What happened to porn?!

Gen Z and even Millennials may not know what I'm talking about.  Anyone older does.  Porn used to be VERY different.  I don't even mean the technology available, or new avenue to watch/distribute, or the self-made revolution that are all different and new to that industry today.

I'm talking about content.  Vibe, if you will.  Yes, older porn (we're talking 70's, 80's, 90's here) looked old.  The video wasn't as clear, the people weren't really groomed, and the settings were definitely more old school.  Beyond all of that, there was always someone present.  Joy.  People enjoyed having sex.  And this is what people wanted to purchase and watch - other people enjoying having sex.

Now, joy seems to be not at the bottom of the list but not even on it.  Porn has trended downward over the last 30 years into a pit of deviance, fetish, violations, isolated body parts, and many scenes scripted and performed at worst to show rape or snuff - and at best - to show a heaping pile of meh.

Just how in the 70's and 80's models starting having to get skinnier and skinner to meet the public demand for consumption - porn has somehow needed to become darker, more specific, and addictive in a very unhealthy way.  There are now many people that perhaps began with a curiosity of XYZ, that now have obsessions with fetishes that prevent them from experiencing pleasure any other way.  There are sex addicts, porn addicts, video game players that only know sex through these black-tinted websites with algorithms built to lead you deeper and deeper into the pit of needy pain.

I could go on and on about the amateur circuit, only fans sites, and underage....I'll call it... 'participation' - but without unpacking all of those areas - the common theme remains.  Porn today doesn't have room for pleasure, and that no doubt is impacted everyone participating.