5 Surprising Trends In The Online Adult Industry

Since there was a way to share files between computers, among those shared files was porn. These days, the internet is synonymous with pornography, and trends are sure to arise.

While some of these, like teen or amateur content, might be obvious, some unexpected trends have gained mainstream success in the past couple of years. Here are five such trends that’ll surprise you!

5. Quarantine Porn

We’re all familiar with Covid and the quarantine that took place to stifle the pandemic, but you may be surprised that quarantine porn also became a prominent trend on various tube sites.

Content that revolves around quarantine porn often sets up a story during the pandemic - a poor lass needs shelter during the pandemic and ends up at your place where things get steamy, or you get bored at home and end up sleeping with your step-sister (more on that later!).

Since everyone was stuck at home and porn was many people’s escape of choice, these situations were common fantasies, and quarantine porn quickly burst into the mainstream.

4. VR Porn

You’ve probably heard of POV porn - you take the role of one of the actors and experience the action in first-person. With the growing affordability and ease of use of VR headsets like the Oculus, it’s only logical they’ll be used to indulge sexual fantasies.

VR porn is usually of the POV genre - you’re thrust directly into the action and experience the steaminess like you’re there. That being said, there’s also VR porn where you’re a secondary character, simply watching the action unfold as a bystander.

Some VR porn doesn’t even feature real people, instead fulfilling fantasies of having your very own anime or CGI partner. Those with VR headsets aren’t the only ones that have these fantasies, and that brings us to…

3. Hentai/CGI Porn

Hentai, literally meaning “pervert” in Japanese, is a porn genre that doesn’t actually feature any real people - it’s all drawings! While this may seem a bit counterintuitive (how could cartoons be more exciting than real people?), hentai has broken into the mainstream due to two things - fantasy and freedom.

While real-life porn is limited by things like morals and the limits of the human body, hentai certainly isn’t - you’ll find hentai in all genres under the sun, and a good part of the available library includes things you simply couldn’t do in a live-action porno, such as cum inflation or making sweet, sweet love to a succubus.

Those that like this kind of complete freedom when it comes to niches but aren’t quite as partisan to 2d girls aren’t out of luck either - there’s lots of porn centered around 3d-animated girls, especially since the launch of Overwatch in 2016, which featured some, at least in the internet’s eyes, extremely bangable characters.

2. Personalized Porn

With the likes of OnlyFans on the rise, tube sites and free general porn seem to be things of the past. If you’re to ask anyone in the industry, they’d likely tell you, with a heavy heart, that simply googling “porn” and clicking the first link is too old-school for most users nowadays.

People flock to OnlyFans and camsites because they get a fully custom experience - an exclusive one that, at least on the surface, is just for their eyes (even if it really isn’t).

OnlyFans certainly isn’t the final frontier - these days, people are so eager to indulge their fan fetishes that they’re buying used thongs and even used workout clothes!

1. Family Porn

Family porn, or more commonly, step-family porn (told you we’d get to it) is by far the most surprising trend taking over the porn industry.

While a few short years ago you might’ve been looked at funny for watching porn about a step-sister stuck in a washing machine or walking in on your mom flicking the bean, these days, it’s not only normalized but among the most popular categories on PornHub.

Visit a tube site of your choice any day of the week, and we guarantee you that among the 10 most popular videos on the front page, at least one is about a step-family member getting down and dirty with the video’s protagonist.

Conclusion

So there you have it - the five most surprising trends in the online adult industry. Even if you knew some or all of these, we still hope this was a fun read and an interesting insight into the adult industry of today, and you can flex your intricate knowledge of porn trends at your next step-family gathering!

Or… maybe just with a couple of friends after a few beers.