But I digress. So there I was, saving all of these porn email messages, week after week. I just kept filing them away until I completely forgot what my original game plan was. By then, I had accumulated over 300 messages. I finally went through the messages and noticed a pattern. Back in February, I was receiving marketing for sites that boasted “Young, Hot Teens” among other “suck-you-in” phrases (pun intended). These sites were dedicated to all of us that have become addicted to the typical sixteen-year-old-looking post-pubescent cheerleader that needs to be molested. No harm in fantasy I suppose. [Editor’s Note: I agree, but President Bush doesn’t!]

Then, let’s look at March’s marketing emails. Phrases like “Hot Wet Naked Teen Lesbians” were popping up. We’ve moved up the ladder somehow. Now the teenagers don’t turn us on, we need more than one – girl on girl no less – which of course is well-known to be most men’s fantasy at some point in their lives. Moving on to April… our spring rainy season touts ads such as “Young Virgins with Dildos.” I guess we can call that progress. Our teenagers that we were looking at 60 days ago now need to be filled with plastic in order to turn us on. I wonder if there is a turn-on schedule, or a calendar of some sort for which I’m not included in the distribution?

That brings us to May – which brings us teens being “filled with cock.” Lovely. Our young little starlets are now full-fledged porn stars – in ninety days or less – like some sort of porno microwave or something. June gets us teen double penetration, July gets us interracial teen sex, August is the unofficial national gangbang month apparently. No worries though… the teens are still teens. They just have to sleep with five or six guys on live cam in order to get you off. Seems like a fast track to “Hooker High,” doesn’t it?

Going by this schedule, one would think that by the year 2005 we will all have a mailbox full of Grandma porn spam. Possibly sooner. If we keep moving up, or depending on your perspective, down this ladder, doesn’t it mean that eventually we’ll all be seeking snuff films, senior citizen porn, and other extreme fetishes? In no time we’ll be hiding our grandmothers from abductors and molesters instead of our children. The news will broadcast the latest missing senior citizen instead of the missing children. In some cases Grandma might actually welcome the attention and we’ll be fighting her to stay indoors.

Now granted, everything I have said above is rather extreme and somewhat cynical, and I realize that we’ve all grown used to working in a not-so-respectable industry. But to many outsiders, the picture painted is not far off from how many see our industry. We’re not exactly waiting for our Nobel Prize. However, most of us do have respect in ourselves, and we realize that all the gimmicks are clouding the real reason that this industry exists. We’re supposed to be providing an outlet for our sexually oppressed friends, right? We’re entertainers, service providers, and sometimes even sex therapists. We do provide a service to our communities, even if certain communities are too ashamed to admit it.

We, as a society, put Brittney Spears on the cover of every mainstream magazine at the ripe old age of 16. She was barely wearing accessories much less clothing when she first hit the Pop scene, and then our fathers, husbands, sons, neighbors, and everyone else had to stare at her while checking out at their local grocery store. Then, when those same people actually end up sleeping with a 16-year old, we call them pedophiles and put them in jail. Hmmm… it’s a bit of a double standard. We create the fetish, and then punish you for indulging. I have kids and I’m against pedophilia. I don’t condone any part of it. Our rationale puzzles me nonetheless.

Then, there are people like you and I… people in this industry, who create safe havens for these “fetishes.” Men can indulge in their fantasy without hurting anyone through the art of illusion, fantasy, and imagination. Damn right I consider that a service! If someteensite.com keeps my nearest published sex offender at home on his computer instead of luring my kids out of our back yard, that’s well worth it! I’m sure that I won’t get Ashcroft to suddenly love porn and see my side of things, but it’s still worth saying. If anything, it’s mainstream society that is providing the disservice.

The porn world accepts big beautiful women, women with little to no breasts, women who look like men, ugly women, skinny women, and of course the perfect women as well. We cover every fetish that has a name and even some that don’t. We cater to every possible perversion without passing judgment, and without trying to understand the “psychology” behind our members’ likes and dislikes. I don’t see any of that being covered by Vogue at my local newsstand. Hell, I don’t even see Penthouse covering it. In the meantime, I can’t imagine any decline in the amount of members to all of our fetish sites, and communities. However, somehow that makes us responsible for everyone’s perversions? According to your local church group it does. It’s porn’s fault that people want to be tied up, gagged, and spanked? It’s porn’s fault that our teenage generation dresses like whores?

I guess we’ll just sit back, let them think what they want, meanwhile allowing mainstream media to create our fetish fans and perverts, and we’ll do our best to continue catering to them, entertaining them, and in some cases – keeping them indoors. Maybe someday when the newest pedophile is arrested on our local news, the reporter just might pass some blame on to the mainstream media instead of it always being OUR fault.

This article was written by Angel, an independent public relations and marketing manager for the adult Internet industry. If you have a site that needs more exposure to the public, or you just need some help with handling your current exposure, please email angel@angelkisses.net or visit Angel’s site at www.angelkisses.net.