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The interactive nature of the Internet provides users with a profoundly different experience than other forms of entertainment. While television, film, radio, books, and magazines are static, the Internet is not. For instance, a porn magazine likely provides twenty or so pictures and that’s it. With a porn DVD you get an hour or so of action and that’s it. It doesn’t matter if there’s only one picture in the magazine or one scene in the video that turns you on. That’s all you get. Period. If you’re looking at porn online, however, you can sort and reshuffle images and sometimes, if you’ve got someone performing live via webcam, you might even be able to direct the action via live chat. The Internet provides you with control over whom and what you view in ways that other media simply cannot. Thanks to this interactivity, digital technology has the power to hold a person’s interest far longer than any previous entertainment medium, especially when it comes to sexual content and romance.