"An Arctic Seed-Bank" of Porn.

[Foxbark]

A very interesting science project is now currently up and running in the frozen wastes of northern Norway.
You see a group of senior scientists have established the 'international seed-bank' - the bank consists of packets of dry seeds od every useful plant known to man and the seed bank is actually a fortified bomb-proof underground bunker kept at low temperature to preserve the seeds ad infinitum.
The idea is that in the event of a global catastrophe such as nuclear holocaust, meteor strike etc the surviving members of the human race in their rag, tag and bob-tail fashion will be able to ressurect agriculture and cultivate useful and commodius plants, thus ensuring their survival and eventual 'bounce-back' to civilization.
Now, why hasn't the equivalent for pornographic images, notably 'vintage erotic' been established? Many enthusiasts here have made sterling and glorious efforts to preserve as much porno as possible, for the service of future generations, but I fear the method of storage, namely hard-drives haven't been tested by the fullness of time.
What is needed is a central, secure facilty on the lines of the 'seed bank'.

[CS1979]

No offence intended, I think you're either trolling or pulling our leg!

While I like "vintage erotica" as much as the next person (otherwise, I'd never have signed up here!), I seriously doubt it to have actual cultural value or merit, apart from being a facet of the liberalisation of social structures following the Second World War.

[dohupa]

I'm offering my place to be the museum of skin flicks for the historians to explore mate. Plenty of hidden stuff too that I haven't bothered digitizing yet.

So, if you wanna finance such a project, please do send me your money via paypal . Also, my mum needs a coat, so like your cash will be quite handy eh?

[kananga]

So what's it to be dohupa "the Fortress of Pornitude" or "Fort Knockers" ?

This is not the first time I've come across people who question the longevity of digital media, particularly DVD's and C.D's.

I guess it's a given that all hard drives will invariably crash, one day?
But surely it would be in only the most extreme circumstances that material is not retreivable?
These are more questions than statements.

I noticed recently that Kodak has begun making gold based media again.
They claim a life of hundreds of years for these.
I know silver isn't what it was first 'cracked up to be' but I have only one or two discs, (including burnt discs) that give me any trouble and then usually only on one machine.

Sorry if I'm going off topic. I'm sure there is a thread here for discussion of different media. As for a 'secure facility' I doubt that anyone's gonna bomb my island home, unless they need a little target practice

[Aubrey]

Like all "Low" art, porn can show a lot about the attitudes of the time in which it was made, much more than self-consciously "High" art can. A lot of Victorian porn is lost now, along with a lot of what we would call now pulp fiction; it would be a shame is 20th Cent porn went the same way.

The Kinsey Institute used to collect porn, of all types; one of my heroes, Gershon Legman (author of the magnificent "Rationale of the Dirty Joke") was the librarian/collector for a time. I don't know if it is still doing it, though.

[billybunter]

All of my stash is kept in a bomb proof bunker Whoever finds it is in for a treat, well, male survivors mainly.

[Aubrey]

This may seem a bit pretentious; but some kind of a depository of porn would be necessary, if only to show whoever comes to our planet after we're gone just what we were like. The high art will be there (I hope), but without porn how would aliens have any idea of how we had sex? There will be descriptions, and line drawings; but any film of people actually doing it would be classed as porn, so without it aliens would get a very strange idea of it. Until very recently, the only place where orgasm, or the clitoris, or many other aspects of sexuality, were even mentioned, was porn. Now we're a bit better than that (or some of us are), but not much, not really.

Without porn, anyone looking at what it meant to be human would get a very distorted idea: almost as distorted as if all they had to look at was porn. The truth is somewhere in between; but take porn away and it would not be right.

(Sorry to have gone on; but I think this is important: and for aliens you could read, people in the future; they'd know how we reproduce, but they might not know all the things that went along with it, and porn gives a more accurate picture than anything else in our culture.)

[dohupa]

Ya think they included a segment of Deep Throat in the Voyager disc, but they did not disclose this embarrassing little detail to us?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager...cord#Materials

[DTravel]

Isn't this what the Internet was invented for?

[chupachups]

hahahah

I can just imagine the expressions on the 30th century tomb robbers that uncover this stash

a bit like a cross between the scene from pulp fiction when the brief case is openned and eddie murphy's toothy grin