Selection and Cataloging of Adult Pornography Web Sites for Academic Libraries

Characterizing Web Pornography Consumption from Passive Measurements

“…These information are extracted from the user-agent of the original HTTP request at the time of the capture, using the Universal Device Detection library. 6 We made these data available to the community in anonymized form to guarantee reproducibility of our results and further investigations [1]. In the remainder of the paper, we only take into account user actions, to which we simply refer with the term visited webpages.…”

“…1 As of October 17 th , 2018 www.alexa.com/topsites to its website. 2 The importance of Internet pornography as a prevalent component of popular culture and the need of its study has been recognized for a long time [6].…”

“…In 2017, the most used pornographic platform in the world (Pornhub, according to Alexa ranking) 1 , claims 80 million daily accesses to its website. 2 The importance of Internet pornography as a prevalent component of popular culture and the need of its study has been recognized for a long time [6].…”

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“…In these works, Maines' story is rarely a significant part of the framing of the argument. Yet every time the story is repeated, it becomes more established as scholarly fact, and thus harder to dislodge (for example, Dilevko & Gottlieb, 2004;Marcus, 2011;Parisi, 2013).…”

Objects of Human Desire: The Organization of Pornographic Videos on Free Websites

“…Complicating this matter further is the fact that individuals may examine porn for "valid" research purposes, such as those falling within the realms of gender studies, human sexuality, popular culture, cinematography, etc. (Creel 2013;Heller and Storms 2012;Farrelly 2008;Dilevko and Gottlieb 2004;Levine 2002). While pornography has become a more visible topic in recent years among a number of disciplines, LIS research into topics concerning pornography and pornographic content are uncommon.…”