"Whenever anything new hits the world, two things happen in short order. First, someone figures out how to make money off of it; and second, someone figures out how to use it for porn. So it is with magic. We’re going to focus on the first one, but yeah—magic’s used for porn, just like everything else."
"That's right; in a year when less than half of American households even had Internet access, there was already a fetish comic starring animals."
— "The 5 Circles of Baffling Web Comic Hell
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", Cracked.com"Any emergent technology succeeds if it provides new ways to rub one out—"
— Fulvio Morsellanote , Punisher War Journal #1
"I guarantee that if a guy invents invisibility at midday, he'll be in the ladies' showers at the local leisure centre by one o' clock."
— Craig Charles
"Like nearly every other device capable of displaying an image, the slide projector was used for naughty pictures. The slide projector."
— James Lileks, Stagworld
"Based on my Tripod experience, I’d offer the hypothesis that any sufficiently advanced read/write technology will get used for two purposes: pornography and activism. Porn is a weak test for the success of participatory media - it’s like tapping a mike and asking, “Is it on?” If you’re not getting porn in your system, it doesn’t work. Activism is a stronger test - if activists are using your tools, it’s a pretty good indication that your tools are useful and usable."
— Ethan Zuckerman, The Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism
"Neil Armstrong once told me that most giant steps forward humanity had taken were driven by the wish to look at other people with no clothes on".
"No matter the century, one of the first things people wonder about new technology is 'Can I have sex with it?'"
— SF Debris talking about Data's "multiple techniques"
"When man invented fire, he didn't say 'Hey, let's cook!' He said 'Great! Now we can see naked bottoms in the dark!' As soon as Caxton had invented the printing press, we using it to make pictures of, hey! Naked bottoms! We have turned the internet into an enormous international database of naked bottoms. So you see, the story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been a story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms."
— Steve Taylor, Coupling
Kevin: Now, if you recall that whole hullabaloo where Hollywood was split into schisms, some studios backing Blu-ray disc, others backing HD DVD. People thought it would come down to pixel rate or refresh rate, and they're pretty much the same. What it came down to was a combination between gamers and porn. Now, whichever format porno backs is usually the one that becomes the uh most successful. But, you know, Sony, every PlayStation 3 has a Blu-ray in it.
Kirk: ...You talkin' to me this whole time?
Kevin: I was talking to whoever was listening.
Kirk: ...You talkin' to me this whole time?
Kevin: I was talking to whoever was listening.
"Here we have a brand new human activity: A man has hollowed out an eggplant and filling it with coins and hot sauce. And unlike most human activities, it's not a weird sex thing. 99% of all new human activities are a weird sex thing, but this is n—Oh, wait, it is a weird sex thing."
— Neil the Accountant, The Good Place
