XXX porno is an umbrella term for sexually explicit material and websites on the web. Its roots lie in the X certificate system for adult movies.
Historically, films with highly graphic content were typically rated X – an indication that anyone under the legal age couldn’t view them. But in the 1970s, as pornography gained momentum, many producers began using XXX (and eventually triple X’s) to designate their films as particularly graphic in an effort to emphasize their adult nature.
There are various ways to distinguish X-rated films from R rated ones, but the most basic distinction is that X-rated movies contain some level of nudity and sex but don’t feature full frontal nudity, gore or other sexual violence.
But the real issue lies in debating how much online pornography is actually “porn”. According to recent statistics, searches for sexually explicit material on the web have only slightly declined since the early 1990s – likely due to shifting lifestyles such as home-buying and job searching online.
One thing is certain: anti-porn crusaders are still out there trying to shut down the industry. Led by religiously-based think tanks and lobbies with one goal in mind: shutting down online porn. NCOSE has rebranded themselves as NCOSE to deceive journalists unfamiliar with their agenda, while engaging in various scandals to generate headlines and editorials that become lobbying materials for politicians and judges to reference.