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A very naive thought, but isn't it a bit different for porn sites because of the existence of orgasms? If I'm watching TikTok and a really good video comes on I am encouraged to watch more but if there is a really good porn video I'm ... Done? At least for that session. So it's like they want to keep dopamine levels not cranked up, but at sustained medium levels.

Again, I don't know anything about UX, please tell me if I'm wrong.

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Probably, but you still want to maximize the amount of time users are on the site, or the amount of pages they visit. Orgasms are just an additional complication, I'd imagine.

TikTok, Netflix, Instagram and other sites specifically designed to be sticky (no pun intended) also have this problem although it isn't orgasms. It is that people need to sleep.

I would say their main problem is the amount of bathrooms available per person.

Why? I’d optimize for ad views. More time watching is more of my bandwidth.

Agreed, the goal is the same. But my point is that additional complication is unique to this industry and looks unlike any other behavior UX tackles

I think that orgasms add to the experience, you cum to something and next time you probably will want to view content similar to that.

Yes, true. But I don't think the good people over at pornhub are targeting for this. They are targeting longest watch time.

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