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"I'm fairly sure if they took porn off the Internet, there'd only be one website left, and it'd be called 'Bring Back the Porn!'"
Let's face it. The Internet, and a lot of people's computers, are full of porn. Whether you're portraying modern days, the VR-laden future, or another universe entirely, any computer network of a sufficient size will have a place where one can indulge in the pleasures of the flesh. Well, actually, unless they develop telepresence devices for implementing ''feeling'', all we'll be able to do is watch.
Reality check: it's not actually. It's mostly advertising. See the QI example below.
Partly a result of The Rule Of First Adopters. Related to the Porn Stash.
Examples:
Anime and Manga
- Welcome To The NHK — at one point Satou secludes himself from the outside world (even more) to fill his harddrive with porn. When he runs out of disk space, he starts deleting other stuff. Like his operating system files. Whoops.
- Chobits — Let's not forget that the main character wanted a Persocon specifically to "surf the porn sites"
- Paranoia Agent — a sleazy reporter investigating the "Lil' Slugger" case "borrows" a library computer used by two adolescent boys. When he gives it back to the boys, they promptly return to the site they were originally looking at, which is - you guessed it - a Japanese soft-core porn site.
- In RD Senno Chosashitsu, it is explained that this is the prime reason most of the population supported the development of the Meta-Real Network.
- In Bloody Monday the main character tells his younger sister he's looking at porn, but that's only to keep her from peeking in on his hacking activities. Sick, but effective.
Film
Literature
- Dave Barry In Cyberspace frequently returns to the theme of computers being an excellent media for sexual content.
- In fact, he even devotes a chapter of the book to his visit to "Adult Dex" a trade convention for pornographic computer games.
- America: The Book referred to the Internet as a source of communication, information, and "a staggering array of human sexual fetish".
- Wally's attempt at making downloading porn his job wasn't the first time Scott Adams satirized the subject. His article, The Holodeck Problem, says that real-life, Star Trek-like holodecks would be problematic because...well, you could probably figure out what the problem would be. He's even quoted as saying "it will be society's last invention." You can read the whole article here
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Live Action TV
- In Joan Of Arcadia, Joan's younger brother was shown to have an addiction to Internet porn.
- However, he blamed it on his less geeky best friend, who did indeed routinely use that computer. It was never made quite clear who stored the porn on his computer.
- In Chuck, a bomb is disarmed via a porn site that scrambles the computer of anyone using it.
- Scrubs: According to Dr. Cox the internet is for porn, as evidenced by the page quote.
- Somewhat relatedly, at one point Elliot says she created a chatroom called "I hate Cox", then adds the only people who go there are "Me, two interns, and 5,000 lesbians."
- Subverted in Dexter : when the show's protagonist (and serial-killer) is interrupted while tampering with the police database, he promptly alt-tabs to a porn site, because that's what you *do*, alone in an office with the blinds pulled down, isn't it ?
- House, when the titular character was trying to get out of doing something: "There's a lot of porn piling up on the internet...doesn't download itself!"
House: Sorry - up late. Internet porn.
Dr. Chase: How come you’re not in your office?
House: Because there is a computer in my office. If I log on, romance will ensue. My wrist might fall off.
House: Infectious or environmental... all we have to do is check out parasites, viruses, bacteria, fungi, prions, radiation, toxins, chemicals, or it's internet porn related. I'll check the internet, you guys get the rest of the stuff.
House, to a Fellow: What's the matter? Got a problem with the naked female form?
Fellow: N-no...
Thirteen: Maybe because she's never seen it spooning with the naked dolphin form.
- Recent Top Gear running joke -
Clarkson: This week I went on the internet, and I found this!
- Odyssey 5. Given that the Sentients increase their artificial intelligence by absorbing code off the internet, they naturally pick up a lot of porn, so the synthetic human the group encounter in "The Trouble With Harry" is more than eager to explore this aspect with a couple of Kurt Mendel's good-time girls.
- Referenced in QI, when Stephen Fry asked what makes up 80% of the internet and got the expected response, before revealing that a study shows that less than 1% of the internet is porn.
- 73.79% of traffic is caused by peer-to-peer, 66.7% of this is Bit Torrent and 13.05% of this is made up by porn (so non-bittorrent porn is not counted in the publicly available information). See the Internet Study 2007 by ipoque.
- In Coupling the men debate the merits of drugs used in pregnancy, by the stating that there is no such thing as a natural, painless pregnancy, and that the Internet is "research tool."
- The holodeck in Star Trek seems to be treated an awful lot like the more cerebral version of this. Considering that at least two characters have had full-on romances on the holodeck...
- And don't forget Lt. Barclay's "programs"...
- The Sopranos. When Tony's daughter realises they're likely to be raided by the FBI soon, she advises her brother to erase all that porn he downloaded off his hard drive.
- From Will And Grace:
Grace: Hey, what are you doing?
Will: All my plants died. I told Jack to water them while I was away. But I can see how he might hear that as "fill up my hard drive with Internet porn."
- On Supernatural, each Winchester brother apparently enjoys watching porn when
they think the other isn't looking. Running Gags include bustyasianbeauties.com and Casa Erotica.
Music
- Defunct a cappella group DaVinci's Notebook / DVN's-break-up survivor group Paul & Storm and their number Internet Porn, which contains a number of amusing(ly accurate) allusions to the sort of content one can find ("Girl on girl on girl on girl on girl on guy on sheep").
- DVN is fairly well represented on You Tube, including The Captain's Wife's Lament ("What if we spent an entire song setting up just one Incredibly Lame Pun?") and Enormous Penis, making them lampshaders of a demographic they arguably contribute to.
Newspaper Comics
- This exchange from Dilbert deserves mention. Wally is setting out his long-range project goals at an annual staff meeting
Wally: My proposed work plan for the year is to stress-test our product under severe network conditions. I will accomplish this by downloading large image files from the busiest servers on the net.
Wally: (after his proposal is rejected) I was this close to making it my job to download dirty images.
Software
- The name of Mozilla Firefox's image decoding library? libpr0n.
Theatre
Webcomics
- In Questionable Content number 112 the Anthro PC Pintsize claims to be objective at judging female breasts because of all the porn he had downloaded for Marten. In a later strip, while he browses his hard drive, he comes across his Porn Stash and gets distracted from his task. And in yet another strip Marten has to take him to be repaired by Marigold, a yaoi fangirl, and she remarks on the amount of porn in Pintsize (then copies the hentai folder).
- The situation is commented on in this http://techfox.comicgenesis.com/d/20090629.html page of 21st Century Fox.
Western Animation
Real Life
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