How to attract new readers? PORN!
While I was just contemplating on how to attract new readers to this blog, a lucky twist of fate produced a simple yet brilliant solution: PORN! Tonight, the widely respected German TV station ZDF broadcast a documentary called "Generation Porno" as part of their 37 Grad series. And as according to the Internet Pornography Statistics "25% of total search engine requests" are porn-related, this is obviously a great topic for one of my first posts. Now you might accuse me of choosing traffic over content. And you would be absolutely right. But as I mentioned the four magic letters P-O-R-N already four times in the last few lines, I can be sure that you will keep on reading this post anyhow, no matter how much its quality will deteriorate with each new sentence.
So what was this ominous documentary film all about? As the title suggests, it dealt with the influence of internet porn on contemporary adolescents. To give this young generation a face, the ZDF reporters chose four teenagers around the age of 14 whose IQ seemed to be in a neck-and-neck race with room temperature. This turned a serious topic into a chliché-ridden example of bad journalism, which was at best unintentionally funny. As it is already after midnight, I’ll leave it to you whether you want to watch the complete documentary on ZDF’s website or visit your favorite porn website instead…
