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What's 'gooning' and why are people getting lost in this strange new porn world?
Welcome to the Gooniverse. Plus, more generational and cultural shocks that are happening now.
Gooning
Addiction
Pornhub, XVideos, XNXX, and OnlyFans. The United States’ top four porn sites, a kind of Mount Rushmore of virtual smut, attract some 2.3 billion American visits per month. Users typically stay for ten minutes, perusing eight or nine different pages in that time. It’s a crude approximation, but let’s …
Back in 2020, deepfake expert Henry Ajder identified a bot on the messaging app Telegram that “undressed” photos and generated over 100,000 explicit images—some of which were of minors. This, of course, raised serious concerns about the dark side of AI. Things haven’t gotten much better. Videos by …
In 2003, a new online reality show aimed to unearth Canada’s next top porn star by herding ten wannabe adult performers into a Big Brother-style house complete with its own camera crew and directors. The show was called Pornstar Academie and photographer Naomi Harris was sent on an assignment to …
You could be 16 or 60, but everyone loves hearing about sex. It can be juicy, joyful, funny, bizarre, usually all-round fascinating, and it’s even better when the subject matter is the kind of thing most people are too scared to say out loud. (Cowards.) Thankfully, VICE has never held back when it …
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