Social mores are always interesting to me. Of course the hobby (or world's oldest profession) is typically looked down on by the mainstream population. Naturally, those of us who play in this arena look at it a bit differently.
Last night, around midnight on my way home from the airport, I'm listening to the Plaboy Channel on Sirius. It was a re-play of a talk show from earlier in the day. On one of the breaks, there was a commercial. (Yes, even satellite has "sponsors" now.)
Two commercials ran...the first was for Ashley Madison...no biggie. The next one was promoting The Erotic Review! Talk about a shocker. They bandied about a couple of well used abbreviations (DFK, GFE and one or two others I cant recall) in the spot, and it was actually well done. It was as shocking as the first time I heard characters curse on prime time.
I'm not sure the publicity is a good thing, but regardless, what a quantum leap. While mainstream acceptance is certainly not right around the corner, my guess is that the oldest profession may ease into our social mores over the years to come.
Thoughts?