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September 27, 2005

Sex and the single podcatcher

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Posted by Matt May

If there's anything on the Web that's hotter than podcasting, it's sex. In fact, it's pretty safe to assume that if it's a new technology, one of its first applications will be pornography. Since Gutenberg's press, that's become axiomatic.

We talk all the time about the Adam Currys of the podcasting world, but almost never do we hear about the Violet Blues. Violet has been making Open Source Sex, an erotica and sex-ed podcast, since the beginning of the year. And a funny thing happened when the iTunes Music Store launched: Open Source Sex debuted in the top 10 most-subscribed podcasts. Months later, it continues to make frequent appearances on the list.

More recently, with the launch of Loomia, yet another podcast directory service (from now on abbreviated as YAPDS), there was more anecdotal evidence of the underground demand for podcasting in the prurient interest. Each time I've browsed their most popular searches since their launch, "sex" and variants thereof have proudly, and in big type, proclaimed their primacy among searchers. The demand for erotica on the go is bigger than anyone's willing to admit, and that underscores one of our greatest social mores: we won't talk openly with even our closest friends about it, and yet, it's one of the biggest things going.

But just who is listening? I will openly admit to listening to one or two shows that may subject me to some people's scorn (for example, I am known to ride the Bluegrass Express with surprising regularity). Each time I find out about a sex-oriented podcast, though, I'm wondering more and more when I see those white headphones on the bus: just what are they listening to?

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