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["Andrew C. Oliver" <acoliver AT buni.org>]

would this be what you're looking for?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11131880

Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
> On Jul 26, 2007, at 5:48 PM, ron thigpen wrote:
>
> > Gotta run now and rip the last of my wax cylinders before it's off to
> > see some vaudeville (no-snuff night) at the local saloon.
>
> Did anyone catch an NPR story this summer about how one of the first  
> uses for wax cylinders was for porn?  One of the first things they  
> did with wax cylinders was create a jukebox where for a nickel you  
> could stick something in your ear and listen to to whatever was  
> recorded, but for years everyone thought this was just for typical  
> pop songs of the day.  As it turns out, some historians found out the  
> first uses were actually for porn, and the reason this was forgotten  
> was that congress passed a law outlawing them with huge criminal  
> penalties, so almost all of the cylinders were destroyed, and  
> everyone associated with this "artistic" effort destroyed all of the  
> evidence to avoid long jail times.
>
> All that changed when one of the original wax porn cylinders was  
> found, and historians pieced together the real story.  And so the  
> axiom holds true, the first uses for any new technology are always  
> for porn :-)  (The recording itself was featured simulated sex with  
> lots of moaning and noisy bedsprings.)
>
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