Is Porn Just about Porn ?

Is porn actually just about sex ? or is there something deeper, something nastier ?

Porn occupies a 45% traffic composition of the Internet. Some figures show that its much more but lets take 45% as a bench mark. Now imagine that 45% traffic is completely cut off one fine morning. What will be the revenue loss to the ISP's. How much money will the hosting providers loose. Porn hosting is more expensive than normal hosting. Now imagine the kind of money lost on ad revenues generated by soft porn websites. So its not that porn cant be stopped its just that no one wants to stop it. Even in Arab nation where porn is a criminal offence that can get severe and incomprehensible punishments one can access porn with out much difficulty, even though all pron sites are said to be banned officially. The ISP stand to loose a lot of revenue if they have an anti porn attitude. They stand to loose reputation if the support porn so what do they do. They talk bad about porn and let pron freely flow on their networks.

Now another thing about porn is that they are front end to many scams. People use porn as the front to get credit card information and the like. Now because of the secret and illegal nature in which porn sites operates its not easy to track them down in case a fraud occurs.

Another security threat related to porn is of spy ware Trojans and the like. Many porn sites install active x etc that are very much spy ware classifiable.

Porn is not about Porn.

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