legal or illegal

[eroticartist]

How do you prefer the adult entertainment business, illegal or legal. Do you prefer to earn money on the black?
Mike Freeman.

[andy at handiwork]

I remember seeing Ben D interviewed on tv some years ago, saying he had a fondness for the old illegal days. Personally I cant believe it took so long, but I'm bloody glad it went legal.

[TheProf]

Anything under the counter makes things exciting,e.g.illegal.

Once about the counter,you start looking for a new sin!.

I can remember the Beano & Dandy comics 'under the counter' during the wartime,the thrill of getting a copy outweighted being bombed to get to the shop.

Bananas and cigarettes were the same.

Once they become 'over the counter' and everyone else can handle them,the thrill has passed.

This applies to anything in life.Being first at the trough under cover of darkness (illigal) is a the buzz of a lifetime.After that it becomes old hat.

A lot of marriages must also fall into this trap.

[Marino]

I am glad things are legal. Just makes me sick that those that operate outside of the law seem to get away with it and earn a lot more than those of us that do everything correctly.

[Ace]

I echo that it should be legal.

Christ, I was ripped off BIG TIME when hiring a video from 'under the counter' at a fiver a pop.........and in 1982, that was a fair wedge!

[Trumpton]

All adult consensual porn should be made legal!! Unfortunately, that is not the current situation here in the UK at present.

[Flat_Eric]

Ace wrote:

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Agreed.

I was also ripped off over porn also around that time (82-ish). Being just a naive slip of a lad (late teens), I bought at some seedy book store in the centre of Manchester what looked like genuine Color Climax mags that had been shrink-wrapped.

They cost me a tenner a pop (serious money to a student in the early '80s) and when I got them home and eagerly unwrapped them, I was mightily pissed off to find that they were just old repackaged contact mags dressed up to look like the real deal. Not hardcore porn at all - in fact a million miles from it.

I only fell for that scam once - but apparently it used to be commonplace.

I moved to Germany in '86 and suddenly all the porn I could ever want was freely and legally available. Definitely the way it should be.

[andy at handiwork]

I thought that the internet would destroy censoship barriers, but sadly we have governments in this country that do not care for what we want to view. You can bet that legislation is on the way to force ISPs and credit card companies to shop you if you access and pay for web sites that feature material deemed inappropriate by the Home Office. The ridiculous 'Extreme Porn' legislation will doubtless be very useful to the police as a catch all. For instance the old bill come round for something unrelated, look at your computer and find banned material, and bang you up for it. What is the difference between China and the Saudis censoring what they think is subversive on the internet, and our lot prosecuting us for viewing what is available throughout the rest of Europe?

[steve56]

I was ripped off at upton park private shop in 1986 cc videos turned out to be polish or east european crap films.Flat_Eric wrote:

> Ace wrote:
>
> TIME when hiring a video from 'under the counter' at a fiver a
> pop.........and in 1982, that was a fair wedge!>>>
>
> Agreed.
>
> I was also ripped off over porn also around that time (82-ish).
> Being just a naive slip of a lad (late teens), I bought at some
> seedy book store in the centre of Manchester what looked like
> genuine Color Climax mags that had been shrink-wrapped.
>
> They cost me a tenner a pop (serious money to a student in the
> early '80s) and when I got them home and eagerly unwrapped
> them, I was mightily pissed off to find that they were just old
> repackaged contact mags dressed up to look like the real deal.
> Not hardcore porn at all - in fact a million miles from it.
>
> I only fell for that scam once - but apparently it used to be
> commonplace.
>
> I moved to Germany in '86 and suddenly all the porn I could
> ever want was freely and legally available. Definitely the way
> it should be.
>
>