Pornography on the Internet Presentation for WAIA conference

Pornography on the Internet Presentation for WAIA conference 15 th October, 2001 Kimberley Heitman , B. Juris, Llb, AACS www. kheitman. com

An age-old obsession • Japanese and Chinese Ink Paintings • Indian Devotional Works • Medieval Woodcuts

Early use of photography • French Postcards • Chorus Girls and Prostitutes • Vintage Pornography • Ex Libris

The 50 s and 60 s • Bettie Page and Harrison Marks • Nudism and Pose Art • Changing values and censorship • From underground to mainstream • Paved the way for Deep Throat and Hustler

The VCR • Pornography drove the adoption of VCRs, Polaroid Cameras and Digital Photography • Huge treasury of images • The Pause Button • DVDs

Specific Interests • • Every Shape and Size Every Kink and Fetish Every Sex and Interest From Romance to Hard Core • Photography, Video, Audio, Text, CGI and Original Art

Ugol’s Law • Ugol’s Law is that whatever one’s interest, someone else is also a fan. • Jupiter Media Metrix claims 36% of web surfers visited adult sites in July 2001 – 33 million people spending an average of 82 minutes each.

Porn Sites • • • www. danni. com www. adultwebmasterschool. com/ www. theadultwebmaster. com/ Chat Boards Streaming Video

Amateur Sites • • • Over 80, 000 sites Networks and links Cam Girls Online Brothels “Girl Next Door”

Celebrities • Over 50, 000 celebrity nudes sites online • Pamela Anderson • Porn Stars sites • Supermodel Sites • Gossip and Paparazzi

Unbelievably False • Digital Forgeries • Porno Disney • Lawsuits and Denials

Unbelievably True • One bad photo can be circulated forever • Damage to reputation (e. g. Andrew Ettinghausen, Naha Buzkova)

Not necessarily sexist • Feminists for Free Expression www. ffeusa. org/ • Liberal censorship laws correlate with rights of women • Annie Sprinkle www. seagull. net/gates/annie/

The Law • Internet Content governed by Broadcasting Services Act, rated as if a film • Complaints to www. aba. gov. au • Most complaints relate to overseas content • Child Pornography illegal in all countries, everywhere else the law varies • Online legal help - www. adultweblaw. com/

Online Porn Businesses • • Webmaster affiliate sites Search engines Catch-up by other media Spam Third party merchants Adult Verification Services Retail Sites

Usenet * Deja/Google Archive groups. google. com Over 650 million articles * www. pictureview. com Over 25, 000 pictures per day Total size of Picture. View archive: 555, 447 pictures in 646 groups (October 2001)

Astounding Facts • www. world-sexnews. com/ • www. odd-sex. com • www. the-penis. com/ • www. scarleteen. com/ • www. janesguide. com/tip s/consumer. html • www. sexualrecords. com

One Man’s Meat • • • “Men Against Pornography” www. geocities. com/Capitol. Hill/1139/ American Baptists’ Resolution against Pornography - www. abcusa. org/resources/resol/pornog. htm Net. Alert – www. netalert. net. au Islamic Opposition www. soundvision. com/life/porn/antipo rn. shtml Judaism against pornography www. jewish. com/askarabbi/ askr 2103. htm

Thank you – Any Questions? Kimberley Heitman www. kheitman. com