I have a good friend who admits she has an semi-addiction.

She likes to watch porn. Good porn, bad porn, gay porn, whatever.

But she works for a giant that could fold any day now and she can't purchase as many movies as she used to. Five a month to be specific.

So, last night we talked about what she could do, other than watch the same movies she already had. "I've seen them all about three million times," she groaned. "But each time I watch them, I learn something new."

"Your boyfriend must be so happy," I said.

"We broke up. He said some of the stuff I'm into is too much for him. That's why I need new porn."

Taking a sip of juice I looked at her and shook my head. "Why don't you just buy some new movies?" Case closed, let's move on, I thought.

"Because a good movie is nearly $40. Now that I'm paying my rent on my own and other bills since he left, I really can't afford to feed the porn monster."

"Have you gone online? You're always on your computer." I opened my laptop. "There are some free porn sites out there."

"Yeah, but they have one second clips."

"Ah, no. Let me introduce you to PornHub."

It was like a two-year old waking up Christmas morning finding toys underneath the tree. I guess this makes me an enabler.

However, she got me to thinking about other people trying to save money who like to watch porn. Those movies are expensive. Even the old ones. There's nothing wrong with watching porn online at HOME. Please don't risk your job to watch someone receiving a blow job.

Another free site is RedTube. While you're going to see some of the same videos that are on PornHub, it does offer an array of cartoon porn.

I'm sure my friend is going to be glued to her computer all weekend getting her fill of free porn.  While that's good for her, it sucks for the adult industry, which is seeing losses. Creative Loafing wrote about it in June.

If it was bad then, imagine how it is now.

In an adult video store is what I wanted to say to the man who kept looking at the door.

Yesterday, I discovered a store hidden in East Charlotte, Carolina Video. It's been there for 15 years, I just didn't know about it.

When you walk in, you have to show your ID to get them to open the door. I got carded! Yay!

There was another customer in the store and he kept looking around as if he was nervous. What did he think, someone he knew was going to walk in? And if they did--what could they say?

Think about it, if you're in an adult store and your pastor walks in, I bet you he or she won't say a word to you or about you being there. That person wouldn't have known you were there if they hadn't been there themselves.

Also, people come in those stores to look at items, not check out the people in there. But, if you and the person of your dreams happen to have the same taste in leather whips, there is nothing wrong with asking for a phone number. Either you're going to have the best sex of your life or make a new friend who has freaky friends who want to be punished. You have the tools to be the punisher!

So when you go into an adult store, don't be timid or afraid and don't worry about who sees you there.

I'm a different type of porn watcher than most.

I like a bit of a plot to go along with all the sucking, licking and fucking. Today's porn is filled with bad acting and no plot.

My best friend, X, always asks me why do I even watch porn if I want to see real acting?

He says, "It's not Brad Pitt on the screen."

But thanks to X being a huge movie buff and historian, he turned me on to a classic porn movie, The Devil In Miss Jones.

This 1973 movie looks like an art movie for the first 15 to 20 minutes. The plot of it is this: Justine Jones is a lonely virgin who just can't get off or get anything she wants out of life. So, she kills herself. (The fact that she uses a razor blade to kill herself but couldn't shave down there was weird but as X said, no one shaved their pubic hairs in the '70s.)

When Miss Jones goes to the great beyond, she's told that she can't get into heaven because she killed herself and that's the one thing she can't be forgiven for. Sitting there with the gatekeeper, she said if she had the chance to go back, she'd be "consumed, engulfed by lust."

"That is one of the seven deadly sins, isn't it?" she asks.

And this is when the porn comes in. It's hardcore, but in a 1970s way. I will say this, Miss Jones likes to taste herself!

The original movie has been remastered and re-released on DVD, but it is not cheap! I went to a few stores in Charlotte and that damned DVD was nearly $70. It's a good movie and all, but it is a recession out there.

It is available online to rent. And the rental is cheaper than going to the movies this weekend.

The masses are finally realizing that women need to come –often, hard and sometimes alone.

And that women (some women anyway) don’t want to drive to the outskirts of town to buy a sex toy.

So, thank you Spencer’s at Northlake Mall for selling vibrators in the mall. And we’re not talking about a “massager.” I’m talking real cock shaped toys that will touch your g-spot.

Granted, you won’t get the variety that you will find in a sex shop or adult shop like the Red Door. But these toys are cheap.

Spencer’s has a purple vibrator for $7.99. It’s not as powerful as some might like, say the sales girl in the store. But if you’re new to purchasing sex toys, consider this toy your gateway drug.

One of the more interesting sex toys at Spencer’s has to be the oddly shaped dildo, which is allegedly designed by women for women. Women who have never seen a penis, maybe? This thing has more grooves in it than warn out tires. And it’s really soft. What woman wants a soft penis with tons of ridges?

The toys at Spencer’s may be more mainstream and for “beginners,’ but there is a powerful bullet there with a remote control. The woman slips the bullet inside her panties or where ever she likes and hands the remote off to her partner. What’s hotter than walking around getting unexpected jolts down there?

It makes me wonder, if someone gets this as a gift, who benefits from it most?