“My blood runs cold. My memory has just been sold.
My angel is the centerfold. Angel is the centerfold.”
J. Giles Band

If you want pornography, it is not hard to find. I am bombarded by emails and internet sites offering me dirty pictures, dirty movies, dirty stories, and dirty poetry.

I’ve always been curious about dirty poetry but never checked it out.

Almost every hotel offers hardcore movies and advertises, “the title of your movie will not appear on your bill.”

If I watch a wet, wild, and sexy marathon, my bookkeepers may not find out, but they will wonder why I spent $44.95 to watch a Disney movie.

As easy as it has been to access pornography, it is about to get easier.  A new source is emerging in the cell phone.

An article on TMCnet news web site said that mobile pornography is increasing. 

Two computer science professors who work with Google said that a staggering 20% of all cell phone searches were for adult content.

As cell phone web browsing gets easier, it will mean that millions of people, young and old, will access pornography via the telephone.

Mobile porn has caught on around the world. Like every other aspect of mobile technology, the United States is behind Europe and Asia in marketing porn via cellular devices.

It is not because we are more moral; it is because they have faster and better phones. 

When our phones get as good as the ones in Europe, we will have as many people downloading porn as they do.

I don’t really care if adults watch dirty videos or check out the dirty poetry that I am missing out on. I do care if porn gets in the hands of young children.

Lots of pornography comes from other countries and from too many different sources.  It is difficult to regulate.  If teenagers today have the mind set that I had during my teenage years, it is futile.

I lived by the Laverne and Shirley philosophy: give me any rule, and I’ll break it.  When I check out sites like Myspace.com, I know that today’s teens operate on the same principal.

A lot of younger children have cell phones.  Phones have a safety, convenience, and security value.

Mobile devices also make it possible for children to access porn with ease and privacy.  I’m not sure that anyone has a way to stop it.

There are a number of politicians who grandstand about banning pornography; but since porn is a growing, multi-billion dollar business, someone must be looking at the stuff.  You can’t legislate it out of business.  

You don’t see candidates getting elected on a “pro-porn” platform. People watch dirty movies at home  but don’t get up at rallies and talk about it.

Porn watchers vote with their pocketbooks. The people pushing porn are going to use every means possible to find an audience, just like any product vendor selling any product.

If cell phone  technology makes it easier for them to market, they are going to do it.
 
We want protections for children while not violating the civil liberties of adults. It is a tricky line to walk.

Leaving safeguards to open market means 8 year olds will be watching Deep Throat and Behind the Green Door on their cell phones. Letting the government and phone companies do the regulating will mean further invasions of privacy like the NSA scandal.

One idea might be to do what has worked well in music licensing. Make people pay a small fee every time they access a pornography site.  

Every teenager has a cell phone, but not every one has a credit card. Well, a couple of them don’t anyway.

I hope people realize that once they  star in a dirty picture or movie, it is out there forever.

I saw where a school teacher in Paducah, Kentucky was suspended for being in an adult movie 10 years ago.

With people making adult movies at home and broadcasting on webcams, I wonder how  people will be haunted years later by stuff from their past.

I would feel weird if a childhood friend showed up in a porn movie. 

Especially If can watch them on my telephone.

Don McNay is President of McNay Settlement Group in Richmond, and no one  wants him to be in any kind of movie. You can write to him at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or read other things he has written at www.donmcnay.com.  Don’s column is syndicated on the CNHI News Service.