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2026 nominations. Issuesetc.org slash 2026 nominations. The porn industry used to exist and have a marketing problem.

It was a shame to view or use pornography.

And so to get it to their customers,

they had to find clever ways.

If I remember from the old, old days when I was growing up,

it would come in a brown paper wrapper or something like that.

Well, now it's everywhere.

The industry does not have a problem,

delivering its products, so to speak, to its customers.

Some would argue that pornography is harmless.

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