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* ''Anime/SpaceDandy'': A Chameleonian, an alien race whose true identity has not been seen by man, sneaks onto the Aloha Oe and messes with the gang by using Dandy's toothbrush, eating Meow's octopus flavored Popsicle, and visiting porn sites on QT's phone.

* In ''Manga/BloodyMonday'' 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.

* The whole reason Riko and Ako in ''kiss×sis'' get a computer is for porn since it's free and uncensored. Of course, their plan fails.
* In ''Literature/{{Oreimo}}'', a mad Kirino confronts her brother Kyousuke about this after finding out that he used her laptop to surf for porn in episode 7; but [[{{Hypocrite}} she gave him the laptop so he could play one of her numerous]] {{eroge}}s, so it's not clear what she's offended about...
* In ''Manga/PoorPoorLips'', Nako's first attempt to use the Internet lands her in a porn site.
-->'''Ren:''' D-Don't look! \\
'''Nako:''' Umm... [[OlderThanSheLooks I'm 21 years old, you know]].\\
'''Ren:''' You still shouldn't.
* The only time the Internet was used in ''Manga/GirlFriends2006'' involved a scene where Akko was surfing porn as research on how to have sex [[spoiler:[[LipstickLesbian with Mari]].]]
* {{Downplayed|trope}} in episode 4 of ''Manga/KiniroMosaic''. Aya thinks that Isami doesn't allow Shinobu to use the former's computer (with a lame excuse) was due to the latter's non-sexual blonde fetish. Aya's ImagineSpot of what Shinobu would do if she finds pictures of blondes online makes Shinobu's response look similar to a horny guy's response to pornography.
* In ''Manga/MidoriDays'', Seiji and Midori go into a library at one point to find information. Seiji, not having had much experience with the Internet, is quite impressed with the search engine, and is halfway through typing "big tits" when Midori interrupts him.
* The first {{Omake}} of ''Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya 3rei'' had the following exchange after Kuro displayed a surprising amount of knowledge about {{Yaoi}}.
--> '''Illya:''' Just how are you so well-informed about this, Kuro!?\\
'''Kuro:''' I saw it on the Internet.\\
'''Illya:''' This is all because of the net generation!
* In chapter 0 of ''Manga/ACentaursLife'', centaur Himeno has worried that her private parts looked abnormal ever since a boy had taunted her with a cow's rear end on an elementary school field trip. Her friend Nozomi's first idea for settling her anxiety is to go search the internet for porn, but Himeno's family doesn't have a computer.

* After ComicBook/SpiderMan reveals his secret identity during ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', so many people google "Peter Parker" that [[DemandOverload it crashes the entire Internet.]] Including the porn sites.

* Invoked in ''Fanfic/{{Lovehammer}}'' by ''[[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 The God-Emperor of Mankind]]'', speaking to the Mechanicus.
-->'''The Emperor:''' No, it is perfectly normal for global network throughput to spontaneously consist of over forty percent pornography. [[EldritchAbomination Slaanesh]] has nothing to do with it.
* In ''Fanfic/InFlight'', Shirou was under the impression the Internet was nothing else, much to [[PlayfulHacker Matsu's]] ire. She then proceeded to accidentally prove him right when she used a wide and extremely... [[RuleThirtyFour inventive]] collection of porn as part of his computer training.

* Any and all ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fan fictions or artworks that involve the ponies discovering the internet is ''guaranteed'' to have them discover the veritable buttload of porn of them that exists and [[OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs react with utter shock and horror]].
* A scene from a ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' fanfiction titled [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1240346/1/Operation-MOVIES "Operation: M.O.V.I.E.S."]] involves Sector V hacking into a computer, attempting to find out what the adults are "hiding from them". Unfortunately, the first thing Sector V comes across when they successfully hack the computer is a porn website, and they all react with pure horror (expect for Kuki, as her teammates were wise enough to immediately shield her eyes).
* Due to being a Jedi her whole life, when Shaak-Ti enters a relationship with Ranma in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11577216/11/A-Horse-For-the-Force A Horse for the Force]]'', she looks to the hypernet[[note]] The ''Star Wars'' equivalent of the internet [[/note]] to understand how their courtship should go. She's amazed and appalled by the sheer amount of human/togrutan porn she finds.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11889780/9/Niflheim-Academy Niflheim Academy]]'' mentions in passing the time Dudley's computer crashed due to the then ''ten-year-old'' downloading too much porn.
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10346988 Hardcore Entertainment presents "Seven Does Voyager"]]''. When a sex scene happens on ''Voyager'', Harry Kim downloads the camera images onto the [=InterstellerNet=] so every alien in light years is too busy jerking off to attack them. Seven of Nine does the same, hoping that all that jerking off will [[SelfAbuse stunt their growth]].
* in ''Fanfic/DistortionsSymphogear'', Qiao Cai mentions that there has been a lot of artwork of the Adaptors on the internet after their identities were leaked. When Shirabe shows interest, Tsubasa and Maria quickly warn the others that they will wind likely end up stumbling across a lot of porn of themselves if they try to search.
* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'':
** In “The Cameo,” Penny and her friend read and make fun of smut fanfiction featuring the former TV star and her dog.
** In “The Autobiography,” Mittens inadvertently opens a porn website on Penny’s desktop computer. It immediately begins littering the screen with pop-ups and downloading a likely malicious file. Penny’s mom also may or may not be looking at porn on her personal laptop.

* A somewhat example with ''Film/LittleChildren'', 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]].]]
** In the book, it goes even further: [[spoiler:her husband ends up skipping town to become a full-time groupie for "Slutty Kay" (the internet porn icon he obsesses over), which presumably is similar to the way that Deadheads followed the Grateful Dead around the country.]]
* In ''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica'', slavery is still legal, and online slave trading auctions have pumped millions into the economy... and pornography is ''still'' the top-selling item on the 'net.

* The [[TheMovie film adaptation]] of ''Film/CirqueDuFreakTheVampiresAssistant'' used this as a joke. After Darren is transformed and [[spoiler: nearly kills his little sister for blood]], he returns to his room where he finds Mr. Crepsley sitting in the corner flipping through a magazine, and Crepsley casually comments "Interesting... I thought they had this on the Internet now."
* ''Film/{{Steel}}'': How is the villain going to sell his weapons?
-->The internet?
-->Damn right. We could pick up all kinds of good crap. Not just porno.
* In ''Film/TheInnkeepers'', when Claire goes through Luke's internet history to find his paranormal site, she finds that he had been using the work computer to surf for porn.
* In ''Film/AmericanReunion'', Michelle's attempt to type in the first four letters of "amazon.com" reveals that her husband Jim had used the computer to visit "amazingcollegesluts.com".
* Referenced in ''Film/MySuperExGirlfriend'', in a scene where Matt doesn't recognize Professor Bedlam. Annoyed, the villain asks, "Don't you watch TV? Read the newspaper? Use the Internet for anything other than porn?"
* In ''{{Film/Fireproof}}'', Kirk Cameron's character Caleb Holt becomes so addicted to internet porn that when he takes on The Love Dare to get back his wife, one of the things he does is take his computer outside and trash it with a baseball bat.

* In ''Film/ExMachina'', Caleb's taste in internet porn surprisingly becomes plot relevant. At one point he asks Nathan whether he used this data to [[spoiler:design Ava to match his preference. Nathan confirms this]].

* ''Literature/AmericaTheBook'' referred to the Internet as a source of communication, information, and "a staggering array of human sexual fetish".
* In ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'', 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, ''Franchise/StarTrek''-like holodecks "will be society's last invention."
* Hivemind from ''Literature/TheOverlordProtocol'' alludes 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."

* One of the jokes in Creator/AlFranken's ''The Truth (With Jokes)'' asserts that former U.S. Representative Tom [=DeLay=] believes this.

* The world of 2033 in ''Literature/{{MARZENA}}'' has the HoloLens and the Mind Merging Bremen Chip which, according to the narrator, were invented for the sole purpose of freeing humans' sexuality and creating brain supernovae.
* ''Literature/AngelsFlight'': Detective Harry Bosch's investigation leads him to a dominatrix's fetish site. He further discovers that the dominatrix's web site has been hacked and hijacked to lead to a far darker example of this trope: a child pornography ring.
* An impressively early prediction of this trope occurs in the 1946 Creator/MurrayLeinster short story "A Logic Named Joe."
* In ''Literature/IntoTheLookingGlass'' humans make contact with an alien species called the Adar. One of the Adar describes their data net as "announcements of tcheer, and much announcements of herbal remedies to prevent loss of youngness." Tcheer is the age when the Adar reach sexual maturity so basically the cultural equivalent of "barely legal teens" pornography.

* This trope is actually the premise of the ''Literature/UnwovenLiteraryUniverse''. From ''Beginnings'' onward, each of the main protagonists have to fight an onslaught of digital humanoid beings heavily implied to be data from porn sites. Though the influence from this starts to die off by ''Legacy'' and fades entirely by the time the spinoff ''Monarch One'' happens.

* Simon and River’s father doesn’t want a Cortex extension in the house because he thinks this on ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' but Simon’s mom already got the extension so he loses the fight.

* In ''Series/QueerAsFolk'' Ted was frequently shown, and eventually got fired for, browsing porn sites while at work. Immediately prior to him getting fired it was shown that several of his co-workers were also viewing porn on the internet while they were supposed to be working. Keep in mind Ted was an accountant.

* In one episode of ''Series/HorribleHistories,'' a victorian man starts surfing the internet. He looks up word games, and the very first link he clicks infects his computer with a virus that keeps sending him, much to his distress, popups of porn sites entirely based around [[OldTimeyAnkleTaboo girls with skirts above floor length, no gloves, swimming in the ocean, etc.]] Especially funny if you're aware of the vast ammounts of smut the Victorians produced. In fact, watch the clip once you reach the bottom of the page.

* In ''VideoGame/Persona2: Innocent Sin'', you can occasionally be asked by a demon, in your contacts, what the Internet is for. OBVIOUSLY, one of the options, no matter what character is being asked, is to say that it's for porn. It's always funny.
* A lot of the porn on the extranet in ''Franchise/MassEffect'' involves [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe asari]]. Some of it also involves hanar (who have tentacles).
** Between ''2'' and ''3'', Cerberus attempted to remotely shut EDI down. She responded by flooding their computers with '''seven zettabytes''' of porn (most of it was Joker's[[note]]Unless that was a joke...[[/note]]). For comparison, the ''sum of all human knowledge'' around 2011 was estimated to be a quarter of a zettabyte of data.
* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles'', heroine Claire is searching for a computer in a wrecked prison. She asks prisoner Steve if there's one to be found; he responds that he knows of three - "The guards mainly use them for games. Oh, and porn."
* In ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}}'', one of Claude's battle quotes states that she "accidentally" downloaded porn from the enemy's network. [[LovableSexManiac Not that she seems to mind]]...

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel III'', Randy is disappointed by the Erebonian Empire's orbal network. It's so boring - if he were in Crossbell, he "could bring up some swimsuit babes just like that."
* Played with in ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun''. One of the early missions is to destroy generators powering up the camera in Homer's workplace. He says he's paranoid about sexy women on the internet wanting to look at ''him,'' rather than the other way around.

* In ''WebAnimation/RetardedAnimalBabies'', this is the first thing on [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Marty McFly's]] mind when the Doc shows him a time machine he constructed from a Power Book G4.

* A 1998 strip of ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'' starts with a wordy description of search engines, [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/19981014.html then shows]] Richard typing in F-R-E-E P-O-R-N.

* Steve from ''Webcomic/KhaosKomix'' explores his sexual orientation with the help "of [his] friend, Mr. Internet". And after Alex meets Tom, he is soon on the internet, looking for stuff on tattooed guys...
* Brought up in ''Webcomic/AnsemRetort'' [[CrossesTheLineTwice while trying to convince Jesus to save the pornography of the future]]. Complete with reference to ''Theatre/AvenueQ''.
* Gabe and mostly Tycho in ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' occasionally make reference to the bizarre and specific pornography they get online. One word: Ostriches.
* In ''Webcomic/FriendlyHostility'', while looking through the home computer of their boss, Derringer and Fox are absolutely ''shocked'' to see that there isn't a single pornographic image on his computer.
* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob:'' When Slick mocks Bob for running a newsstand in the digital age, Bob starts expounding on the worth of print media. He's interrupted by the arrival of his customer [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Mr. Dirtygeezer,]] requesting his usual "girlie magazines and gumdrops." Slick responds that that's practically what the net is ''for.'' Dirtygeezer disagrees since he can't get gumdrops out of his computer.
* Joel Watson of ''Webcomic/HijinksEnsue'' created [[http://sharksplode.com/the-holodeck-is-for-porn/ a t-shirt]] that says "The [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Holodeck]] Is For Porn."

* Played with in ''Capes & Babes'', where Roy's porn surfing marathon ends with [[http://www.capesnbabes.com/2008/02/25/when-youre-a-werewolf/ a page]] telling him that he's already seen all the porn on the internet.

* A ''WebComic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' strip suggests that, if left uncensored, "smart" systems trained on previous internet searches would always assume the customer's search is going to be for pornography, no matter what they start to say.
* ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'': [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2010/02/22/0140-fallout/ Woo uses YouTube to watch videos of raccoons getting it on]].
* In ''Webcomic/{{Omoriboy}}'', Omori's laptop is usually set to a porn website whenever the screen is shown.

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

* [=OnlyFans=] once had an advertising campaign on Website/{{Facebook}} inviting fitness instructors, cooking show hosts, and other non-pornographic content creators to host their videos on the site. In theory, anyone can make use of OF, and the company has never marketed themselves as a host for adult entertainment. But the reality is that OF and sites like it have a reputation for one specific use, as the snarky comments left on the Facebook ads pointed out. It all came to a head in 2021 when OF announced that they would be banning pornographic content from the platform altogether. Since porn constitutes the vast majority of its business, the backlash was as swift as it was predictable, and within a week of the announcement (the ban hadn't even gone into effect yet), OF changed course and announced that porn performers could stay after all. By contrast, OF's biggest competitor [=JustForFans=] has ''always'' been proud of its status as a porn site and announced that they would happily take any performers ditched by OF.[[note]]And for the record, content creators that ''aren't'' in the business of porn but want to be paid for their work are more likely to use Patreon--where they offer perks in exchange for tiered monthly donations--in conjunction with Youtube and other free streaming sites. Of course, Patreon also has no shortage of visual artists whose output consists mostly of smutty images, a market [=OnlyFans=] never really managed to break into.[[/note]]
* In [[https://textsfromsuperheroes.com/image/189812089962 this]] ''Blog/TextsFromSuperheroes'' exchange, Vision says that he's picked Christmas gifts for his fellow Avengers by accessing their browser histories. Franchise/CaptainAmerica gets a box set of [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} the 1942 World Series]]; the rest get "sex stuff."

* In Website/{{Cracked}}.com's series ''WebVideo/AgentsOfCracked'', there was an entire episode about [[CloudCuckooLander Michael Swaim]] discovering the internet. Upon his first Google Search, he invoked this trope.
-->'''Swaim:''' I typed in ''''porn'''' -- and porn came up! I typed in ''''breakfast'''' -- and porn came up!

* During Creator/NoahAntwiler's commentary for his review of ''[[BruceLeeClone The Clones of Bruce Lee]]'', he notes that the film is not really worth the viewer's time (he notes he cut the film down to the funny bits in his review) and after {{Lampshading}} the possibility that his fans would be "lured by [his] promise of titties", he then points out that there are easier methods of finding Asian porn than locating a bootleg copy of the film.
* ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'': The enthusiastic support for this premise by the entirety of Team 1 bites them in the butt when they need to get their information off someone who a) has a strong belief in the importance of purity of heart, and b) [[spoiler:has been trapped in a book since the days of [=DARPANet=].]]

* Deepdata1's #7 answer in ''WebVideo/TenWordsOfWisdom'' was "The ancient humans needed a place to hide their porn, too."
* ''WebVideo/JonathanPie'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9t-_dEMBoM describes]] mobile internet as filling the air around us with invisible tits and balls

* [[WebVideo/VShojo Projekt Melody]] is a VirtualYoutuber whose ''very existence'' is the result of this trope. Being infected with a "sexy porn virus" back when she was a simple mail-sorting AI. Considering all of this and her "other job", she also unsurprisingly subscribes to this belief, claiming "The internet is amazing!".

* In ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'', a sketch involved a virus ''deleting'' all the porn on the Internet and people's hard drives. Predictably, there were riots in the streets. And world leaders broadcasting that this wasn't funny. "Please, man, give us back our porn."

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Steve tries to do research on fossils, but expects to run into porn in the process.
-->'''Steve:''' "Tyrannosaurus Rex; real. Babe-osaurus Rex; porn. A symposium on the Pangea theory of the Permian Extin -- WOW, THAT IS SOME NASTY PORN!!!"
* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'':
** In E-Dork, Carl uses his E-Helmet to watch porn constantly. "I think I'm actually done being horny. * Bestiality turns on* Oh wait... no, we're not... no, we are not!"
** Master Shake gets Frylock to search for "super crime, girls in trouble and press release, how to" and returns "sex with animals".
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'', Milo tells his friends how he's been running internet searches trying to find Helga's parents, but keeps getting sidetracked by porn.
* Surprisingly, ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy's'' resident pervert Quagmire was unaware of internet porn until the 2009 episode "Family Goy". After being told about it, he's not seen again until a scene a few days later where he reveals that he's been at home ever since, hasn't slept, and his, er, "primary arm" has swollen to a grotesque degree of muscularity.
* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'':
** In "Cyber Butt", the titular duo pressure Stewart into going on a porn site on the school computer.
** In "Tech Support", the boys wander into a computer tech support office and are mistaken for new employees. Naturally they attempt to use the office computers to look at porn, but a power outage shuts them down before they can actually see any of it.
* From an episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot''...
-->'''Jenny:''' No time, Mom! I'll just download some new upgrades from the Internet!\\
'''Nora:''' XJ-9, don't do that! You'll go blind!
* An early episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' had Boomhauer talking about dang ol' internet:
-->'''Boomhauer:''' Yeah man, I tell ya what, man. That dang ol' internet, man. You just go on there and point and click. Talk about W-W-dot-W-com. An' lotsa nekkid chicks on there, man. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. It's real easy, man.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Braceface}}'', Sharon did a search for ideas on Little Red Riding Hood-costumes and accidentally came across some Little Red Riding Hood–themed porn.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' Grim once misspelled the URL on a website meant to summon an ancient snake god by one letter, resulting in an accidental visit to a site which started making animalistic yowling noises while Grim tried to block the kids from seeing it. The site then crashed the computer.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Shell", Gumball accidentally bursts into Banana Joe's room and sees him watching a video of an orange getting peeled. Considering that Banana Joe is, well, [[AnthropomorphicFood a banana]], it should be [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything pretty obvious what that video was meant to represent]]. The fact that he also has a box of tissues next to him doesn't really help.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Into the Bunker", Mabel makes a joke about Dipper's web history, implying this. Bill's reddit AMA mentions that whatever Dipper was looking at involves "a lot of redheads", further implying that Dipper was specifically looking up girls who resembled his crush Wendy. "You're not over her at all" indeed...
-->'''Soos:''' Yeah, this room is way creepy.
-->'''Mabel:''' Not as creepy as Dipper's internet history! Hey-o!
* In the ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020'' segment "Of Mice and Memes", Pinky seems to believe this. When Brain asks Pinky whether he knows what most humans use the internet for, Pinky replies that he does but [[ThinkOfTheCensors doesn't think he can say it]]. Brain then clarifies that "surprisingly", its primary use ''isn't'' what Pinky was thinking of, but for [[TheInternetIsForCats funny pictures and viral videos of animals]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "Something Ricked This Way Comes" has Jerry walking in on his son Morty watching pornography on his laptop, leading to Morty going on a small rant about how his dad should knock next time he enters.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Oreimo}}'', a mad Kirino confronts her brother Kyousuke about this after finding out that he used her laptop to surf for porn in episode 7; but [[{{Hypocrite}} she gave him the laptop so he could play one of her numerous]] {{eroge}}s, so it's not clear what she's offended about...

* The only time the Internet was used in ''Manga/GirlFriends'' involved a scene where Akko was surfing porn as research on how to have sex [[spoiler:[[LipstickLesbian with Mari]].]]

* Inverted in ''Series/{{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?

-->'''Steve''': No, we're actually have a hand-held computer in our pockets, so advanced you don't even need to [[CalculatorSpelling type "5318008" and turn it upside down]] to make it show you boobies.\\

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10346988 Hardcore Entertainment presents "Seven Does Voyager"]]''. When CoitusEnsues on ''Voyager'', Harry Kim downloads the camera images onto the [=InterstellerNet=] so every alien in light years is too busy jerking off to attack them. Seven of Nine does the same, hoping that all that jerking off will [[SelfAbuse stunt their growth]].

Let's face it. The Internet — and a lot of people's computers — are full of UsefulNotes/{{Pornography}}. Sometimes deliberately, or maybe [[BlatantLies you've just got a bug on your computer that fills it with filth; it's]] ''[[BlatantLies totally]]'' [[BlatantLies your little brother's fault for clicking an unsafe link]]. 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. Porn constitutes about 30% of all internet traffic, according to [[http://www.extremetech.com/computing/123929-just-how-big-are-porn-sites one study.]] Some even suggest [[http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-27/how-to-find-porn-on-the-internet#r=read a porn search engine!]] (making the image to the right even funnier...).

* Surprisingly, ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy's'' resident pervert Quagmire was unaware of internet porn until the 2009 episode "Family Goy". After being told about it, he's not seen again until a scene a few days later where he reveals that he's been at home ever since, hasn't slept, and his, er, "[[ADateWithRosiePalms primary arm]]" has swollen to a grotesque degree of muscularity.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Shell", Gumball accidentally bursts into Banana Joe's room and sees him watching a video of an orange getting peeled. Considering that Banana Joe is, well, [[AnthropomorphicFood a banana]], it should be [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything pretty obvious what that video was meant to represent]]. The fact that he also has [[ADateWithRosiePalms a box of tissues next to him]] doesn't really help.

Partly a result of TheRuleOfFirstAdopters. Ubiquitous enough to result in RuleThirtyFour. For some, the Internet has become such a convenient PornStash that it is [[DoubleEntendre single-handedly]] [[TropeBreaker breaking]] the trope PoorMansPorn, and increasing the mainstream acceptability of "adult entertainment".

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

Seriously, what are you doing on ''this'' website? (Probably AddictionDisplacement.) Contrast TheInternetIsForCats for the ''literal'' kind of pussy that you're likely to find online (unless you're looking for stuff about [[{{Yiff}} cat mating]]).

* [[WebVideo/VShojo Projekt Melody]] is a VirtualYoutuber whose ''very existence'' is the result of this trope. Being infected with a "sexy porn virus" back when she was a simple mail-sorting AI. Considering all of this and her "[[CamWhore other job]]", she also unsurprisingly subscribes to this belief, claiming "The internet is amazing!".

--->'''Jason:''' Miss October sure has [[BuxomIsBetter big hooters]].\\

* At least one story on Website/NotAlwaysRight highlights a person who steadfastly believes that the Internet contains ''only'' [[http://notalwaysright.com/also-check-out-the-endless-what-people-think-i-do-charts/17035 porn and pedophiles]]... [[CriticalResearchFailure and nothing else]].

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation has [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-335 SCP-335,]] which is the entire contents of the internet stored on 150 3.5″ floppy disks. Disks 1–12 contain nothing but porn. To give some perspective, Wikipedia only takes up one disk. (Wikipedia is mostly text, text is much smaller than images or video.)

* ''LightNovel/WelcomeToTheNHK'':
** At one point Satou secludes himself from the outside world (even more) to fill his hard drive with porn. When he runs out of disk space, he starts deleting other stuff. Like his operating system files. ''Whoops''.
** In the manga, his porn obsession eventually leads him to build a massive customized rig just for pornography, complete with cavernous hard-drive, several monitors, high-fidelity headphones and a leather massage chair. ''In his parents' spare bedroom''. Needless to say, [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown it does not end well]].

In fact, many of the internet's innovations — particularly in e-commerce, encryption, and streaming video — originated with porn and the desire to consume it safely and efficiently. Even Website/{{YouTube}} was founded partly in response to Music/JanetJackson's WardrobeMalfunction at the 2004 Super Bowl,[[note]]Ironically, the site doesn't allow most cases of nudity or intercourse, though fetish porn that doesn't include either sneaks in all the time[[/note]] and Google Images was developed in response to the tidal wave of search queries for pictures of Creator/JenniferLopez's [[AbsoluteCleavage infamous green dress]] from the 2000 Grammys. Never undervalue the human desire to see scandalized naked flesh.

* Wiki/ThisVeryWiki's FamilyFriendly policy notes that "Readers who are wondering what a naked person might look like can just check out the rest of the Internet."

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' had an episode where everyone's Internet went down, plunging the nation into chaos (and UpToEleven chaos at that, as conditions literally got [[Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath as desperate as the 1930s Dust Bowl]], and [[DeliberatelyMonochrome everything shifted to black and white]]). In the men's case (particularly Randy Marsh), the other problems were compounded by porn withdrawal (After internet porn, they couldn't go back to ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}''). One group created an "Internet Porn Simulator" by lowering hastily drawn stick figure pictures into an empty monitor casing. Further expanded on in TheMovie, when Stan innocently (no, really) asks Kyle to look up "clitoris", without knowing it's a sex organ, and they get 8 billion hits. Including one of Cartman's mom, of course.

* [=OnlyFans=] once had an advertising campaign on Website/{{Facebook}} inviting fitness instructors, cooking show hosts, and other non-pornographic content creators to host their videos on the site. In theory, anyone can make use of OF, and the company has never marketed themselves as a host for adult entertainment. But the reality is that OF and sites like it have a reputation for one specific use, as the snarky comments left on the Facebook ads pointed out. It all came to a head in 2021 when OF announced that they would be banning pornographic content from the platform altogether. Since porn constitutes the vast majority of its business, the backlash was as swift as it was predictable, and within a week of the announcement (the ban hadn't even gone into effect yet), OF changed course and announced that porn performers could stay after all. By contrast, OF's biggest competitor [=JustForFans=] has ''always'' been proud of its status as a porn site and announced that they would happily take any performers ditched by OF.[[note]]And for the record, content creators that ''aren't'' in the business of porn but want to be paid for their work are more likely to use Patreon--where they offer perks in exchange for tiered monthly donations--in conjunction with Youtube and other free streaming sites.[[/note]]