Niche in a Haystack

In the early days of pornography on the Net it was all "big boobs," "horny young co-eds" and other broad (forgive the pun) categories. But now sites are dedicated to every imaginable (or unimaginable) niche and fetish.

An article on CNN.com posted today describes "a booming online field, fueled by the relatively low costs of setting up shop, fickle consumers in constant search of new thrills and the promise of quick profits."

Want Goth girls? GothicSluts.com. Dig gals with glasses? Pop in the Spec's Appeal video series from Kickasspictures.com. Got a thing for diehard Insane Clown Posse fans willing to take their tops off? Then, by golly, you simply must race over to Juggalettesgonewicked.com. Babes against Bush? You're not alone with Babesagainstbush.com. [None of these are safe for work.]

"It's an enormous business ... There's a lot of money to be made," said Sean Kaldor, an analyst with Nielsen/NetRatings, to CNN. Nielsen/NetRatings estimated that 34 million visited porn sites in August -- about one in four Internet users in the good ol' US of A.

The article reads, "All that browsing has caused the number of pornography Web pages to soar during the past six years, with over 1.3 million sites serving up about 260 million pages of erotic content, according to a study released in September by the Seattle, Washington-based Web-filtering company N2H2."