No one knows how big the online porn industry really is but according to Nielsen/NetRatings about 43 million Americans visited porn sites in August and the average user is looking at 121 pages, going back six times and spending an hour and seven minutes every month looking at adult-related material ( source). It’s estimated to be a $5 to $7 billion dollar business. It’s so large and so popular that you can now actually take a course in it and learn how to be in the online porn business ( source).

While the porn might be out in the open these days and accessible through your PC, hand held or phone, those that purvey it are generally not. It’s like a cottage industry full of small-time, private operators who are difficult to pin down. Yes – there are some major outlets like Playboy and others but, online porn has spread like an unstoppable virus with even bored housewife’s staring in their own shows. Anything goes in this under cover and largely unregulated business – just do a search on the internet and you can bring up anything from bestiality to sadism as easily as you can type ‘sex’. Frankly, it’s worrying.

The mass availability of online porn has essentially brought porn out of the closet and into the everyday world. It’s quite common now to be able to watch late night porn on TV and advertisements for downloading porn into your phone fill the late night airwaves in Europe. As the barriers have slowly come down, porn has safely ventured out onto the High Street – you can rent porno DVD’s at many ‘normal’ DVD rental shops, tacky newspapers carry it in advertising in the back pages along with the sport news and it can even be delivered to your door in the form of advertising flyers.

Well, the people get what the people want but it is becoming so pervasive as to warrant a backlash. Sooner or later, folks will become sick and tired of porn everywhere and the cycle will turn – mark my words.

What annoys me about the online porn industry is the tactics that it uses to market itself – as if PORN needed marketing! I am sick to the back teeth of deleting spam email, spam text messages and spam posted as comments on my websites. I run a daily battle with what seems to be an army of Russians who apparently are employed to post advertising for porno sites as comments on other people’s websites. Yes, they all are Russian or at least have email addresses that end in .ru.

To me this is like me popping by your back yard each evening and erecting an explicit full frontal image there facing your dining room windows. Your breakfast is spoiled by the site of fornication or worse through the window. Each morning, you step outside and remove the offending sign only to find it re-appeared threefold the next morning! Something has to be done.

I’m open-minded and I am fine with mainstream online porn sites (there are certain types of online porn that should be banned entirely but that is another rant). I respect other people’s freedom of speech and expression but I get really, really pissy when people over reach and infringe on my privacy and my property. Enough is enough. I hereby call for automatic castration of anyone who posts spam or sends spam regarding online porn to anyone’s email account or on anyone’s website.

Online porn purveyors – don’t mess with me.

Afternote - I am going to add a google ad here - what's the betting its an ad for online porn?