ABSTRACT
The production of black-and-white porn movies flourished in Soho, London, from the beginning of the 1960s, and was to find a more permissive environment of potential consumers in Denmark, which subsequently became a leading producer of porn material, together with Sweden. DVDs substituted Video Cassette Recording technology during the 1990s, but the accessibility of porn material did not change significantly, until the World Wide Web took over. Although it is still possible to buy porn DVDs and magazines, the internet enables the viewing of porn material online, just by connecting computers, tablets, and mobile phones to one of the thousands of free porn websites, such as xvideos, pornhub, or youporn. This short survey of the different phases in the production, the distribution, and the accessibility of porn material aims to underline how porn and technology have been deeply entwined with each other since the very start. Hence, porn must be considered a technological product.
