Yes and from my observations Camsex is popular in the gay cyber world

Les,
porn used to be a part of the advertising/fashion industry and turn up in our mail boxes. But with high speed brodband it has become a part our everyday life and is changing the way we relate to another.

Adele Horin in this article says that her long and candid interviews with women aged 25 to 50 whose partners were obsessed with pornography that was most illuminating, disclosed that the women lives had been turned upside down by their partner's online activities. Horrn says:

The same themes emerged repeatedly. The men spent hours online, searching for progressively harder core images. Family time or couple time was the first casualty. Sex lives floundered and withered away as men lost interest. Men became... "lazy lovers". In the end they could not be bothered with real-life sex. In other cases, sex lives became porn-like, male-focused, extreme and lacking in intimacy ... Women's self-esteem nose-dived. They felt they could not compete with the nymphs on screen. They did not measure up to the bodies or sexual performance of the women their men were watching.

Horin says that compared with alcohol problems, and violence/control issues in relationships, obsessive pornography use is still a second-order marriage-wrecker. Usually it is part of a constellation of problems.

Ironically, the lack of high-speed broadband in Australia has limited the penetration of internet porn's full potential into our personal lives. Slow downloading has helped maintain the popularity of old-fashioned video pornography.

I have cable bigpond broadband and have no probs viewing anything. Porn is all the same I feel. Humans are limited by the number of orifices they have so it is all the same stuff. Just with different back grounds. Occasionally someone has shoes on or some other variation. There is of course a humor element to it too.

les
porn is also big business. I notce that the porn spam coming onto the thoughtfactory weblogs increasingly refer to video. There must be hundreds of porn sites on the web.

Block spam with Akismet

Thanks.It's for Wordpress. I'm on Movable Type.

Spam is currently okay with both trackback and the older comments turned off. Hosting Matters is no longer complaining. It was over a thousand a day at one stage. It's down to around 125 now.

The spam has changed--it's no longer mostly poker. The porn is down. Online drugs are the same. Ringtones and MP3 music downloads have skyrocketed. The USA remains the biggest point of origin followed by the UK and Italy. The porn is far more disguised --as educational sites and addresses.

WOW! that is huge! Either movable type is crap or your server is.... Dont you have an option to turn on a letter code for people making comments? I havent had any in Blogger.
Sorry thought you were using a wordpress template.
Do the music ones coincide with doing music posts?

http://www.nonplus.net/software/mt/Akismet.htm

people have been making it work in other formats. There are links on the site

Les,
I think that the spam was the reason why many bloggers (including the ones in Australia) shifted to Wordpress over the last couple of years.

Movable Type was definitely targeted by the spammers. At one stage I was on a series of the three computer generated runs at one stage---ten a minute. I couldn't post because of the spam. You can see why the Hosting Company made us all upgrade. It was crashing from the spam overload.

Movable Type had to lift their game. It took them a while. It was a major upgrade--hence the facelift of the weblogs at the same time.

Les,
yes I used to have blacklist plugins before upgrading to Movable Type 3.2 last year. The plugins have now been incorporated into the publishing system itself.

Most of the spam stuff goes into a junk folders because of the extensive filters and I have to approve every genuine comment. 99% of the spam goes automatically into a junk folder then drops out into a black hole after ten days.

Sometimes genuine comments end up in the junk folder(those with blogspot.com as so much spam comes from fake blogspot.com blogs). So I have to check the spam folder a couple of times a day and reassign them.

But it works with the trackback and old comments turned off. That's a pity, as I used to get lots of good comments on some of the old junk for code posts. But the spam was too great. So was the pressure from the Hosting Company.

The big problem now is the dam spyware. Know any effective filters?

I am not aware of any that can be pinned to a blog template but think there is a market for one.

Of the free ones SpywareBlaster SpywareGuard Spybot SD and AdAware all run well together

Les,
I was thinking in terms of spyware attaching itself to the browser. I use SpywareBlaster, Spybot SD and AdAware. I do not know about SpywareGuard.

I'll check it out thanks.