'For better and worse, technology has arguably democratised access to pornography.' Ahead, the scoop on how porn, porn viewership, and the porn industry have evolved since the '90s.ġ. 'With laptops, high-speed WiFi, cell phones, and newer technology, we can pretty much get porn anywhere, anytime,' Tarrant writes. Literotica is still a thing, of course, but now so is film, which is usually what you think of when you think of 'porn.' And since the video era of porn at the end of the 20th century gave way to the digital era in this one, porn has seen yet another renaissance.
Porn's roots date all the way back to the Renaissance, which, as author Shira Tarrant writes in her book The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs To Know, ushered in an explosion of sexually explicit literature.
