demokratisatsiya of porn

Back in the 70s and before, if you wanted to shoot porn, you'd better have the studio yourself.

Whether you wanted to produce stills or moving images, it wasn't like you could go to any lab regularly offering the services.

Polaroids might have worked for the interested only in private use materials, but not for the one considering larger diffusion.

That made for a very oligopolic supply structure. Amateurs had to forget about it, literally. It was left to the pros. And because the barriers to entry were high and competition low, professional suppliers could indeed artificially enlarge their earnings in several ways. One of those ways was exploitive labour agreements with their models.

Enter internet. Enter colour printers. Enter digital cameras; and cellphone cameras; and webcams. Technologically speaking, the barriers to entry are so low that it is now impossible to stop supply.

Amateurs now have the upper hand in terms of the supply. If exploitation was ever true back in the days of glory of Heffner or Flynt or the Danish kp studios, now that amateurs have the same means available than the pros, they no longer have to put up with it. And some of the amateurs, of course, are kiddie. Or legally kiddie, or whatever...