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* Eventually, the medium reaches its developmental limit, forming its "climax community." This is the point at which the new medium and its associated community will no longer develop due to the fact that said medium's boundaries have been pushed as far as possible. As such, it can no longer support any more organisms than it already is (radio is at this stage).
Of course, the reason this trope practically exists is because [[Freud Was Right]]. A result of this rule is (in part) why [[The Internet Is for Porn]]. Can contribute to the perception that [[New Media Are Evil]]. May be a [[Mundane Utility]]
See also [[Rule 34]] and [[Intercourse with You]]. See [[Video Game Perversity Potential]] for this trope as applied to video game editors.
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* [[Hentai]]. An actual strange case, hentai actually ''precedes'' the [[Anime]] forms most Westerners are familiar with; the Rule of First Adopters applies to anime in microcosm as it's applied to individual series, with often the first adaptations of successful anime or manga series being pornographic "retellings
** And don't forget ''[[wikipedia:The Dream of the Fishermanchr(27)s Wife|The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife]],'' (link is [[The Other Wiki]]) which is [[Naughty Tentacles|tentacle]] hentai [[Older Than They Think|dating back to]] ''[[Older Than They Think|1820]]''...
** More importantly, the anime/manga ecosphere gets quite a bit of talent from the doujinshisphere, which is very often populated with hentai doujinshi's of popular anime/manga.
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* Similarly to ''[[Caprica]]'', the [[Shirow Masamune]] series ''[[Real Drive]]''. The potentially world changing Meta-real was popularized as and continues to be used for sexy purposes.
▲== Art ==
* It's older than that too. Note nudes in art and people have got to have been the bodies for all those naked Greek statues.
** Those pristine white marble statues were originally painted. With extreme accuracy.
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** An article regarding this phenomenon and [[Tropes Are Not Bad|its positive implications]], [http://www.cracked.com/article_18888_5-ways-porn-created-modern-world.html 5 Ways Porn Created the Modern World].
** One of [http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_673_22-terrible-ways-we-would-use-sci-fi-technology/ 22 Terrible Ways We Would Use Sci-Fi Technology] is using a ''[[Star Trek]]'' replicator to make a sex toy. It wouldn't be a stretch from [https://web.archive.org/web/20140728040659/http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/scanning-the-future-of-3d-printed-sex-toys-nsfw real-life 3D printed sex toys] though.
* [[w:Deepfake|Deepfake technology]] was immediately colonized by [[w:Deepfake pornography|pornographers]] when it became known to the world at large in 2017. By 2021, though, it has begun the transition into [https://www.wired.com/story/deepfakes-making-business-pitches a tool of business] with accounting firm EY's use of deepfake-generated avatars in corporate videos and online meetings. To escape the stigma of the pornographers, they are calling the avatars "artificial reality identities".
* The only major use case for multiple angles on DVDs, besides internationalization and on other niche cases such as concerts, is for erotica, as it sure is exciting for the viewer to see the action unfold at different camera angles.
== Photography ==
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* Many of the first advertisements for digital cameras slyly hinted—or all but said—that now consumers could make their own porn without worrying about sending it off for processing. See item number four (and its accompanying images) in the [http://www.cracked.com/article_18888_5-ways-porn-created-modern-world.html Cracked.com article mentioned above].
* It's believed a similar dynamic is at work with the quick adoption of camera phones.
* [https://9gag.com/gag/agvberq/the-mobile-phone-evolution This cartoon] suggests this trope as the reason smartphones and phones with big screens became popular (and why screen size keeps increasing on such devices)
== Toys ==
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** [[This Is Wrong on So Many Levels|That is wrong for SO MANY REASONS.]]
** There's a reason why those anatomically correct dolls are called "Dutch wives".
* Vibrators were also among the first electrical gadgets. One notable case was the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' vibrating broomstick toy, only for the more raunchy crowd to adopt it as a cheap alternative to the likes of the Hitachi Magic Wand with sex shops stocking them up. Mattel understandably took umbrage and discontinued the toy not long after.
== Video Games ==
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* It's not too uncommon of an occurrence for people to take pictures of their genitals as their first photo on the Game Boy Camera, or on it's [[Spiritual Successor]] in the [[D Si]]. With the 3DS on the market now (with its novel and unique 3D camera), people will ensure that it fits this trope.
* ''[[Minecraft]]'' and its gigantic penis monuments in Creative mode.
* While the early computer game industry had relatively few sex
** The early video game industry had even less room for sex, which is not surprising given the perceived target audience. This was especially true on the consoles, where the hardware was hardly up to the task, and the market severely restricted by high entry costs and the watchful eyes of the [[Moral Guardians]]. Nonetheless, at least one company released a few such titles, the most infamous of
** In Japan, some of the first early personal computer games were [[Eroge]]s, with [[Koei]] releasing what is claimed to be one of the first erotic simulation games ever, ''Night Life'', in 1982. Some of the most famous developers, like [[Square]], [[Enix]], [[Hudson Soft]] and [[Nihon Falcom]], began theirs careers as developers of erotic games before finding success with more mainstream titles. Some popular genres like the [[Visual Novel]] and the [[Dating Sim]] began in the realm of eroge before their [[Bleached Underpants|undergarments were bleached]].
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* ''[[Hijinks Ensue]]'' brings up the Holodeck quite wonderfully [https://web.archive.org/web/20130730052202/http://hijinksensue.com/2008/04/25/later-he-changed-the-name-to-holodeck/ right here]. ([[NSFW|Not entirely safe for work,]] but good for a laugh.) Turns out they had to change the name.
* The page quote comes from [http://threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2007-03-12 this ''Three Panel Soul'' strip], concerning whether HD-DVD or Blu-Ray will be the new format.
* Touched upon in [http://xkcd.com/924/ this] ''[[xkcd]]'' comic, though not strictly porn...
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* Porn might be older than humanity itself. It has been shown that monkeys will [http://www.bioedonline.org/news/news.cfm?art=1551 give up their juice in exchange for a brief glimpse at a female monkey's hindquarters.] It wouldn't be too unreasonable to think that our close ancestors would trade a look at someone's body in exchange for something else.
* Probably the most famous prehistoric art in the world consists of rock carvings of big-breasted naked women.
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