Oh Well... 'You May Be Surprised By Who's Filming And Uploading Amateur Porn'

[WillyT]

You May Be Surprised By Who's Filming And Uploading Amateur Porn
Posted: 02/12/2014 5:33 pm EST Updated: 02/13/2014 2:59 pm EST

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This week we've learned that the people watching porn aren't all single, lonely men -- and neither are the people uploading it.

Amateur porn website Homegrown Video (NSFW link) cataloged all video submissions they received over a six-month period. They found that almost one-third of homemade sex tapes submitted between July and December 2013 were created not in sexually liberal coastal cities, as one might imagine, but in the Bible Belt. Furthermore, 56.9 percent of videos were submitted by women.

(A representative for the site told The Huffington Post that Homegrown Video takes steps to ensure that all videos featured on the site are done so with the express permission of all parties featured. Couples are required to include a short clip acknowledging they are making a video of their own free will, are not intoxicated, and have read the site's terms and conditions when signing the release. Given the impact of of revenge porn, we're glad these steps are being taken.)

Most video submissions came from California (20.6 percent) and Pennsylvania (11.8 percent), but 10.8 percent of submissions came from Florida and 6.9 percent from Texas. Other Bible Belt states contributing submissions included North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana and Kentucky.

These results are consistent with a recent PornHub study...

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More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/12/amateur-porn-filming-uploading-women-bible-belt_n_4776919.html

[JI7]

1. this has been known for a long time

[WillyT]

3. Well Ok Then... Nevermind.

The hypocrisy was news to me... but if everybody already knows it...

[loli phabay]

23. they are only hypocrites if they preach against it not due to where they live.

i live in a very conservative area, but i can guarentee from experience that not everyone is a church going soul. also there seems to be a lot of anti porn and anti sex from all sides of the political spectrum.

[whopis01]

36. Why do you call it hypocrisy?

According to the brief data in the article when they compared Bible Belt area versus liberal areas only 1/3 of it came from the Bible Belt areas. That's 2 to 1 in favor of the liberal areas.

Think of the populations there. Slightly over a third of Kansas voted for Obama in the last election. Likewise slightly over a third of California voted for Romney.

So a horribly simplified analysis of that would indicate that a strong red area is about 1/3 liberal to 2/3 conservative. And likewise a strong blue are is about 2/3 liberal to 1/3 conservative.

So if that two to one ratio shows up in voting I am not surprised it shows up in homemade porn as well.

[Scootaloo]

2. Could care less for the article, but reccing for Fleetwood Mac

I fucking love "Oh well"

[WillyT]

5. Me Too... And The Article Was To Point Out The Bible Belt's Hypocricy...

[Scootaloo]

7. Hardly news

Screaming hate, claiming to follow a god of love, par for the course

[WillyT]

9. Not To You Or Me... But There's This 2014 Mid-Term Election Coming Up... I'm Sure You've Heard...

And... if we want to inform the uninformed voter... not a bad place to begin, eh ???

[Art_from_Ark]

14. The Bible Belt is also home to lots of people

who are not particularly interested in imitating the lifestyles of nomads who lived in a desert thousands of years ago.

[ileus]

27. You think it's only the religious folks...

in the bible belt that are uploading homemade porn?

http://www.gallup.com/poll/125999/mississippians-go-church-most-vermonters-least.aspx



Just because you live in the bible belt doesn't mean you can't appreciate uploading your own accomplishments.

Just like not everyone living in NY is a democrat, not everyone in the bible belt is a prude.

[Hippo_Tron]

17. I've never listened to any of their pre-Buckingham/Nicks stuff

Going to have to check that older stuff out.

[Scootaloo]

18. it drove me crazy for the longest time

Where I used to work, the radio was always turned ot a classic rock station.. .and every now and thenthis song would play... but the announcer never said what it was or who performed it! it was maddening! Finally i had to beg my boss to poke into the station's website to see if they had a currently-playing list... I told her that if i didn't find out who it was I would start singing it, and that convinced her that for both our sakes, it was time to break company computer use policy

[randome]

26. Um, just write two or three phrases down and Google them with the word 'lyrics'.

That's how I've discovered some interesting music, as when I hear something at Starbucks that catches my interest.
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[Hissyspit]

32. This version cracked the Top 40 in 1979:

[Lars39]

25. Early Fleetwood Mac was part of group of Brits who helped make the blues popular again.

In my humble opinion, of course.

[Blus4u]

29. Peter Green driven Fleetwood Mac

Peter Green was the driving force in early Fleetwood Mac.
He replaced Clapton in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and eventually took Mick Fleetwood and John McVie with him.
Band was originally titled Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - but shortened to Fleetwood Mac after the first album.
Green's bouts with schizophrenia are well documented and extremely interesting.

There is a multi-part BBC documentary on You Tube that tells the story of early Fleetwood Mac.

Peace

[Logical]

30. Couldn't care less I think you mean! nt

[WorseBeforeBetter]

4. Doesn't surprise me in the least.

Just like with the Bible Belt's high teen pregnancy rates, high divorce rates, high dropout rates, high obesity rates...

[kentauros]

6. Well, it just goes to show ya

that broad brushes aren't an accurate way to define an area.

[ZombieHorde]

8. That's interesting. nt

[LadyHawkAZ]

10. And it's all being watched by Utah

[Fumesucker]

11. It may come as a surprise to some that not everyone in the Bible Belt is a conservative

[kentauros]

15. Or owns a Bible

[mathematic]

21. Or a belt, apparently

[awoke_in_2003]

22. I wear an onion on my belt...

as was the fashion.

[2naSalit]

12. Oh Well...

Ah, when Fleetwood Mack was worth listening to!!

Thanks.

[Kablooie]

13. There are several amateur sex web sites with live streaming video and chat.

Many people display the state they are in and a large percentage are from the red states.
Some even have confederate flags on the wall.

They are conservative but probably tend more towards the biker/trailer trash kind of conservative.
They aren't Evangelicals but share the same hatred of everyone who isn't straight and white.

[The Straight Story]

16. Someone needs to re-educate those women

And let them know they shouldn't be using their bodies in ways not approved by the council of feminists.

Making porn? Watching it? Oppressive to see the human body used in sex for pleasure.

I hope they were wearing their burka during the filming because if they were nude men might look at them in ways that are not natural (they should only look at women as business people and such).

We can help them to become better women by shaming them and those that enjoy them, a new natural order where we see only their eyes which means we will appreciate them more and they will finally not hate themselves as all women now do who show any skin.

Praise be to Lilith and may she redeem these women and make them into womyn. Hidden from the shaming eyes of men and free, only their words are to be seen on the internet and none shall judge a womyn as beautiful, pretty, or shame them with compliments ever again.

"Couples are required to include a short clip acknowledging they are making a video of their own free will, are not intoxicated, and have read the site's terms and conditions when signing the release."

Women cannot make these of their own free will. They only do what the patriarchal forces make them do. If they think they are free we are not doing our job properly to shame them.

[opiate69]

19. FYI...

AUTOMATED MESSAGE: Results of your Jury Service
On Fri Feb 14, 2014, 09:59 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

Someone needs to re-educate those women
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4503175

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

TSS is trolling here - "approved by the council of feminist"? "praise be to Lilith"? "Womyn? It crosses the line from snark into hostility and trolling pretty clearly

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Fri Feb 14, 2014, 10:06 PM, and the Jury voted 3-3 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Seems a spot-on assessment of the various positions taken by many of our more um... strident ideologues.
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: It won't get hidden but I thought I had this ssdh on ignore.
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No, I think it's just snarky. Let it stand.
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Good for Straight Story! The kind of people who alert this are the same people who still think that the Duke lacrosse players are guilty.
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: HIDE. Hide hide hide hide hiiiiiiiiide

[randome]

28. Jesus, it was just satire. And pretty good, at that.

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[NaturalHigh]

35. Gee, how did I know that would get an alert?

I think it's a pretty accurate assessment of some of the opinions commonly expressed whenever someone dares to type P-O-R-N.

[bluestateguy]

20. Every woman I ever dated confessed to me that she loved porn

Sorry that that doesn't fit the feminist narrative, but it is what it is.

[loli phabay]

24. ive found porn whether its video, stills or writing is equal opportunity. some people enjoy it

some dont. each to their own.

[democratisphere]

31. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, H-a-l-l-e-l-u-j-a-h-a-h-a-h-a-h-a-h!!!

[geek tragedy]

33. the key variable in porn is the economics. if people want to film themselves doing

any manner of stuff because it's an expression of who they are, fine.

but, when capitalism enters the equation and it becomes a matter of people getting filmed so they can make money for other people, then it's a different ballgame.

[LittleBlue]

34. Doesn't surprise me at all

The right talks a big game but you just know they're into porn.

It would be interesting to know how many of the anti-porn crowd on DU watch porn.

[dionysus]

37. maybe they just decided to go their own way...