Pornhub launches free VR channel [NSFW]

The world’s largest adult site just offered free 360-degree porn in virtual reality (VR). Pornhub announced on Wednesday that it has partnered with BaDoink, a VR porn store.

Gizmodo reports that Pornhub’s VR site just went live. Besides the free porn on VR, Pornhub is also giving away 10,000 free Google Cardboard-like devices for people who would sign up. The site offers options on downloading the VR video, an Oculus Rift video player and the Pornhub Android app for Cardboard.

VR videos have the BaDoinkVR label preceding the title. The five-minute videos that Pornhub posted appears to be a hit with viewers this early. The latest posted, titled “Tease Me Timea” already got more than 285,000 views, while “360 Degrees of Seduction” has almost 230,000 hits.

These five-minute clips are just trailers that encourage Pornhub users to subscribe to BaDoinkVR, says Todd Glider, CEO of BaDoinkVR. As the 65^th most visited site on the Internet, Pornhub offers more than 3 million videos and gets more than 60 million visitors daily.

Since Pornhub is one of the largest distribution channels of adult entertainment in the world, “The addition of a VR category, and BaDoinkVR’s award-winning content, will trigger increase consumer uptake and inspire more companies in the space to begin offering virtual reality content. It’s a move that lifts all boats,” Fortune quotes Glider.

Despite porn being viewed by some groups as degrading, as tech firms introduce VR products, adult virtual reality content is forecast to grow to a $1 billion business by 2025, the third-largest sector after video games and NFL-related content.

But a Real Clear Science article in 2012 points out that based on studies, teens wait longer to have sex the more prevalent porn is. Teen pregnancy rates also dropped by more than 40 percent since its peak in the 1990 as the Internet boosted porn availability.

It also cites two more studies in 1986 and 1995 that when males are exposed to violent or nonviolent porn, it produced no aggression towards females. Groups opposed to porn say it objectifies women, is the enemy of the family and contributes to the demise of males.