I smoked a lot of dope in my youth. Maybe that’s why I’m still paranoid. I recognize my disorder and try to reign in my manic tendencies. I know malicious forces aren’t watching me from the shadows. I tell myself all the time that as long as I behave there’s nothing to fear from the powers that be.

"We may live in a present that seems sexually tolerant but it takes an understanding of history to realize that tolerance is recent and fragile."

I acknowledge that I am just a little Titmowse and it’s arrogant of me to assume that I’m important enough to warrant the attention of evil doers or significant people. I’m just a word monkey for an adult webmaster resource network. Whenever my paranoid worries overtake the confines of reality, I just give myself a good scolding. I’m just being paranoid.

Still..You know the t-shirt: Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.

It seems to me that the longer human civilization goes on, the faster it forgets the past. Schools all over the world try to teach the history of humanity but they can only do so much while the past multiplies.

My theory is that most of us only absorb the knowledge derived from the events of our lifetimes. Our remembrance of history is limited to the period within our generations. Most of us don’t trouble to understand the experiences and lessons learned by ancestors.

Senior citizens remember World War Two but have little recollection of World War One. Middle aged people remember the sixties, the seventies and the eighties but they only know the fifties vicariously through television, books and movies.

The younger generation has no concept of what it was like to live in times when people were without CD players, video games, cell phones and VCRs. History is there for all to explore but I think most people don’t bother with history they didn’t live first-hand.

If the younger pups in our business took the time to study history as recent as the last fifty years, they would see that lawmakers and religious zealots have not been kind to the adult entertainment industry. We may live in a present that seems sexually tolerant but it takes an understanding of history to realize that tolerance is recent and fragile.

Magazines like Playboy were considered evil less than fifty years ago. Interracial sex, gay sex and female sexual autonomy are concepts accepted by society only thirty years ago. The ability to rent and view a porn movie at home came about in the mid-eighties.

We have today an entire generation that doesn’t know what life was like before the advent of the PC. They don’t remember that less than twenty years ago, the moral majority came real close to obliterating everything having to do with sexual freedom. They have no concept of the political corruptness of the seventies, the riots of the sixties or the frightening red scare of the fifties. They don’t understand that their freedom can be destroyed in a matter of months. They don’t know that their lawmakers are more interested in reelection than they are in fairness. To them, Big Brother is just an imaginary creation.

Poor kids.

If my past experience tells me anything, it tells me the adult Internet is due for some major fucking by law enforcement and moralizers. The recent military activities may have delayed the onset of the fucking but the fucking is coming. Investigations are occurring right now. Arrests will soon follow. Untried laws will be tried in the courts and it won’t be pretty. Assets will be confiscated. Employees will be out of jobs or implicated like their employers. Fortunes will be lost and lives will be ruined. The honeymoon is just about over for the adult Internet industry. And those who aren’t ready for sacrifice better get out now.

Anyone who thinks they can continue to play loose and fast with online porn just because they’ve not yet been caught are in for a nasty surprise. The lawmakers are watching you and you are a fool to think otherwise. The Internet is new but it’s not that new. Governmental types are catching up to the technology. Pretty soon a lot of adult webmasters are going to find out they are not above the law or removed from prosecution.

Okay. Okay. I’m being a little dramatic. I’m being paranoid. Sex isn’t going anywhere. Porn isn’t going anywhere. Internet smut will go on. I’m pretty sure that the fanatical aspects of these new laws concerning the adult net will fade away.

I remind myself that most humans operate from a position of fairness and tolerance. Only a slight few are out to ruin the smut peddlers. Most adult webmasters are honest businesspersons and we have nothing to fear from future or present legislation. My feelings of dread are flashbacks of times past. All will be well. Won’t it?