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In reply to the discussion: The unspoken issue at the center of prostitution is causation [View all]The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)These two, it will be recalled, claimed to have discovered high government debt led to slow economic growth, though looked at more closely that had, in fact, demonstrated that slow economic growth led to high debt.
You do not find more 'niche' porn because 'vanilla' porn is too mundane, and saturation with 'vanilla' porn does not create 'niche' interests. What has actually happened is that persons with 'niche' interests are found to be worth catering to in a legal market. They are loyal and steady, with a good deal of their purchasing being driven by the customer's recognition that the fantastic obsession is not really realizable anyway. The 'niche' interests, however, have always been there, and in about the same proportions as found today, among the populace of porn consumers. An an analogy may be taken to homosexuality: it was formerly argued that if homosexuality was not socially repressed, the number of homosexuals would greatly increase, but all that has happened is that more people who have a homosexual orientation are open about it. The number has not increased, the people were always there. The coupling of 'niche' and 'extreme', as you have done, is also a bit tendentious. A very large proportion of 'niche' interests are quite innocuous, and even among those which involve pain or its suggestion, it is something the customer wishes to suffer, rather than to inflict.