I'm all in favour of the creation of a xxx tld and I have been for a while. Yes, it can amount to ghettoization of the porn industry. But such a move hasn't seemed to harm the sex industry in places like Amsterdam: if you want sex, you go to the redlight district.

In a .xxx domain, I don't have to worry about warning pages, or whether my outside images are too explicit – if you've wandered into the xxx area, that's no longer my problem.

Yes, parents should be using filtering software, and yes, parents should be more responsible for what they're children are seeing on the Internet. But the operators of porn sites should be more responsible, too. We shouldn't be sending out SPAM to people who never asked for our e-mails, but every day I get bombarding with no less than 50 e-mails. Pornographers should not be telling search engines through the use of META tags that their site is about Madonna when it's really about "big tits," but they used to. Porn sites should not be pulling half the shit and tricks that they do.

And arguing that parents need to be more responsible ... well, you're essentially asking them to sit with their children, anticipate every click of the mouse, ask the child to close his eyes while they check out that the click is safe. Because as it stands now, a porn site can be anywhere on a .com. And you're asking parents to shoulder more than their share of the responsibility. Not all of the people in our industry are ethical or responsible. Shit, we can't even give a surfer a thumbnail gallery when they click a thumbnail. With one click of the mouse on a TGP, presto, suddenly I find myself looking at some hideous Russian site with questionable content.

Nope, the online adult business hasn't done a whole lot to show that they are responsible.

I, for one, would be happier with a .xxx domain because then I don't have to worry about what is legal and where, in what country, what's obscene, what's alright.

Cheers,
dzinerbear