Pornhub Is the Kinsey Report of Our Time
thecut.com
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Pornhub collects and analyzes a staggering amount of user data — some of which it uses, like those other companies, to help curate content and determine what a user sees. Pornhub also publicizes some of its anonymized findings on the company’s data-analytics blog, Pornhub Insights.
> Don't understand why this was flagged/killed
Just for everyone else, I tried to look at the guidelines for flagging but I'd just like to point out that it is OK to flag something that you consider
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But here's the interesting part:
> If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.
I didn't realize this was the meta. I've often seen people explaining their down votes but I have never seen anyone explain flagging. I guess down votes can still assume good faith but flagging usually does not?
Not that I ever flag but this was interesting reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've always wondered why straight porn can't be written with the modicum of a believable story to explain why the woman is there, and how she can enjoy what is usually mostly a one sided act to please the man. My guess is that believable stories/dialog/acting is a trifecta too difficult to pull off, at least under their typical budgets.
But don't you hear the woman's continuous ecstatic moaning? She's clearly the one being pleased./s
Porn has evolved into 7 minute clips people watch for free. There's no time for story, and apparently little demand.
I mean I always turn off the sound because those moans are never believable. My experience is that in real life women often dictate what needs to happen for them to be satisfied, they don't just go all googly because a man deigned to put his manhood inside her various openings.
There is very little believable fantasy in porn today. It's shitty porn really quickly and cheaply, because most people are only going to watch for free.
Nowadays, you can find whatever you want, even believable fantasy; it may just not be easy to find on a free site, since like the article explained, they're showing mostly previews and small clips.
...what?
To mention the Kinsey Report and then not talk about it in any detail (it's mentioned exactly once in the article in a near-throwaway line; to string together anecdotes one after the other without an apparent overall theme to unify them aside from their shock/giggle value; then a segue to Kink.com.
It's a dog's breakfast.
That breaks the HN guidelines by calling names. Please don't do that in comments here.