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From "hot blonde" to "stepsis": porn titles over time


Using language embeddings to analyze porn's evolution. - dhealy05/semen_and_semantics

I downloaded snapshots of the Pornhub homepage from the Internet Archive, converted the titles to text embeddings, and analyzed the results. If we plot sexually violent terms like "woman being raped", "incest", and "torture porn", we observe much stronger alignment with the 2017-Present cluster: FOSTA-SESTA and sundry efforts by payment processors to limit porn exposure probably helped improve the conditions of the supply side and prevented videos of minors and rape from being uploaded.

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