"We've already got folks making money by selling porn just for cellphone users. It's only natural that the next step is to make porn with a cellphone."

I remember watching this talk show back in the days before the personal computer. The topic had to do with the controversy over flag burning. I remember it because one of the guests waved his video camera in the air and proclaimed that it was the tool that would change the world.

At the time, he was correct. Video was all the rage because the tapes were instantly viewable and the cameras were easily affordable. We were all going to be one-person film studios, thanks to the invention of VCRs and videocams.

Twenty years later the popularity of video has waned but the idea of the one-person studio is stronger than ever. The tools may be digital but the reality is that anyone can produce and profit from their own content. We're no longer bound to the cliquish world of Porn valley or Hollywood for that matter.

What's even more exciting is that we're coming to a point where we won't even need to depend on webcams and digicams in order to create instant porn. All we'll need is a cellphone.

From cave sketches to stone carving to oil painting to photography to film, anytime a new medium comes along, you can bet someone is going to make porn with it. Archeologists have discovered all kinds of dirty human designs dating as far back as the Paleolithic era.

When we excavated the ruins of Pompeii, we found pornographic mosaics on the walls of the doomed city. When the printing press revolutionized the world, pornographers were there to exploit it. When inventors developed photography and motion pictures, smutty postcards and stag films were soon to follow. When the video camera showed up on the shelves of the local Radio Shack, porn left the confines of smelly bookstores and entered the comfort of the modern home. When we were blessed with the PC and the Internet, it was adult webmasters that beta-tested the methods and measures it took to make money from the web. When we couldn't find nor afford the content of established film and print producers, we bought our digital cameras and webcams and created our own.

Now we have a new moneymaking tool: the cellphone. More explicitly, the Camera Phone.

What's that you say? One can't possibly think it's possible to create decent-looking pics and vids with a lousy camera phone. The technology just isn't there. Cellphone pics have 640 x 480 resolution at best. And video? Not gonna happen. Au contraire, my skeptical reader.

The cellphone market is huge and it's only going to grow. Everybody wants/needs a cell and they prefer camera phones. Cellphone manufacturers are more than happy to please and you might be amazed to find out just how advanced the new camera phones are.

Nokia has come out with a couple of low-end models that boast a two Megapixel camera. Pantech offers a two Megapixel camera phone as well. LG Electronics new phones not only play mp3s but their cam has a resolution of five Megapixels. Not to be outdone, Samsung has a five Megapixel cam phone that is easy on battery life. Even digital camera manufacturer Sony is selling a cellphone that can record video. Considering the popularity of camera phones, the quality of images and video will only improve and probably sooner that you think.

Imagine the possibilities. Look at how wildly successful just a few pics of Paris Hilton were for adult webmasters. Now think about how camera phones can be used to make voyeur content and porn on the go. We've already got folks making money by selling porn just for cellphone users. It's only natural that the next step is to make porn with a cellphone.

I often think back to that talk show guy that spoke so highly of the freedom the video camera would bring to both art and society. His tool became a dinosaur but his idea of the one-person studio is still alive and thriving.