I have seen figures indicating that the pornography industry in California
is bigger, in financial terms, than the conventional television and film
industries. And it is still going strong. Even though the potential
for novelty is not as great here, new pornographic films are still being
produced and are still making money. With many pornographic films on DVD,
once could easily spend the rest of one's life watching films which have
already been made. Even if one restricts the choice to films of the type
one wants to watch, there is still more than enough. Nevertheless, it is
profitable to make new ones. As long as that is the case, I assume it will
also be the case for conventional television.

With pornography, the quest for novelty seems even stranger than with
conventional films. Why not just watch a pornographic film from the 1970s?
Can it really be that the presence of sideburns on the male actors
(or pubic here on the female actors) is so repulsive to today's tastes?