The quote-unquote creative stuff, on the other hand, exists in backwaters too obscure to be found even by Google search. Article content The thing that gets me about online porn is that it’s not that wild This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. They found that, while an extraordinary range of material does technically exist, a mere 5 per cent of the sites’ available tags cover 90 per cent of their videos. In one of the most recent quantitative analyses of online porn, a team of five French researchers at several different institutions scraped the metadata – including tags describing content – of 1.7 million videos on the popular tube sites Xnxx and xHamster. In a statement, Pornhub’s vice president, Corey Price, denied that tube sites had any role in standardizing or mainstreaming online pornography: Porn is more diverse than ever before, he said, and Pornhub in particular is “democratizing the distribution of adult video content like YouTube did with general video content.”īut what limited data we have, at this point, suggests differently. I wouldn’t describe it as diverse or creative.” “It’s explicit, and some of it is extreme. “The thing that gets me about online porn is that it’s not that wild,” Tarrant said. And MindGeek, leveraging its vast, centralized troves of content and user browsing data, has dictated exactly which sorts of porn become and stay popular. Eight of the 10 largest tube sites, including Pornhub, RedTube and YouPorn, are owned by MindGeek, an “information technology firm” headquartered in Luxembourg. The sites making Calvin & Hobbes erotica or literal Tetris porn are, not coincidentally, the same ones that cannot afford a full-time, anti-piracy staffer.Įqually damning, from a Rule 34 perspective, is the fact that tube sites centralize power and influence in the hands of a single corporation – something that most casual consumers do not realize. Piracy has hit small producers and distributors particularly hard, says Shira Tarrant, the author of the new book The Pornography Industry.
That infamously includes pirated porn stolen from websites that charge for the videos this practice has gutted portions of the porn economy. And thanks to the same technologies that were fueling these cool new things called “Web logs,” just about anyone with an Internet connection and a willing audience could produce it. Home computers and faster Internet speeds liberated consumers from the awkwardness of interacting with an inquisitive mailman or video-store clerk, which meant they could chase down whatever flavor of smut they wanted. Like the mainstream media during that same period, the porn industry was experiencing some major turbulence, thanks to the Internet. Ogas conducted his study – an analysis of more than 55 million pornography searches – in 20, at the tail end of the period that may go down in history as the golden age of Rule 34. “I think we’re seeing the death of Rule 34,” sighs Ogi Ogas, a computational neuroscientist at Harvard and the author of the first large-scale study on Internet porn.
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