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From what I've read no matter how it was implemented either side would have tried to kill it.

Edit: Found a better link: http://www.businessvoyeur.com/2007-01-08/xxx-resurfaces

The big questions are:
1) What content is forced to move and what stays as .com (or whatever)?
2) Do any sites get both?
3) Who decides?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4606125.stm
Move all "adult content to .xxx and the ACLU fights it:
http://news.com.com/Porn-friendly+.xxx+domains+approved/2100-1030_3-5728713.html
Don't move all "adult content to .xxx and the "Religious right" fights it:
http://news.com.com/Bush+administration+objects+to+.xxx+domains/2100-1028_3-5833764.html

 

Not necessarily true since many markets (where I am anyway) have relatively little competition and what is here is just variants of the same package.

 

My understanding is that registering a .xxx domain is completly voluntary. No one is forced to do so. The advantage for the site is that it clearly shows what they have to offer and makes is easier for them to argue that they are not marketing to minors. I think most adult sites what to do their trade legally and be left alone and this should make it easier for them to do that.

 

@Cthippo: Check out the (edited in) link in post 41. It looks like the porn industry is as much against .xxx as anyone.

Still, I think it would be good if a compromise could be reached (although I can see why both sides oppose it).

 

QFT!

As for this porn addiction thing, what a crock.
It seems these days people can be addicted to anything.
At least cigarettes & booze have chemically-addictive ingredients.

Porn however is not ingested or chemically addictive and so to be addicted to it I'm thinking you'd have to be severely weak-willed.

Now, forgetting for one minute that I think porn-addiction is horsesh*t, what could we possibly do to make the addict's lives easier?
As someone said, sex sells, and as such, there's always going to be a skantily clad girl ready to sell you beer.
There's always going to be euphamistic BJs in flake adverts.

Until sex no longer sells, and there's a massive shift in human nature away from being interested in sex, porn and sexual imagery in general, we're going to have these kinds of images around us.

Imagine for a moment we managed to ban all sexual imagery, and our rehabilitated porn-addict is living happily ever after with his wife.
He's feeling all loved-up and they start hugging.
One thing leads to another and all of a sudden they're consummating their marriage.
Next thing you know he's got images in his head of things other than his wife and OH MY GOD, THE ADDICTION IS BACK!!!

Only problem is, he can't just go the the hun and get his fix of fornicating midgets or slutty housewives.
What to do?
Maybe become a peeping Tom?
Start making his own porn?
Either way, it becomes an itch that can't be scratched.

Meanwhile, back on planet earth, we're never going to be able to ban and remove porn , ban skimpy clothing, prevent attractive men/women being born and growing to adulthood.

So how about these 'addicts' give themselves a shake and wake up.
If it wasn't porn they were addicted to it'd be something else.
How about we ban them from owning a PC or using the internet and put them on the sex-offenders register for their own protection?
Hell, send them to join those quaker types that don't have electricity, that'd be their salvation sorted.

 

The question everybody is asking themselves right now is...

¿Who is the actress from the pic that illustrates the article? (yeah, the " C'mon, kid, you know you want to look..." and I, for one, want to take a look)

¿Which movie?

There's some serious corruption awaiting my mind in that pic...

 

Porn does produce chemicals in the brain (I can't for the life of me remember which ones) but people become addicted to those chemicals and that sensation.

 

seratonin, endorfins etc?

I see your point, but you get these chemicals secreted whenever you do something that you like, which excites you, when you drink coffee/red bull etc.

Alcohol, nicotine, heroin etc are chemically addictive.

I'm not a head-shrink but I think if you're getting addicted to something like porn, your head needs some serious examination.

I bet Nexxo would know more of the facts behind this...