Adult Website Design Theory
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From the introduction of a scholarly study of the proper implementation of adult website user interfaces:
On-line pornography is a legal billion dollar industry. Whether we like it or not, many people spend considerable time browsing and using pornography sites for personal pleasure. While we personally do not condone the moral values of this industry, we believe that it is worth considering pornography browsing as an extreme case of UI design. As we will see, insights gained by examining pornography browsing can be applied to less controversial browsing activities.
In this paper, we consider the activity of recreational browsing of pornography and erotica by a single user for purposes of self-stimulation. While some of our writing is in a humorous tone, the content and analysis is serious. We structure our discussion as a set of design goals for pornographic browsing systems, as well as other more conventional systems that share similar use characteristics.