Pornhub reports a 1424% jump in mobile traffic to its site since just 2010, while the Nielsen Company found that 29% of the American adult workforce watched porn on a work computer in March 2010. You can now watch whatever you want pretty much anywhere, anytime. Gone are the days of renting videos, or paying for video-on-demand to get your porn fix.
More women - and more people - are watching porn.
The internet sped up the process of easier/cheaper/faster/more, plus drew amateur porn into the mix (think about it: if you're so inclined, you have everything you need to shoot/edit a porno in the smartphone in the palm of your hand).Ģ. After the invention of the VCR in 1980 and the camcorder in 1985, porn got a lot easier to make for a lot cheaper, ringing in porn's video era in the '80s.
The time and money producers put into any one project has steadily dropped over the past few decades: the '70s, porn's so-called golden era, were all about high-value productions (the infamous movie Deep Throat was released in 1972, while The Devil in Miss Jones was released in 1973). Tarrant writes that about 95% of current productions are gonzo shoots, which are far less resource-intensive than feature films.
In the mainstream industry, high-end production is down and the production of gonzo porn - which does away with plot and expensive costumes and sets - is way up. "For better and worse, technology has arguably democratised access to pornography." Ahead, the scoop on how porn, porn viewership, and the porn industry have evolved since the '90s.ġ. "With laptops, high-speed WiFi, cell phones, and newer technology, we can pretty much get porn anywhere, anytime," Tarrant writes. Literotica is still a thing, of course, but now so is film, which is usually what you think of when you think of "porn." And since the video era of porn at the end of the 20th century gave way to the digital era in this one, porn has seen yet another renaissance.
Porn's roots date all the way back to the Renaissance, which, as author Shira Tarrant writes in her book The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs To Know, ushered in an explosion of sexually explicit literature.