📝📝: "Extraordinary Thrill" in Pornhub

The website that accompanies all boys through every lonely night, that's right, Pornhub, the world's largest adult video website, released its annual data report at the end of 2021. As a loyal user (huh?), it is also normal to look at the annual report produced by the network!

Pornhub selects the keywords that best represent the year from billions of pageviews

The 2018 keywords of the year are Fortnite, Bowsette

The keywords of the year for 2019 are amateur, aliens

The keyword of the year for 2020 is quarantine

The keyword of the year for 2021 is hentai

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The "perverted" here does not refer to the tram motley, 100 kills or special types of fetishes (such as foot fetish, lingerie fetish, leather fetish, etc.) that often appear in Japanese adult films. Defines adult video content that is mostly animation type . There are thousands of perverted series available on the site, with content from professional modelers, studio recordings, or content created by fans. In fact, in 2021, the term metamorphosis is in the top 10 searches in every country.

Have you also noticed that more than half of these annual keywords are not what we imagined for sex scenes, and the video content will appear as characters in the game (such as stronghold heroes) or characters in animation ( For example, Kubaki), and what's more, the real actors are directly replaced, and new male and female protagonists are created by 3D modeling. In these 3D modeled actors, men often show tall and straight images with abnormally thick sexual organs, while women generally enlarge their chests and buttocks and adjust them to the size that very people would have. This series of keyword searches revealed a trend in which human expectations for pornography are beginning to decouple from the norm (pure one-on-one skimming) .

Clinical psychologist and sex therapist Laurie Betito points out

"Cartoonized audiovisual content is more engaging than the inherently adult film, and can provide stronger visual stimulation in terms of movements, angles, colors, and even facial expressions. Because of these virtual characters, they can further provide more freedom. Perverted series of adult films also tend to add plot lines to the film, and moviegoers are more and more likely to be attracted by this design.

That is to say, people can no longer achieve the original stimulation of watching adult films, so they start to look for stronger visual elements; such as more refined editing, more exciting scenes, and even non-live actors, and look forward to watching movies. The process meets a higher visual experience.

In biology there is a phenomenon called "supernormal stimulus " , which is the winning theory of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. It was originally developed by Australian animal behaviorist Nikolaas Tinbergen and Dutch biologist Lorenz Konrad Lorenz) refers to man-made imitations that stimulate primitive instincts, because their features are distinctive, exaggerated, and more attractive than those in nature. The theory stems from Lorenz's observation in 1950 that birds select brood eggs that are similar to their own species but larger. Ding Bergen followed up with experiments on European herring gulls. The experimenters spotted bright red spots on the mother bird's beak and found that the young birds were more likely to target these red spots to peck. Dingbergen found that experimentally showing that an artificially substituted target attracted biological attention more than a naturally occurring target.

American evolutionary psychologist Dieter. Barrett (Deirdre Barrett) transferred this theory from biology to psychology, and wrote the book "Supernormal Stimuli" (Supernormal Stimuli) . Animals usually encounter extraordinary stimuli in experiments designed by humans, just like Behaviorism , which emerged in the field of psychology in the early twentieth century. . But Barteri found that human society has been creating all kinds of supernormal stimuli for itself.

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A while ago, I was chatting with my tutor after class that the dumplings made by the students were a bit salty. The student's grandma was very enthusiastic and often prepared some hot food for me when I came to the home to teach. I am very grateful for this. The dumplings that I thought were a little salty were made by the students themselves. That day, the student saw that I didn't eat much and drank water frequently, and was surprised to hear that I felt a little salty; because the same plate of dumplings was just right for him, and he even had to dip the whole dumpling with soy sauce before eating. I was surprised to hear the students eat so boldly. However, the students themselves began to have doubts

"Could it be that my sense of taste is actually broken?"

I'm not an expert on taste so I didn't answer the student's question, but we did mention "sensory stimuli" naturally. At that time, I played the Dutch DJ Martin Garrix "In The Name of Love", which was my favorite work in high school, and matched it with the two main colors of the MV, red and blue, to vividly present the fetters of the male and female protagonists. The stimuli also visually grab the listener's attention. As I expected, the students also thought the song was cool.

Then, I switched to "Boxer" by Simon & Garfunkel, a classic piece by American folk duo in the 1960s. At that time, I played a side record of their concert in Central Park, New York City in 1981. Relying on a guitar and the harmony of the two, he brought the audience with the melody one after another. While I was listening and I was so intoxicated that I even tapped the guitar with my hands and feet, my student silently turned off the phone that was half-played, he said.

"I can't listen"

The behavior of students turning off their mobile phones is actually also what I expected. However, I still curiously asked the student what he thought, and he responded without hesitation.

"That sounds so boring."

"It's so boring." After receiving supernormal stimuli, the individual will respond to normal information, because he is used to receiving high-intensity sensory stimuli, or even the superposition of multiple senses. Once the intensity of the information is reduced, the individual will be insensitive or even rejected; however, as Barrett states in the book

"Human society has been creating all kinds of supernormal stimuli for itself."

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In the 1960s, scientists from the behaviorist school conducted a series of animal experiments, trying to prove that "instinct" is the key to truly controlling all behaviors of an individual, rather than consciousness advocated by mainstream psychology. From the classical constraints of Иван Петрович Павлов in the early years to the operational constraints of BF Skinner in modern times, various experiments have repeatedly demonstrated how easily the instincts of animals can be constrained; through a series of experiments, scientists only need to ring a bell. It can make a dog drool or even make a pigeon addicted to pulling a lever . However, when the scientists of the behavioral school wanted to put all these experimental results in the human society to verify, they were stopped in advance due to the norms of many academic ethics.

Whether it's eating dumplings soaked in soy sauce, listening to electronically remixed dance music, or even watching adult films made from 3D models, I don't think these pose a real threat to the individual. What we should really worry about is that, in a society immersed in high-intensity stimulation for a long time, are humans “experimenting” themselves step by step into Pavlov’s dog or Skinner’s pigeon? Not necessarily through the experiments of the behaviorist school, as if the evolution of human society is a self-evident experiment in behavioral conditioning.

References:

Pornhub. (2021). 2021 Year in Review. Retrieved from https://www.pornhub.com/insights/yir-2021

Tinbergen, Niko. (1969). The study of instinct. Oxford, Clarendon P.

Chen Yayun (translator) (2010). The world of kidnapping instinct. Taipei City: Exactly Publishing House. (Deirdre Barrett, 2010)

Hanlin Little Book Boy (2017). Human attachment to cause and effect: From a "superstitious" pigeon. Retrieved from https://www.thenewslens.com/article/81921