Where Is Porn Headed?
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SamScribble
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That sounds about right, Ogg.
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Visual porn and erotica is always someone else's vision. Written work enables the reader to create their own vision, using the writer's words as their trigger. I think there will always be a very big place for written material, for exactly that reason.
SamScribble
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I'm getting old. When I was younger - much younger - porn was rare and surprising. I remember a chap I knew slipping me a pack of fuzzy B&W photographs of a scrawny woman with two blokes and a German Shepherd dog. Erotica, on the other hand, was (generally) literate. We didn't have the Interweb, of course. Most of us didn't even have 16mm film. I guess the world changes. And it will continue to change. (Discuss.)
More anime/digital/cartoon, for guys. More bestiality and fantasy for girls. And the erotic literature will actually go up.
Porn may move more and more away from movies to games, cartoons, commissioned art, and commisioned literature. Cycling back to the old ancient porn industry of art and story.
Porn may move more and more away from movies to games, cartoons, commissioned art, and commisioned literature. Cycling back to the old ancient porn industry of art and story.
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Two different questions, two different answers:
1. Where porn is headed -- virtual reality and more social media/interaction. More precisely, it's hard to say.
2. What I will be writing in 5 years -- I have no idea but I hope I am doing a better job of it than I am now.
1. Where porn is headed -- virtual reality and more social media/interaction. More precisely, it's hard to say.
2. What I will be writing in 5 years -- I have no idea but I hope I am doing a better job of it than I am now.
OmnislashXX
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As an avid viewer of hentai (animated porn), it used to be good. You could find a good hentai that had story and sex intermingled, which was quite different from just straight out porn. You could find all sorts of subjects, like perverted demons and creepy tentacles. When the form went more American, it sort of became heavy with BDSM and blackmail, though I always found blackmail stories to be simply unbelievable with the women usually being complete pushovers. Nowadays. though, I would prefer that as you rarely if ever see anything new anymore. If you want pprn, the internet seems to be the way to go these days. Most video stores are having a hard time this day and age with selling anything-let alone porn. If you want anything, your gonna have to stream it. (That kinda sucks with hentai too because they love to mosaic that shit)
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Yesterday I had three notifications from YouTube each time saying that a saved list of mine had been deleted for 'inappropriate content'. None of the videos were mine. I had created lists to bookmark them. They were mild consensual BDSM but now they are gone...
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Youtube has that dark corner of the basement, it just takes some looking to get there. Even so, it's not the preferred place for 'erotic viewing'. The folks there try to keep it clean, probably because of how much public use it recieves.
Then there is Netflix. Mostly, Netflix does keep it clean, though there are some dirty shows in it's collective depths. Softcore, or as close to softcore as you can get mind you, but still.
Then there is Netflix. Mostly, Netflix does keep it clean, though there are some dirty shows in it's collective depths. Softcore, or as close to softcore as you can get mind you, but still.
oggbashan
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Much of what was deleted was from Russian uploads.
But almost everything is still available on xhamster.
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Radio, then TV were both going to kill book publishing. Neither came close. They aren't mutually exclusive.
The first thing I thought about when I read your post was Stan Freberg's famous bit on why radio advertising is better than television advertising. Very funny and makes your point exactly.
I don't know the policy here on outside links so just search youtube for Stretching the Imagination or Stan Freberg. It's there.
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My guess is, in 5 years, mainstream porn will continue to be disgusting and degrading towards women, and any that has any beauty or sensitivity will continue to be considered "niche" porn aimed towards women.
I will probably still be writing the same kind of stuff I am now and generally ignoring and avoiding porn itself.
I will probably still be writing the same kind of stuff I am now and generally ignoring and avoiding porn itself.
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Yes, right. Like GM porn does that.
I think that porn will continue to head toward the bed.
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Well the government is, why wouldn't porn?
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5 years - virtual reality headsets. it'll be visually gorgeous, all about what guys like and ultimately unfulfilling. And expensive.
15-20 years - AI and robotics in unholy matrimony, with automated sex dolls good enough to be something other than laughable. It'll be expensive, disturbing (imagine BSDM when you can be as rough as you like, but the bruises have faded by the next day), and I hope ultimately unfulfilling. They'll be too expensive to replace prostitutes, and at first not as good, but they will rapidly improve. They might even be able to hold believable conversations for the length of an encounter, or at least as believable as a prostitute's.
50-75 years - direct neurostim will be solved, and the experiences will be effectively indistinguishable from reality. People will fall in love with, and fight over, things that don't actually exist. As the science improves, the experiences will be better than sex itself. Addiction problems will make heroin look like a joke.
100 years - nothing we'd possibly understand today. Just pray it has an off switch.
People will continue to read, at least up until the AIs can read well enough to act out the stories for (and with) us.
15-20 years - AI and robotics in unholy matrimony, with automated sex dolls good enough to be something other than laughable. It'll be expensive, disturbing (imagine BSDM when you can be as rough as you like, but the bruises have faded by the next day), and I hope ultimately unfulfilling. They'll be too expensive to replace prostitutes, and at first not as good, but they will rapidly improve. They might even be able to hold believable conversations for the length of an encounter, or at least as believable as a prostitute's.
50-75 years - direct neurostim will be solved, and the experiences will be effectively indistinguishable from reality. People will fall in love with, and fight over, things that don't actually exist. As the science improves, the experiences will be better than sex itself. Addiction problems will make heroin look like a joke.
100 years - nothing we'd possibly understand today. Just pray it has an off switch.
People will continue to read, at least up until the AIs can read well enough to act out the stories for (and with) us.
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Perhaps in five years I'll be able to finally see the WORDS I wrote in my old stories and post them on Lit. Of course, by then I'll be looking down on all of you perverts and sending the stories via air mail!
Perhaps in five years I'll be able to finally see the WORDS I wrote in my old stories and post them on Lit. Of course, by then I'll be looking down on all of you perverts and sending the stories via air mail!
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Porn Isn't Erotica
Even after decades of viewing porn, and seeing porn evolve in it's tech media to the HD, crystal-clear format it now has, I still return to erotica again and again. There are several reasons for this. First, porn does a very poor job engaging my thoughts and fantasies. I watch porn as a voyeur. It doesn't appeal to me at the same emotional and intellectual level as erotica does. Second, porn is driven by exploitation. There are men and women who are willfully used for money to carry out sex acts to sell videos and memberships to websites, etc. Erotica is pure fantasy, no one is actually involved in any action or contact that they may later regret. It is a good deal more wholesome as a result. Third, porn has become progressively more profane. Spitting, "cum-eating/drinking," gang bangs, escalating scenes of violence, scenes humiliating both men and women, it is progressively become more obscene. Erotica seems to have readers in many niches, several are centuries old. The beauty of the written word prevails. Finally, and more personally, erotica is a story. Porn does an absolutely terrible job telling the story of our fantasies, and therefore will always fall short.
Even after decades of viewing porn, and seeing porn evolve in it's tech media to the HD, crystal-clear format it now has, I still return to erotica again and again. There are several reasons for this. First, porn does a very poor job engaging my thoughts and fantasies. I watch porn as a voyeur. It doesn't appeal to me at the same emotional and intellectual level as erotica does. Second, porn is driven by exploitation. There are men and women who are willfully used for money to carry out sex acts to sell videos and memberships to websites, etc. Erotica is pure fantasy, no one is actually involved in any action or contact that they may later regret. It is a good deal more wholesome as a result. Third, porn has become progressively more profane. Spitting, "cum-eating/drinking," gang bangs, escalating scenes of violence, scenes humiliating both men and women, it is progressively become more obscene. Erotica seems to have readers in many niches, several are centuries old. The beauty of the written word prevails. Finally, and more personally, erotica is a story. Porn does an absolutely terrible job telling the story of our fantasies, and therefore will always fall short.
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Never in my life have I fantasized about a woman with more ink on her skin than a monthly magazine and more piercings than a shrapnel victim. At least in print, if the author insists on describing someone like that, I can modify it in my head if the rest of the story is good.
I have NO idea who the current version of porn is intended for. Kind of scary to think that there are enough people out there who want what you described to support a multibillion dollar industry.
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There is a major division between hardcore porn and erotica/softcore, especially in these days. With porn, it's just sex, really usually done by amateur filmmakers whom really can struggle to film a scene. Hardcore is just about the sex and that is pretty much it.
Personally, I like to have the story with the sex. It's much more arousing to know why the people are where they are at the time and what the driving factors are. With softcore though, you may be only getting certain views ( sorry but I kinda want to see everything, not just T&A). but that's the risk.
Kinda why I found hentai more engaging, because it was the best of both worlds even if it was animated.
But as for where Porn has really headed, well, truer words have never been said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhCL5Ygzc24
Personally, I like to have the story with the sex. It's much more arousing to know why the people are where they are at the time and what the driving factors are. With softcore though, you may be only getting certain views ( sorry but I kinda want to see everything, not just T&A). but that's the risk.
Kinda why I found hentai more engaging, because it was the best of both worlds even if it was animated.
But as for where Porn has really headed, well, truer words have never been said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhCL5Ygzc24
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As far as the original question goes, I think a next step is an interactive home machine that you can hook up to porn vids and your own body and that will give you the physical sensations of your partner of choice in a vid--and then can be cleaned up easily afterward. They probably exist now but not for the home market, I don't think.
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Beyond remote control vibrators, these don't exist. And any such machine is still a few years out.
Most of the problems are legal: safety concerns. If it's good enough to get you off, it's complex enough and uses enough energy to be able to hurt you. Sex dolls are harmless, motionless rubber for a reason.
The rest is the limitations of AI. Nobody watches the same porn video more than a handful of times because you get saturated and need something different. Sure, you could make a machine to squeeze your cock just when the actresses squeezes a cock in the movie, but experience it once and it's predictable thereafter; and hence unsexy. An AI has to be complicated enough to surprise you - in effect to make the movie and the sensations different every time.
My guess is, nothing physical will happen in terms of automated sex until technology gets far enough long in several areas to make a robot that looks, feels, talks and moves convincingly like a human female. And wow is that hard. "Talks" is still a major stumbling block - Apple tries very, very hard, and look at how badly Siri does.
No rush anyway. Actual humans are much more interesting.
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I agree that computing power will put more physical contact in porn videos, but I actually expect that it won't be as "mainstream" as it is now. Too many people are pushing against it publicly, but that's happened for years. VR headsets, smell generators, and force-feedback body suits / underwear could be popular on the cheap side, and AI sex bots for the rich.
But erotica? The written stuff? Same thing as now, I'd wager.
You can read it on your phone/tablet while out in public anywhere, like I'm doing now on the bus. A dirty picture or video in public could get me a visit from the cops. Or public (non sexy) shaming.
The books are always better than the movies, right? In five years I'll probably still be writing smut, and hopefully selling it for $1million a year for two hours of typing per day. (HAHAHAHAHAH, riiiight)
I don't think the allure of written erotica will go away. From what history has shown us, it's always been sought after, and in pretty much every civilization.
But erotica? The written stuff? Same thing as now, I'd wager.
You can read it on your phone/tablet while out in public anywhere, like I'm doing now on the bus. A dirty picture or video in public could get me a visit from the cops. Or public (non sexy) shaming.
The books are always better than the movies, right? In five years I'll probably still be writing smut, and hopefully selling it for $1million a year for two hours of typing per day. (HAHAHAHAHAH, riiiight)
I don't think the allure of written erotica will go away. From what history has shown us, it's always been sought after, and in pretty much every civilization.
