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Readings & Links - The Definition Of Pornography | American Porn | FRONTLINE |PBS

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"Pornography" (or "porn") usually refers to representations designed to arouse and give sexual pleasure to those who read, see, hear, or handle them. Although sexual stimulation would seem to be a splendid goal, it is not always so regarded in a society still characterized as puritanical.

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#5 Story: Porn for Women Explodes

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The past year will go down as one of the most monumental in porn's history - and perhaps the most significant since the dawn of the internet. Legislation, scandals, politicians, censorship left us reeling, applauding, laughing and cringing week after week.

Below, the most covered and most significant porn stories of 2018. - Alex Hawkins, Vice President xHamster

11. Nina Hartley Controversy in Wisconsin
Porn star and sex educator Nina Hartley was paid $5000 to speak with students at the University of Wisconsin-LaSalle about consent, and angry parents - not to mention Fox News - were outraged! The Chancellor who approved the payment ultimately had to pay the $5000 out of his own pocket, lest any tax dollars go to teaching k1ds about consent. Oh brother.

10. Starbucks Bans Porn
Bowing to pressure from conservative group Enough is Enough, burnt coffee chain Starbucks announced it would ban all porn from its wifi. A venti frap of congratulatory news stories followed, with virtually none of them pointing out that it's a non-issue manufactured by anti-porners, as no one has actually been accused of watching porn in Starbucks. (That said, based on xHamster uploads, plenty of people seem to be MAKING it there there.)

9. India Bans Porn
India banned porn. Or did it? The Indian government released a list of 827 banned sites in the country, only major porn sites reported no traffic dips. A similar ban in Nepal produced similar (non)-results. Still, it was enough to get the New York Times on the case - with an assist from us, of course.

8. Blackmail Bot Targets Porners
Trust us: there's nothing funnier than working at a porn company and getting an email that says "Send me some bitcoin or I'll expose your porn browsing history." But millions of people who don't work at a porn company were scared when a scammer bearing the fake threat tried to shake them down for cash.

7. Florida Bans Porn, Not Assault Rifles
In the wake of the Parkland shooting, many thought Florida politicians would take quick action on limiting access to AR-15s. Not exxxactly. On the same day it declined to take on the gun legislation, the legislature passed a non-scientific resolution labeling porn a "Public Health Crisis." Rounding out the crazy, a Tennessee politician blamed porn for the rise in gun vioIence.

6. Sex Workers Say #MeToo
Leigh Raven, Riley Raven, Jenny Blighe, Tasha Reign and others came forward this year with harrowing accounts of harassment, boundary vioIations and assault. We were proud to see so many speak up - and happy to see media outlets finally begin to listen.

5. Porn for Women Explodes
Few things captured the public imagination in 2018 as the idea that women were abandoning sugar, spice and The Good Wife to watch ... porn! Yes, from the New York Post to Maxim, mainstream media was on the hunt. What did they find? Women search for pretty much the same things that men do - although "daddy" and "pussy eating" rank a bit higher. But we've known this all along. Which is why we launched a Porn for Women channel in 2018, and created a Porn for Women Fund to help fill it! The result? Visits from women rose an ASTOUNDING 41% in 2018!

4. The FOSTA Freeze
When FOSTA legislation - an anti-trafficking bill that holds websites libel for content users post - was passed in the US, many predicted that it would have a dangerous ripple effect on porn. And it did! Soon after, fundraising site Patreon shut out porn stars who were producing, and Craigslist and Reddit shut down whole channels. Even Facebook jumped in, prohibiting people from talking thirsty, lest someone think it was prostitution.

3. August Ames, Kevin Moore and Jessica Drake
When porn star August Ames committed suicide in late 2018, her husband, director Kevin Moore was bereft. In January, during an AVN Awards speech, and in tweets after, Moore attacked those who he felt were responsible for her death, including porn star, director and activist Jessica Drake. The speech made headlines worldwide - coming on the heels as it did of other high-profile porn star deaths. Expect another flurry of headlines in 2019: Ames' death will be the subject of a high-profile new podcast from The Butterfly Effect's Jon Ronson, in January 2019.

2. Tumblr Porn Ban
Perhaps nothing changed pornography in 2018 as much as the loss of Tumblr. For fans, it was a platform with limitless, well-curated, adult content. For amateur porn stars, it was a source of income. For others, a source of community. The loss of Tumblr will reshape the modern porn industry, perhaps pushing people to tube sites or subscription content, and leave communities of trans, gay and fetish folks scrambling for new homes.

As tech journalist Violet Blue put it, " The Internet War on Sex is Here".

1. Stormy Daniels
The most searched for porn star of 2018 is no mystery. Stormy Daniels was the President's nemesis, the media's darling and the porn industry's champion. Stormy started off the year with a bang, added in a lawsuit, and appearance on 60 Minutes, a dancing tour, an arrest in Cleveland, a book deal, a toadstool and a defamation suit ... say what you will, Stormy Daniels is our Woman of the Year 2018!

*Lest we not forget our runners up in this amazing year, which included a Bigfoot porn loving legislator, Drake's porn star babymama, sex robots, porn loving Kanye West, the South Korean spycam protests, the Digital Economy Act and the # NoFap Nazis. Maybe we can rest in 2019?

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The past year will go down as one of the most monumental in porn's history - and perhaps the most significant since the dawn of the internet. Legislation, scandals, politicians, censorship left us reeling, applauding, laughing and cringing week after week. Below, the most covered and most significant porn stories of 2018.

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#1 Trend: 2019: Women Become Porn's Growth Market

The Official xHamster 2019 Trend Report

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XHamster Report on Digital Sexuality, Part 1

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Part 1: Bisexuality

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2019 xHamster Report on Digital Sexuality, Part 2

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Part 2: Religion

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2019 xHamster Report on Digital Sexuality, Part 2: Religion

Are very religious people secretly kinkier than the rest of us? A casual look at searches from users in religious areas like Utah and Alabama *might* give us some insight - or then again it could just show the heathens. So, this spring, we set out to explore the question in our second release of data from the 2019 xHamster Report on Digital Sexuality.

Earlier this year, over a three day period, we asked 11,000 visitors to xHamster a series of questions about who they were, what they watched, and how they felt about it. We also asked them how they identified religiously.

The answers were more surprising than we had thought - religious users turn out to be some of the biggest spenders in porn, much of it on cams and VR. And, lucky for the porn industry, nearly 10% of our user base identifies as "very religious," despite watching some very unholy videos!

Overall, 8.85% of all respondents described themselves as "very religious," (Women porn viewers were significantly more likely, at 13.1%).

Very religious users were more likely to be married, and more likely to identify as heterosexual. They were more likely to identify as "far right" or "conservative" and to live in the South. They were less likely to be having regular sex of any kind (about 35% said they had sex "rarely or never" and an additional 14.5% said it was only "a few times a year.")

As expected, right? But that's when things got weird. Because it turns out that religious people really don't like gay stuff, but really do like VR and cams - and are spending lots of money on porn.

The very religious were 44% more likely than average to rank "virtual reality" porn among their go-tos, and 40% more likely to watch "live cams." They're much bigger fans of softer, studio-produced videos, and much less likely to enjoy sinful content like gangbangs, BDSM and bisexual content.

And despite the fact that they showed a marked distaste for amateur content, they were MUCH more likely to believe that the porn they watch is real.

When presented with the statement "I think porn is an accurate portrayal of real world sex," very religious viewers were more than twice as likely to say that those horny stepsisters were an accurate portrayal of real life.

The number jumped when we compared them more specifically to non-religious types, like atheists and agnostics - in which case very religious viewers were four times more likely to say porn was real.

Now, maybe we're jaded because we work in the industry. But we sort of assumed that everyone knew that when you order a pizza with extra sausage, you get ... a pizza with extra sausage.

Then again, if you're not having sex so much, you don't have much to compare porn to.

Something else we noticed? Our very religious viewers weren't getting a lot of good sex ed. A majority of the very religious - 64% - said their formal sex education, like parents or schools, was adequate for understanding adult sexuality.

Not surprisingly, the very religious were also twice as likely as the general population to identify parents or family as their main source of sex and sexuality.

Now, it might be too much to ask religious parents to tell their flock that porn is natural, kind and good. But would it be too much to tell them it's not real?

There are consequences to this lack of sex ed. Without an adequate framing for porn - either through real sex ed, or with an actual partner - the religious feel much more shame about their sexuality.

Nearly half (45%) were conflicted about the porn they watch, and that number jumps when you look more narrowly at specifics like gay or BDSM content.

These numbers have a gender gap as well. Those most likely to feel anxiety about the porn they watch? Very religious, heterosexual women of color, nearly 70% of whom feel anxiety about watching porn. We've got to do better at teaching women that porn isn't shameful!

Perhaps another driver of anxiety is the amount of money that very religious people spend on porn.

The very religious were more than twice as likely to be big spenders - nearly 7% report spending over $1000 on porn in the past year.

Of course, even there they were conflicted. While they tend to spend more than average in large amounts, they were also less likely to spend moderate amounts, and more likely to spend nothing at all. The madonna/whore complex in action?

For more info on this or other survey data, contact:

CONTACT:
Alex Hawkins
Vice President, xHamster
alex.hawkins@xhamster.com

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2019 xHamster Report on Digital Sexuality, Part 2

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2019 xHamster Report on Digital Sexuality, Part 2: Religion Are very religious people secretly kinkier than the rest of us? A casual look at searches from users in religious areas like Utah and Alabama *might* give us some insight - or then again it could just show the heathens.

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