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Here's another one from today.
Subject: Male, Race: Arabic (from Morocco), Age: About 35 |
Location: Union Square |
We spent some time talking business before this point.
[INFRENCH]]
ME: "I'm actually a pornographer."
HIM: "Really! No kidding! Truly marvelous!"
ME: "It's quite a multi-layered industry, also..."
HIM: "I imagine."
ME: "There are many more points for the adding of value than you would think between [the bed] and the consumer, for there being many paths of distribution, even within only online."
HIM: "It is very evident that the variety of sexual products has exploded online."
ME: "Exactly right. Very few people outside the industrie have a conception how much we have benefited from the arrival of the Internet. To understand it better... [j'aime des metaphores] imagine that demand was sucking through a pipe made thin by the combined effects of the limitations of physical distribution and the stigma of public purchases. What we have experienced is like the loaves and fishes."
HIM: "A miracle!"
ME: "Exactly. There is still, in essence just the one fish, but now feeding thousands."
HIM: "Very interesting."
ME: "What?"
HIM: "The same factor that most threatens your business is what gives the American consumer of pornography his voracious appetite for it -- The American Government, The Religous Right. Nowhere in the world, NOWHERE, is pornography consumed like in America."
ME: "Hmmm."
HIM: "I am not in your industry, but I can tell you that."
ME: "My God, I never put that together before. It's only here that pornography is both [forbidden] and ubiquitous. The optimal conditions for maximum consumption."
HIM: "Yes, if it lasts!"
ME: [Staring at my hands] "I think there is a chance..."
HIM: "You have two, actually..."
ME: [Re-engaged]
HIM: "You either make pornography visibly pervasive, and in many forms, or you make it invisibly pervasive, and in many forms. Now, it is the worst combination, you have made yourselves very visible, but isolated yourselves on a single medium. Doesn't matter that the Internet is everywhere, it is actually a very closed medium -- the reach is great, but the providers are few."
ME: "We're fools."
HIM: [Waves hand dismissively] To make so much money, and spend it so unwisely and so shortsightedly, that is why no one in Big Business repects you. You act like all you have in your heads is [cum]..."
ME: [Laughs, sticks finger in nose, examines] "My God, you'r right, my head is full of [cum]!
HIM: [Laughs]
ME: "Fear is killing us, no doubt about it..."
HIM: "I'm sure the smartest pornographers could have done better than Janet Jackson with the Super Bowl opportunity."
ME: "I'm sure of it."
2HP
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tada!
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