Pregnancy Porn Is a Growing Niche (SFWeekly)
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We explore the genre's underbelly by speaking with a pregnant sex worker who continues her labor of love even while expecting.
The old internet maxim of Rule 34 flatly states, “If it exists, there is porn of it.” Since pregnant women exist, there is plenty of porn featuring their fruitful figures. We bumped into a pregnant Bay Area sex worker who’s currently escorting and shooting pregnancy-porn scenes that have not yet been released. She explained how this is fertile ground for a kinky mother-to-be.
The pregnancy fetish may be relatively obscure by mainstream standards, but it has a passionate niche following. The online web forum Preggophilia, a clearinghouse of pictures and videos of pregnant women — “nude or otherwise” — has as many as 700 users cruising at any given moment.
We found an interesting disconnect among pregnancy-porn searches — namely, that these viewers prefer the raw, amateur stuff. On the massively popular PornHub, the most-visited porn site on the web despite its unapologetic piracy, “pregnant” does not even crack the top 100 most popular search terms.
But “pregnant” is the second most-searched term on the streaming-and-cam site ManyVids, which includes more amateur and self-produced content.
Bay Area sex worker and activist Maxine Holloway, perhaps best-known for spearheading the “Ask First” consent sticker campaign at the Folsom Street Fair, is escorting while pregnant and has been shooting pregnancy porn videos that will be released next year.
“They are continually on the top searched and purchased items,” she says of the genre.
Self-reported statistics from porn sites show that pregnancy fetish searches have gone up 18 percent in the last three years. After “pregnant,” the most popular search terms are “get me pregnant,” “pregnant creampie,” and “pregnant wife.”
We can play armchair psychologist and guess the Freudian motivations behind these searches, but Holloway prefers the simple explanation of the “pregnant glow.”
“There’s a quote that I like by cheesy erotica novelist Alice Clayton about pregnant women: ‘Her skin glowed, her hair was luxurious, her eyes sparkled, and her tits were even more fantastic.’
“I’m definitely feeling all of that, and thoroughly enjoying all of my new hormone rushes and body changes that pregnancy brings. I notice that I am taking even more pleasure than usual in showing off my body and curves.
“Having my boobs get bigger every month has been a fun treat,” she adds.
And yes, pregnancy sex work does pay better. Unlike the related fantasies involving mommies and incest, there is no way you can fake a pregnancy in this context. So a pregnant sex worker is a rare find.