I have nothing against porn. I also have nothing against PSPs. However, I do think it odd that chuckleheads around the world think that for some reason, PSPs and porn should go together. Maybe it’s that small electronics are sexy, so having a video display unit playing porn is doubly erotic. Somehow I doubt it. Certainly, visions of people wandering off to the bathroom stalls to get in some, uh, gaming time come to mind.

Yes, the PSP has a big beautiful color screen…for a handheld. It’s a 4.3″ screen that sports a 480×272 pixel resolution (nerd alert!). The widescreen aspect ratio is nice for watching videos on the road…but when was the last time you were on a roadtrip when you said to yourself, “You know what would make the time pass faster right now? Looking at some porn!” I can just imagine what a conversation starter it is for you to be watching some hardcore gangbang video in coach on a cross-country flight. That might get someone to trade for your aisle seat.

Nonetheless, the desire apparently exists to check out some psporn. Even Playboy is jumping on the bandwagon (not their first foray into digital device content). By the by, if you’re thinking about checking out the free sample Playboy content, don’t. Maxim could make more titillating stuff than that free sample. The six pictures and sample video clip they offer were so tame, I showed them to my wife who commented, “I’ve seen more explicit stuff on NBC.” She might be right.

Though it’s not as easy as it should be, it’s not really all that difficult to get content onto a PSP. You might have to do a bit of the work yourself, such as sizing pictures to the right resolution, or converting the video yourself, but it’s not exactly rocket science. When you plug in the PSP, it shows up as a hard drive. If you can’t figure it out from there, you might want to consider switching to jacks.

Yet, people continue in this newly expanding field. Through the amazing power of hackery, it’s possible to go online with your PSP. See above on screen resolution for why this might not be desireable (anyone who’s surfed the web on their phone is already familiar with why this sucks). This leads us to the strange entrepreneurship of people wanting to be first to market with a PSP porn site. Like Playboy above, they’re aiming to get people to sign up and spend money, to get a steady stream of racy pictures and video to their gaming system. Weak.

Perhaps I didn’t emphasize that last point enough. It’s a gaming system. It’s meant to play games. Lumines is a pretty good game. Give that a whirl. Or, if you want your gaming system to do something besides games, why not convert a DVD to watch? It can be a porn DVD if it makes you feel any better.

If I want to surf the web, there’s a perfectly good computer sitting at my desk. Just because I can surf on my PSP doesn’t exactly mean that I necessarily should, unless I really do want to go blind (because of looking at the small screen, not for…ah…forget it).

So it goes. I can’t believe there’s a market for this stuff. Yet, by listening to mad ramblings on the Internet, it would appear there is some demand. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go wash my PSP. It feels a little dirty.