Episode 19: The Online Porn Episode
Listen (23 min, 26 seconds)Pornography is always a contentious issue and never more so with the introduction of easily accessible, anonymous online porn that one can now get piped anonymously into ones house. The numbers are boggling: in America the porn industry makes over twelve billion dollars in revenue every year and the global porn revenue is close to ninety-six billion dollars. In the time it took to read this paragraph nearly one hundred thousand people could be found surfing online porn sites.
In this week’s episode of The Digital Edge we look at the medium that pushed the Internet into the mainstream despite still being something most people will not admit to taking part in. In this episode we speak to Wendy Maltz, a sex therapist from America to get her views on online porn as well as how easy it is for people to get addicted to the medium. We then speak to Silas Howarth, the organiser of the Sexpo to give us a slightly more “pro-porn” opinion. To round off we get the opinion of various people on the street to see what they think about porn. These anonymous contributors talk on varied topics such as the economics behind porn, their distaste for the medium and how often they watch porn.
Also joining us is Joey Da Silva of Cape Town based, web and mobile application developer, Formfunction in our Agency of the week section. Antonio Petra joins us for the last time this week to give us a summary of all we’ve learnt about online measurement. Our top ten this week is ten movie names repurposed for porn movies. As always we’re also joined by Kerry-Anne Gilowey with the news where this week we discuss politics.
Guests:
Wendy Maltz
Wendy Maltz LCSW, DST is an internationally recognized author, speaker, and sex therapist. Her books include The Porn Trap, The Sexual Healing Journey, Private Thoughts, Passionate Hearts, Intimate Kisses, and Incest & Sexuality. Wendy’s highly acclaimed videos are Relearning Touch and Partners in Healing. Wendy and Larry Maltz LCSW, an esteemed therapist with more than 25 years of experience, provide counseling services at Maltz Counseling Associates in Eugene, Oregon.
Silas Howarth
Silas is the Director of Expoworks, the company that brings Sexpo to South Africa. When he isn't organising the show he's off placating rabid Christians outside of the exhibitions.
Joey Da Silva
Joey da Silva is the founder and CEO of the web and mobile application development company FormFunction. His 12 years experience comprising web design and development, business analysis, project and operations management. His entrepreneurial drive and passion to find new opportunities through technology makes him an innovator in the social media field, a leader in successfully executing strategies on untested platforms.
Links:
Healthy Sex: http://www.healthysex.com/
Sexpo: http://www.sexpo.co.za/
Formfunction: http://www.formfunction.co.za/
Cape Town Daily Photo: http://www.capetowndailyphoto.com/
Jarred Cinman: http://jarredcinman.com/
Saul Kropman: http://saulk.co.za/
Comments:
I want to be part of SA's porn actor.
by Calvin on March 22 2010, 12:05
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go to www.sondeza.com & see how these guys are creating a buzz this website get more than 10 000 hits per day!!!
watch this space will launch my own stuff soon
by sbu on May 31 2010, 16:57
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