Web TV shows porn, without the sex

(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-10-09 16:15

Pornography's size as an industry is often overstated, but Web-based porn generates at least $2 billion a year, said Frederick Lane, the author of "Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age."

"People are getting more blase about porn, I don't think there's any question about that," Lane said. "I think the Internet has played a huge role in that, it sort of lowers everybody's threshold."

PG Porn will also sell its content elsewhere under the direction of "Disaster Movie" producer Peter Safran.

The principals behind PG Porn take the name "PG" from the rating "Parental Guidance Suggested" given to movies largely free of objectionable content. But they do not expect viewers to watch their webisodes with their parents.

Instead, they said they expect men to visit the site in greater numbers than women -- at least initially -- and they assume most men see plenty of porn.

Their site features racy photos of porn stars Aria Giovanni, Belladonna and Sasha Gray. PG Porn's creators recruited them, asking porn fans about their favorite stars.

Bob Peters, president of New York-based Morality in Media, said PG Porn is not as bad as regular porn sites, but he worries viewers will move on to the real thing.

"In the real world of pornography, if you want to get your start in pornography you start in the gutter," he said. "So real people are abused in the production of pornography."

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