History Main / TheInternetIsForPorn

-->'''Wally:''' (after his proposal is rejected) I was ''this close'' to making it my job to download dirty images.

* Invoked to explain why the alien data beings encountered so far are so obsessed with sex in ''Trans Venus.'' The implications for any such being evolving on Earth are... disturbing.

* A somewhat example with ''Little Children'', where Sarah's husband becomes addicted to a specific porn persona on the internet, going to such an extreme that he is caught by Sarah [[spoiler: [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown masturbating to the porn girl with her online bought panties over his face]].]]

* ''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.

** This is even funnier when you remember that in ''Xenosaga'', their version of the internet makes use of [[DreamLand an extradimensional space that is actually Humanity's Collective Unconscious]]. Goes to show what's ''really'' on everybody's minds...

* In ThreeWorldsCollide, [[http://lesswrong.com/lw/y7/the_super_happy_people_38/ porn is for the Internet]].

** And in ''Bender's Big Score'', Bender receives a spam email claiming that he could make money from downloading porn. When he clicks on it, he's infected with a total obedience virus.

*** "[[AndAnotherThing [[spoiler:Oh and delete your internet history.]]]]" Granted, it's possible this comment had more to do with the fact that he just [[HollywoodHacking [[spoiler:hacked into, and sent a virus to all the world's computers.]]]]

** "The Eleventh Hour" [[spoiler: The Doctor walking in on Jeff and grabbing at his computer, which Jeff desperately tries to hide. Once the Doctor sees what he was watching, he just rolls his eyes and tells Jeff to get a girlfriend.]] He later adds [[spoiler: "Oh and delete your internet history."]]
*** Although the second part might have more to do with the fact that he just [[spoiler: hacked into, and sent a virus to all the world's computers.]] It was likely both, but...

* 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, ''StarTrek''-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 [[http://www.gamecouch.com/2008/01/the-holodeck-problem-and-interview-with-dr-judith-barad/ here]].

Seriously, what are you doing on ''this'' website?

** Since {{Chobits}} was written by [[{{Clamp}} women]], even women are aware that the Internet is for porn.

--->'''Thirteen:''' Maybe because she's never seen it spooning with the naked ''dolphin'' form.

* ''{{Chobits}}'' -- Let's not forget that the main character wanted a persocom specifically to "surf the porn sites"

* Hivemind from "The Overlord Protocol" aludes to this trope with this quote: "I was granted instantaneous and total access to the entire Internet, Mr. Malpense. To be honest, I feel... dirty."

* Inverted 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!"

* 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 ''StarTrek'' 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...

* [[MCFrontalot MC Frontalot]]'s "Pr0n Song", which is about all of the various and sundry bizarre porn he's (Or at least the character for the song) accumulated from the internet.

** Pintsize's hard drive has been described as a 'private universe of porn', and his Twitter account is nothing but hentai and RuleThirtyFour. Which Marigold then rates the artwork of.

* In the ''EndlessFrontier'', this exchange occurs:
-->'''[[CapcomVsWhatever Reiji]]''':It's funny what you can learn when you spend all day wasting time on the Internet, isn't it?
-->'''[[{{Xenosaga}} KOS-MOS]]''':Strange... In my time, the Internet is for---

* In ''{{Questionable Content}}'' number 112 the [=AnthroPC=] 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 PornStash and gets distracted from his task. And in yet another strip Marten has to take him to be repaired by [[YaoiFangirl Marigold]], who remarks on the amount of porn in Pintsize (then copies the hentai folder).

* ''[[TheDailyShow America: The Book]]'' referred to the Internet as a source of communication, information, and "a staggering array of human sexual fetish".

* Porn isn't the largest part of the Net, but it's certainly the ''most visited'' part. That's where the illusion comes from.

* ''DoctorWho'' "The Eleventh Hour" [[spoiler: The Doctor walking in on Jeff and grabbing at his computer, which Jeff desperately tries to hide. Once the Doctor sees what he was watching, he just rolls his eyes and tells Jeff to get a girlfriend.]]
** And later [[spoiler: "Oh and delete your internet history."]]

* Actually [[http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/16007733.html only one percent]] of the Internet is porn.
** Depends what you're into. Through the number of fetishes and widely used symonyms, it would be near impossible to accurately track every pornographic website, as evidenced by the astonishing failures of all siteblocker programs that even attempt to do so.
** You're counting slashfic and erotica, which is much more porn for women? You're counting folks who search for pictures of attractive people in a non-sexual manner? Porn is what you make of it.
*** In fact, taking [[RuleThirtyFour Rule 36]] into account, one could argue that [[BeyondTheImpossible EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD]] is porn!

** This troper would rather not have a link in his browser history that says "pornographic image child", less I draw the attention of the FBI.

* A somewhat example with ''Little Children'', where Sarah's husband becomes addicted to a specific porn persona on the internet, going to such an extreme that he is caught by Sarah [[spoiler: [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown masturbating to the porn girl with her online bought panties over his face]]. SoYeah.]]

* On ''30Rock'' during their staff's temporary stay in Boston Pete informs them that they won't have internet access, and advises the guys to make arrangements "porn-wise".