An acceptable career? or Utter Bollocks

Porn appears to be moving into mainstream life these days. Even the staid, respectable BBC has an article in how porn has come on these days

Today anyone can set up a website and become a porn star. With the internet fundamentally changing the industry, could pornography be becoming mainstream?

It takes the example of Francesca

Francesca, 59, lives in rural Oxfordshire and is apparently one of the UK's most popular internet porn stars. She has her own website and is known as a BBW - a big, beautiful woman. An acronym, that I must confess to never having come across before - but there again I have led a sheltered life.

Anyway, it was ever so easy to get the business off the ground

"A boyfriend suggested I get into pornography. He loved me the way I was and showed me other men did to. I didn't believe anyone else would find me attractive. We took six glamour shots, put them on an internet site and the next day I had 250 e-mails offering me work and from admirers."

And the web also means that the customer gets involved as well

Jo, who is in her 30s, meets subscribers for sex and puts the pictures on her site. She travels round the country, having group sessions with up to 20 men a week. Her partner Phil take the pictures.

All this has resulted in, shall we say, an opportunity for more to indulge in the porn business

"A lot of magazines are dying out now. Why have the embarrassment of going to a shop to get a mag when you can get everything you want more discreetly and privately on the internet."

The fact that it is readily avaiulable does not make it morally right, but the fact that more people are indulging in porn is a fact of life. The fact that the BBC reports on it in a straightforward way shows that we are all getting used to it being around

"All you need to be a porn star these days is a camera and internet connection. It also helps to be an exhibitionist."

When I was a lad, it helped to be photogenic in the conventional sense of the word, but we can all get involved in it now.