Team Monk: Mobile Smut Force

(Another mini weekend entry)

I've been reading a lot of stuff on The Register, and that's where I found this. Cambodia is locking down on mobile porn on 3G handsets by banning the use of 3G devices altogether. Yummy. I remember reading somewhere once that you can judge how well an industry is doing by checking to see if porn has invaded it. If it has, the industry's not only mature, but very alive and kicking. Apparently, even though only a very few can afford it in Cambodia, it's ready.

But why did he announce the clampdown to an assembly of monks? I wonder if it's because he thinks these very holy, celibate people would be most tempted by mobile smut? (Chinese Shaolin monks use cell phones regularly, and have $25 given to them as monthly spending money. Yeah, random, right?) Or maybe it's because he figures pronouncing that before the holy people would ease that niggling feeling in the back of his mind that maybe he's a tyrant?

Either way, someone needs to hand Hun Sen a copy of AbFab, so that Edina can enlighten him to the fact that "By the way sweetie, people have it off"...

It never ceases to amaze me that with all these advances in technology, the most basic, familiar, and ubiquitous images of sex are the ones that persist enough that we can gauge an industry's ripeness by it. What sad, simple little creatures we are.