"The average lag between the invention of any new medium and its use to create and transmit pornography is about 15 seconds." -From a listings item in New York Press, advertising the screening of an early-20th-century silent porn film. True of print, motion pictures, the internet- I think we've got something here.
Posted by Stephen Silver at May 4, 2004 08:26 PMSpeaking of porn, there were these two students in Sherman tonight discussing the creation of a porn website.
Fortunately, they were talking about finding non-Brandeis girls for their idea...
Posted by: jaws at May 4, 2004 11:48 PMPagers and answering machines got popular among pimps and hos before they did among the general public, as well.
Posted by: Jeremy Wahlman at May 4, 2004 11:50 PMJaws' comment reminds me of the time one of the Brandeis mags (I forget which one - help me out, Steve) did an issue with naked people on the cover, and they used Tufts students as models.
Posted by: Joe at May 5, 2004 12:20 PMApparently Sherman is the place to plan a porn web site. I think I heard more porn related ideas there than Kosher Kops busting food slutters.
As for the magazine... I'm drawing a blank here too.
You're thinking of The Watch. That deadly-dull liberal magazine decided one month to put naked people on the cover and were the talk of campus for about a day, until everyone realized the rest of the magazine was just as deadly-dull as before.
Now if they'd used actual Brandeis students on the cover...
Posted by: Stephen Silver at May 5, 2004 04:23 PMAh yes, The Watch... wasn't Jon Dworkin high up in their ranks for a while, possibly even the editor? I still chuckle occasionally over his anti-gun article which called, with a perfectly straight face, for "civil disarmament" and acted like this was a goal no reasonable person could disagree with.
Posted by: Joe at May 6, 2004 04:08 PM