The Keywords Used To Describe Porn Do Matter
Have you every been frustrated by the fact that good porn is made obscure and hard to find because it gets described with bad keywords? I know I have! Here’s Shira Tarrant talking about the problem in The Atlantic:
It starts with how pornography is keyworded. So, people put in search terms, but those search terms aren’t all that original, really. Because where do we learn the search words that we’re looking for? It’s sort of a chicken-and-egg problem. And so porn gets keyworded in very stereotyped, often sexist, often racist ways, and also just with a narrow-minded view of sexuality.
If you are interested in something like double oral, and you put that into a browser, you’re going to get two women giving one guy a blowjob. If you put “double oral” into a browser you’re not likely to get two men or two people giving a woman oral sex. That’s just not how it’s keyworded. That then feeds into what the industry decides to make more of.
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This week I have thinking / reading about this SEO stuff…
The Major social media AI programs are conducting a Cultural Marxism Revolution
thinking we should use only positive words to increase the SEO
This is so true. I don’t know exactly how to articulate what I do, but I find that I save time and trouble by learning the common porn keywords (the industry has its own “language”), to use in searches, remembering what works and what doesn’t, and by thinking like a censor who is trying to protect children from unwanted search results. Using a number of very specific search terms that narrow what you are searching for, can also help to weed out the unwanted non-porn results. If you’re not getting the results you hoped for, chances are you’re doing something wrong, and try to think more “boolean”. Such as using “operators” like the words “and”, “not” “or”… It also helps to keep in mind the “disambiguation” factor. Even adding the word “porn” to your searches, can be helpful in some cases…
A thousand times this. Sometimes I’m just in the mood for something specific, but unless it’s a standard option, it can be damn hard to find. Or the taggers just aren’t paying attention to that aspect.
I remember when we broke Rule 34. I have two bi girls who call me “Sir”. We were all playing together, with a strap-on. One of the girls clearly decided she was going to “lose” and be on the bottom of the totem pole (call her “M”). The other (“L”) was in the middle of the chain of command.
At some point, “L” was wearing a strap-on.
And then I realized that I’d never seen porn of this. And, after, couldn’t find it on Google – if you look for anything with “strap-on” it’s all pegging. So I had these ideas in my head (“Could I fuck L while L fucks M?”) with no context.
Really really unusual to have sex with no template for it.
Not that it’s all bad to have sex outside the key words!