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== New Media, technology ==
* On the flip side, while [[The Internet Is for Porn|porn colonized the World Wide Web]] at a rate just under the speed of light, the economies of the digital world suggest that it's never going to be relegated to a "niche" market there.{{verify}}
** As part of that colonization, porn led the way (or was right there on the front lines) in technical innovations such as streaming video, online commerce and secure purchasing, site password protection and verification, CAPTCHAs and of course the spread of broadband.
** Porn broadband traffic wasn't overtaken by social networking traffic until ''2011'', making porn the biggest thing on the 'net for more than ''ten years.'' Summed up rather nicely [http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/state_web_summer/porn.png by the Oatmeal].
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** 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.
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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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