Whenever I mention my occupation to a non-wired person,
it seems to generate the same response:
"Isn't there an awful lot of porn on the net?"
The question floats toward me like a smoke ring and forms
a halo around my face, framing me as a pornographer,
nymphomaniac, and all-round corrupter of innocence.
I expect that from my mother, but it's not the public image
I strive to cultivate. I never have a good response ready.
"Hmmm," I nod coquettishly, "I'll have to look into that."
The subtext of my vapid reply could be "Yes, the internet
is a modern-day Gomorrah and I'm in it up to my quivering
loins," or, "I really haven't heard that, but I'm so
pathetically hard-up that I'm gonna race right home and
look."
Neither is what I mean to convey, but the truth is probably
just as perverse...
I've never really looked into sex on the net.
I always plan to, but I never do. I think I've always been
very nervous about what I might find. Who knows? Maybe I
myself would become corrupted - lured into the nether regions
of psycho-sexual depravity and cyber-sensual abandon...
never, perhaps, to return.
(I shudder at the thought. Several times.)
Well, that sort of cloistered naiveté is fine when you're
just peddling software and minding your own business, but
now that I'm prancing around like an e-marketing guru, I
no longer have the luxury of ignoring so large and infamous
a part of our venue.
THE DARING SEXPLORATIONS OF LINDA COX!
I have shifted into my Lara Croft/Wonder Woman Intrepid
Female Explorer persona and I am now going to begin my
Conradian trek into the internet's dark interior.
Wish me luck. Here goes...
Okay, I'm back. Thanks for waiting. I'm prepared to report
now.
Yep, it seems that there IS some sexual content on the
internet. (Drink, please.) Rather a lot, in fact. (Make
it a double.) Funny I never noticed before. (Is it warm
in here?) Actually, it's amazing there's room for anything
else. (WHERE'S THAT FREAKIN' DRINK!?)
Here's what I learned...
1. I can never don my Lara Croft/Wonder Woman alter-ego
again now that I've seen them locked together in
alt.sex.binaries.lesbian.actionheroes in a bout of
no-holes-barred lovemaking.
2. Acts I consider sexually extreme and taboo, many people
consider warm-up.
3. I will never use a public restroom or changing room again.
I will never wear a skirt in public again. I will never look
at many salad ingredients the same way again.
4. Certain professions should strictly enforce a much earlier
mandatory retirement age.
5. Everything is a sex toy to someone... EVERYthing.
6. I found Howard Sprague's private diary online. Goober and
Floyd I always suspected, but Otis, Barney, how could you?
7. Bondage is a cottage industry. I'm not sure what BDSM is,
but it looks pretty damn uncomfortable.
8. I accidentally learned how Vinnie, my pizza delivery kid,
made ends meet before landing his present gig.
9. Some things are better left unshaven.
10. She-males are the damnedest thing since Mike the Headless
Chicken.
THE GODS OF INTERNET MARKETING
Adult website marketers are the most in-your-face,
take-no-prisoners, knock-down drag-out rock 'n roll marketers
on earth. If I could sell software the way they sell sex, I'd
be living on my own island.
IN PRAISE OF CENSORSHIP
Frankly, I very much oppose adult content on the internet. I
think it should be legislated out of existence. Here's why:
Sex is the fire in the belly of civilization. If we allow it
to become so commonplace that everyone gives up the hot and
frenzied pursuit of it, then humanity will just go sit on the
couch and watch pro wrestling. And then where will we be?
Sitting on the couch watching pro wrestling, that's where!
About the Author
Linda Cox (J.A.M.G.) is Just Another Marketing Guru.
http://www.LindaCox.com/
