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Story: US Senate restarts .XXX debate

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Yes to the mandatory .XXX urls! Speaking as a quivering U.S. porn webmaster, it would be the best thing since glossy print! Please, please, pleaaaase, please Mr Baucus and Mr Pryor, make my sites diiiiiirty again! And if anyone is actually reading this, I am not being tongue in cheek, I am absolutely serious. This would be great!

Please make the forbidden hard to find. Make it seedy, make it dirty, and the seedier and dirtier the neighborhood the better. Lets go back to YOUR teenage years. Let's go to the bad side of town driven by a bothersome urge that can be temporarily silenced by force of will... most of the time.

Lets add a dash of danger of getting caught. Its all about reading (aah, not even reading, but intently absorbing) the forbidden magazine at 3 am in a dirty alleyway in the bad side of a german town by the light of a red lightbulb with cops and dangerous nightwalkers everywhere, all ready to invade your private business. A part of you hates it, but the part of you that loves it really LOVES it. Oh yea, baby! .XXX restrict me all the way!

As for these two mouthbreathers themselves.... After someone showed B&P how to use Google, they must have had a knee jerk reaction (often a delayed side effect), and then sought to legislate what they do not comprehend. But hey, lack of knowledge has never been a stopping point here in the U.S. for any other issue, why bother here?

So IMHO, here is a real-world idea that will work within the existing system, so therefore no one will adopt it.

Porn sites in non .XXX urls should not get immediately banned. The pornographers must either be required to switch over content to .XXX within the natural expiration period of the domain ("GatesOfHeaven.Com" becomes a site for a retirement community) or their renewal rights to that url cease and expire naturally. In other words, they cannot renew for porn content. This may take 10 years, but it will happen without fuss, and God will surely grineth down uponst them.

The idea is simple, but no US legislator will follow it. Not draconian enough, no flags to wave, results happen after their terms expire, and nobody dies horrible bloody deaths.

As for my porn .coms and .biz domains, I am going to sell them off to a country that is actually free like Germany, Sweden, South Africa or the UK. Have at it guys, there is even pre-existing traffic!

I am also looking forward to the .XXX urls to open up for financial reasons, they will be a hundred times more valuable in this industry than any .com. There is a HUGE profit motivation for me to move my smut to that neighborhood, and my boxes are already packed in their plain brown wrappers ready to go.

So how bout it B&P? Enact your dum-bass law, the existing market forces will make it happen anyway, and you both come away looking like the Sherriff in that old black and white western movie constantly running in your little heads.

BTW, Baucus and and Pryor fit EXACTLY the profile of the porn enthusiast, and I do NOT mean casual browers. Don't let either one of them convince you they are palms-togther eyes-every-upward altar boys. They go there, and they go there often.

They are both from a repressed demographic area, porn is constantly on their minds (for good or bad), high pressure workaholics, boring long-term monogamous commitments, middle aged males, computer literate, above average income level, at age of great personal life changes, the list goes on. You KNOW they are looking at this stuff on their off time and lovin' it.... then hating themselves for lovin' it. These ARE the guys that pay my rent.

I say, bring it on you hypocritical puritanical freaks, make my retirement!

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