Calico Rudasil is a feature columnist for Sssh.com, the award-winning porn site for women & couples. With over 18 years’ experience under her belt, writing about and for the adult entertainment industry, Calico qualifies as something of a Web Porn Dinosaur; similar to a tyrannosaurus, only with far more attractive arms and a less pronounced overbite.
While there are many areas of life in which I’m anything but a traditionalist, I am admittedly resistant to change when it comes to certain cherished pastimes.
I’m even fond of some pastimes that are hard to defend – not keeping-the-Confederate-flag-within-the-current-state-flag hard to defend, mind you, but still problematic in the eyes of many others.
Take the occasional attempts by the National Hockey League to curtail fighting between players, for instance; to me, professional hockey without the occasional fisticuffs is just a bunch of Canadians ice-skating around with sticks in their hands.
Along the same lines, part of me is wistful for the days when smuggling contraband into a prison necessarily involved good old bribery, innovative (if uncomfortable) use of body cavities, or the skills to concoct confectionaries within which a nice, big file could be concealed.
The march of technology has no respect for such traditions, however, leading us down the road to the artless, lazy technique of using drones to smuggle porn into prisons.
Do We Really Need A Prison-Porn Ban In The First Place?
Before diving into the issue of drone-delivered porn in prisons, I feel compelled to ask: Why is the practice of banning porn inside prisons so widespread in the first place?
While I understand why a lot of people don’t like the idea of prisoners having too many creature comforts available to them, I don’t see the point of banning porn in prisons – not universally and for all inmates, anyway.
The crux of the argument for banning porn in prisons seems to be twofold: Porn doesn’t encourage rehabilitation, and many corrections employees (and some prisoners, as well) don’t want to be exposed to the stuff.
I’m a lot more sympathetic to the second part of argument, but if I were a corrections officer, I think it’s safe to say there would be a long list of other concerns about my working environment which would rank above not wanting to be exposed to inmates’ porn.
As for porn interfering with rehabilitation, I’m not too worried about the prospect of some guy who’s in prison for marijuana possession (as a significant number of people are) coming out the other end of his sentence as a sex offender because he was permitted to thumb through Hustler magazine to pass the time.
Why Mobile Phones AND Porn?
According to USA Today article linked above, people have been using available-to-the-public drones to deliver all sorts of stuff into prisons, including “mobile phones, drugs and porn.”
This raises an efficiency question for me; if you’re already smuggling a mobile phone in, why do you also need to smuggle in porn? Why not just use the phone to look up mobile porn?
On the other hand, penitentiary WiFi probably leaves a lot to be desired, so maybe having a stack of porn DVDs is the way to go, after all.
Still, I feel like delivering someone porn with a drone lacks the personal touch (and commitment) of jamming a thumb drive up your ass.
Is This An On-Demand Thing?
Another question I have about drone-delivered porn: Are inmates using their smuggled cell phones to specify what they’d like to see, or is this more like the old Columbia House “11 records for a penny” programs, minus a convenient mechanism for returning the stuff you don’t like?
If I were in prison, I wouldn’t want to waste my time scanning through random porn movies in the hopes of seeing some action of the sort which floats my incarcerated boat. I’d want to be certain the drones would bring over the prison walls the precise niches, performers and genres I’m interested in, not the analog equivalent of a porn tube site’s index page.
Then again, you know what they say: “Detained beggars can’t be porn choosers.”
Ok, so maybe nobody has ever said this precise thing before, but you get my point; if you’re doing hard time, it’s to be expected you may not have much choice in viewing material when it’s time to get hard, so to speak.
Unless, of course, you happen to have a friend on the outside with a drone, a big porn collection, and lots of time on his hands.
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