started with famous HBO’s series Sex and the City (1998-2004) which normalized casual sex and popularized sex toys and vibrators for an entire generation of women. According to Report Buyer, by 2024 the global sexual wellness market (including above mentioned sex toys) is projected to grow to $39bn. Link: Sexual Wellness Market – Global Outlook and Forecast 2020-2025

Sex and the City

We can see the highest demand in countries like the US, China, the UK, Japan, and Germany, that comes hand by hand with increase in online sales (particularly, via Amazon). On the surface it looks like women have become more liberated and empowered but many authors and scientists insist it contributes to sexism.

Young women who engaging in sexual relations in 2020 are expected to be savvy in a variety of sexual behaviors and practices, hold their partner’s orgasm in higher regard than their own and even enhance their desirability to men by faking they can reach it quickly and efficiently. Global hit that popularized BDSM Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) is another example of the “mainstreaming” of sex, in other words, on how sexual imageries previously considered obscene became norm in within media culture.

In her book “Mainstreaming Sex: The Sexualisation of Western Culture” (2009) Prof of Cultural studies in Middlesex University Feona Attwood analyzes this curious Western phenomena. Read more about Feona and her research. 

According to BBC, the couples who don’t live together can now meet up for sex after changes to the coronavirus restrictions in England – but casual sex is still banned. Read more.

The 24-year-old adopted daughter of legendary movie director Steven Spielberg and his wife Kathleen Spielberg (known professionally as Kate Capshaw) recently started self-producing solo porn videos and wants to become a stripper once she obtains her Tennessee sex worker license.
In her interview with The Sun, Mikaela insists her parents “expected” her porn career, they are “not embarrassed” and “relieved”.

Mikaela Spielberg

“My body, my life, my income, my choice”
Mikaela says she wants to celebrate her body and feels empowered by her career choice, describing her big natural boobs as “moneymaker”. Mikaela’s boyfriend, 50-year-old professional darts player Chuck Pankow is also supporting her even though their relationship is not very smooth, on February 29, 2020, Mikaela was arrested for alleged domestic violence after her birthday party

Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw have 7 children together: two of them from their previous marriages and two adopted.

An American pornographic actress and former Hollywood actress Maitland Ward in her interview to the Daily Beast tells that the porn industry might be uniquely prepared to maintain movie production during Coronavirus pandemic:
“The adult industry is inherently good at taking precautions and relying on health screening — of course, it’s primarily STD screenings demanded by law every 14 days, but nevertheless, we deal with things like cutting the risk of potential outbreaks or infections as a way of life, so, as an industry, we may be better equipped to take swift action and alert performers of outbreaks.”

Australian pornstar and movie director Angela White, aka the Meryl Streep of Porn (she won the porn Oscar for Female Performer of the Year three times in a row), is concerned about fellow pornactors losing their only source of income.
“While we are monitoring public health departments, we do not believe that a mandatory production hold is warranted at this time. We are wary of cutting off performers’ ability to generate income by prematurely restricting their ability to work while the risk is low—especially with the potential for a longer and larger business shutdown looming… We are asking that performers and producers who continue to shoot be incredibly vigilant and take common-sense precautions, including educating performers and crew about prevention, limiting the size of sets, and discontinuing air travel whenever possible.”

Ah, the infamous “Do women?..” type of question but the answer is YES. Who doesn’t? Women are people and people like porn 🙂 A lot of the hardcore porn men and women watch is the same but there are some nuances:

1. 1. Women like movies with a story to get the imagination going
2. 2. Women tend to look for pornstars that resemble them in some way so they can relate
3. 3. Women tend to watch porn with partners instead of watching it alone
4. 4. Approximately 1/4 of all online porn traffic are women (For example, 24% of people who visit Pornhub monthly are female visitors)
5. 5. Studies have found that one in three women watch porn every week.
6. 6. Statistics show that women watch a lot of lesbian sex but they don’t mind searching for “rough sex”, “gangbang”, “double penetration”, “big black cock” etc
7. 7. Women like erotic fiction aka fuckfiction (written sex scenes). No surprises here, women tend to be less visually stimulated than men.
8. 8. Up to 13% of women report watching gay porn. Why? They don’t wanna see other naked chicks, and solo male movies made specifically for female viewers are not very common.

1. According to HuffingtonPost adult sites receive more regular visitors than Netflix, Amazon, & Twitter combined each month. At least 30% of all data transferred across the internet is porn-related and some porn sites outrank eBay. Yep, the old saying “Internet is for porn” is not an exaggeration.

2. According to Pornhub Analytics, the “teen” porn category has topped porn site searches for the last 6 + years and “lesbian” was the most-searched-for word by PornHub users.

3. According to Yahoo Finance porn – is an estimated $97 billion industry, with about $12 billion of that coming from the U.S. alone (which btw equals Netlflix revenue in the USA).

A global pandemic will force millions of people to self-isolate at home and masturbate even more. One might wonder when you are stuck at home with your wife and kids where you gonna fap? But surprisingly, porn tubes report traffic increase up to 35%. On the other hand, the content producers halt movie production to stop the spread so the paysites will eventually see the customers cancelling.

So how will this pandemic affect the porn industry? Will we switch to homemade porn? Zoom porn? What new porn trends will emerge as a result of COVID-19? From funny sex videos with people fucking while wearing face masks to completely killing Tinder dates – this virus may dramatically change the way we have sex in the 21st century.

Post your opinions (and unpopular opinions) in comments.