porn fills the hole...

[Darren Dirt]

...in the marketplace, time and time again. Meaning, it has been the driving force behind countless technology... throughout history.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10290322-71.html

"Far from viewing cyberpornographers as pariahs, society would do well to view them as mountain men and women in the mold of Jedediah Smith, who discovered and opened the passes of the Rockies for entire families to follow west."
Okay, that's stretching it.