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* When digital image compression algorithms were being researched in the early 70s, they would most probably be tested on "[[wikipedia:Lenna|Lenna]]", the informally default test image that happened to be scanned from the November 1972 [[Playboy]] centerfold.
** This particular image is cropped to a head-and-shoulder shot, with an arguably [[Longing Look|suggestive expression]] but no display of naughty bits.
* In ''[[Cracked.com]]''
** ''[[Cracked]]'' published anAn 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 [http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/scanning-the-future-of-3d-printed-sex-toys-nsfw real-life 3D printed sex toys] though.
 
== Photography ==