Four years ago, the pandemic impacted human activities, and “suddenly” the physical mobility of most humans seemed to be reduced to the lowest point. But not with digital activities because there has been a massive increase in Internet access since the last pandemic. It will not recede soon, even though the global pandemic status has long been endemic. One of the digital activities that has increased in the last four years is anything related to pornography. But what is the essence of pornography, and what is its future?
It seems that the pandemic has changed people’s consumption of pornography. For example, according to a study by Netskope, one year after the pandemic ended, access to pornographic content globally increased by about 600 percent.
For most people, pornography is a necessity, and it is a kind of “drug” that can be bought and taken at any time. The problem is that, in most cases, it costs nothing. Many free porn sites provide free content, and it certainly costs nothing. Pornography is a necessity for some people, so they are even willing to pay to subscribe to a platform. Today, it is a multi-billion dollar industry that is “driven” by the Internet.
Pornography is not a drug, but…
Pornography is not a drug, but at some point, it can become addictive, and since most simple counseling can break this addiction, pornography is a part of “normal society.” For many, pornography is something that can be tolerated as long as it doesn’t involve children, sadism, and bondage.
As an industry that relies heavily on the Internet, pornography also relies heavily on the existence of adult websites. Take the infamous Nookies.com, for example. These premium sites are the backbone of today’s porn industry, and what they offer is increasingly diverse, such as premium adult video and cam content.
As a multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry, pornography, more specifically online pornography, “employs” a lot of people who are mostly “freelancers”. They work freely and, in many cases, in their rooms using adult webcam platforms to capture as much audience as possible. More audience means more commissions. More commissions to “content creators” means more money going to those platforms. Basically, as long as it’s properly regulated, online porn is an industry that benefits everyone involved.
What are the prospects of the online porn industry?
There are many opinions, of course, and each of them has its reasons, but based on the current trends, AI-based pornographic content will increasingly fill the newly created niche. Generative AI content is increasingly filling our virtual world, and pornographic content is no exception. You can generate it in “one-way format” but also “two-way”, as thanks to certain AI applications, anyone can create their AI porn! Particularly popular today are apps that can “strip” any photo. Imagine being able to strip your favorite actress with results that are very close to her profile.
AI apps are taking porn to the next level, and that means more freedom for each user’s creativity to manifest in a real image or video. Once again, the porn industry is adapting to technological developments, and this is certainly good news for all porn lovers.
Pornography is about imagination and expectations
Pornography is basically a manifestation of the wild imaginations of its viewers. Not everyone, not even a very few, is lucky enough to have the exact sex life they desire. Many people don’t think they’ll be able to spend a night with the beautiful women of their dreams. That’s where pornographic content takes part in those imaginations, allowing everyone to seek out the sensual side of “any type of woman.” In today’s porn industry, all genres are available to satisfy everyone. Not all porn viewers are heterosexual, and not every one of them only craves super beautiful girls. Some may like fat girls, transvestites, and so on. Sexual fantasies are endless, and only those adult sites that are able to adapt to that will remain successful.
Pornography is as old as human civilization itself
Pornography is not “something that just came into our lives.” It dates back thousands of years and is probably almost as old as human civilization itself. Constantly changing its form, pornography, at its core, delivers the same message of nudity and exploration of sexual scenes for people to watch. We can find pornographic images in many ancient building sites, and that’s just a little bit of evidence that pornography has been around since time immemorial.
The Internet is the best channel for information, and since the Internet boom in the early 2000s, the flow of information in any form has been flowing to different parts of the world, not in a centralized manner. Everyone can create content and everyone can view content. In relation to pornography, all pornographic content is basically viewable by anyone. While there are restrictions here and there, there are no really strong restrictions to prevent one from enjoying a wide variety of pornographic content.
Porn sites are an extension of the creators, and ever since they started accommodating amateur creators, their porn content started undergoing an “evolution of sorts” that changed the face of the adult industry as a whole. There is no single entity that is truly dominant, and the free market of porn seems to open up a huge opportunity for anyone to succeed. These sites are not the only faces, and we still have a wide variety of apps and live show sites that anyone can use.
Pornography is the epitome of channeling people’s wild imaginations about sex, and the Internet is its most important facilitator. Popular porn sites are an extension of the porn industry (and all of its elements), and they are the closest to the porn viewers. And finally, the advent of AI and live show platforms brings more freedom for users to realize what they have in mind about how to enjoy sex.