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"      Porn&amp;#039;s come a long way from the big-budget days of Jenna Jameson on VHS; websites like Tube8.com and YouPorn.com (NSFW!) have proved that there&amp;#039;s a major market for more grassroots-style homemade amateur videos. (They&amp;#039;ve also garnered female viewers who&amp;#039;d rather see the couple next door have enjoyable-looking sex than Jameson and her fake-boobied ilk feign enthusiasm as they go down on a dude who looks like a jacked version of everyone&amp;#039;s 7th grade science teacher.)  Now a female CEO is getting in on the action, so to speak: an article in Business Insider covers an interesting new endeavor by Cindy Gallop, an English entrepreneur who&amp;#039;s founded a crowd-sourced porn site called Make Love Not Porn (MNLP). The site invites anyone \u2014 couples, individuals or groups \u2014 to submit videos of themselves getting busy, which users can pay $5 to watch for three weeks. Gallup and the participants split the revenue, and some of these real-world sex-havers have made up to four figures. She considered it the first social media platform that revolves around sex. Within a few months of its creation, 75,000 members and have earned Gallop and her team tens of thousands of dollars. Gallop was inspired to create the business after her 2009 TED talk on the subject (above) garnered an overwhelming response. She aims to provide a counter-argument to the subliminal effects that porn has on teens, citing the notoriety of &amp;quot;leaked&amp;quot; nude shots as the fact that sex is still unhealthily marginalized in American culture. &amp;quot;Porn by default has become the sex education of today, and not in a good way. I found myself encountering a number of sexual behavioral memes [and] I went, &amp;#039;Whoa, I know where this is coming from.&amp;quot; (Perhaps that&amp;#039;s why Iceland&amp;#039;s tried to ban it.) However, not everyone thinks Gallop&amp;#039;s goals are practical; Dr. Ogi Ogas, a neuroscientist and author of A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What The Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships, points out: &amp;quot;Erotica that features the &amp;#039;funny, messy, awkward moments of sex&amp;#039; generally appeals to women more than men and is already found on female-targeted erotic sites, particularly lesbian sites. Even more challenging for her project, women are highly reluctant to pay for visual pornography.&amp;quot; The casual consumer of Internet porn knows that there&amp;#039;s no shortage of brutal, violent sexual expressions towards women, even on the amateur sites listed above ... so this could be a really good thing, if it catches on. I&amp;#039;d throw my $5 towards it. Follow Anna on Twitter: @annabreslaw Image via Getty "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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