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{{quote|''"If you really look into the history of our technological development, you'll notice that the force driving us forward all this time wasn't our need to better ourselves or seek out truth in all its forms, but rather our desire to see naked people touch each other's junk."''
|''[[Cracked.com]]'', [http://www.cracked.com/article_18888_5-ways-porn-created-modern-world.html "5 Ways Porn Created the Modern World"]}}
{{quote|''"When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark." As soon as Caxton invented the printing press, we were using it to make pictures of, hey, naked bottoms! [[The Internet Is for Porn|We have turned the Internet into an enormous international database of naked bottoms.]] So you see, the story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms."''
|Steve Taylor, ''[[Coupling]]''}}
Supposedly, the first group of content providers to colonize a new medium once it becomes commercially viable will almost always be the producers of adult-oriented material—that is, porn.
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== Anime
* [[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." Hentai even ''subverts'' this trope, as popular hentai anime, manga, or video game series [[Bleached Underpants|are then turned into]] more "[[Moral Guardians|Moral Guardian-friendly]]" adaptations.
** 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]]''...
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** In fact, it's pretty much eliminated a once-standard shot, the cowboy. Imitating the point of view of a man who is having sex with the woman on top with better video cameras mean those breast implant scars are really visible from that angle.
* Parodied in ''[[Coupling]]'' in which, after making a brave attempt at rationalizing his possession of a movie called "Lesbian Spank Inferno" [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|with in-depth critical and symbolic analysis]] to the other members of a dinner party after his female friends bring it up to embarrass him, Steve cracks and engages in a lengthy and not-unconvincing rant in which he makes the case that the entire history of human artistic and technological development has been motivated solely so that men could get a better look at women's bottoms.
* In the ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' seemed to be the only ''[[Star Trek]]'' series to realise that the ''only'' thing most people would use a holodeck for would be having sex. Quark's was essentially a holo-brothel, although the Federation characters were just a bit too squeaky clean to ever use it for that (that we saw). You might wonder how anyone would ever get anything done in the 24th Century with the ability to create fully functional, three-dimensional interactive characters that have no free will whatsoever.
** As Scott Adams (creator of ''[[Dilbert]])'' once wrote, "The holodeck will be [[The End of the World as We Know It|mankind's last invention.]]"
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