Now it's a moment's work to send pictures of people fucking all over the globe, or burn them to a disk. The younger people are, the more likely they've had experience fooling around with a cancorder or digital camera in a sexual context. <br><br>The more likely people are to have done it or looked at the results, the more it becomes a norm.<br><br>The more it becomes accepted as the norm, the less people are likely to contemplate where the boundaries might be, and if there are lines they shouldn't have crossed.<br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>