What Were The Biggest Trends For Adult Sites In 2024?

• 04 Dec, 2024
• Adult Site Broker

December is finally here, and as the owner of an adult website, you may be starting to plan for the first quarter of 2025, looking for new content, niches, and ways to stay relevant within the adult industry. As the market grows, new trends will rise for 2025, offering insight into new technologies, legal issues, and payment options you need to know. To help you, Adult Site Broker has put together the most significant trends of 2024 and what we think will be the most prominent trends for the adult industry in 2025. 

What Were The Biggest Trends For Adult Sites For 2024? 

AI Porn and Girlfriends 

AI has been popular in the adult industry since the first AI porn game came out. However, as AI took over multiple industries with the rise of ChatGPT and new sophisticated models allowing for individuals and brands alike to create art, films, and filters, 2024 not only offered new games with better graphics and the ability to grow the world around based on your prompts and choices. It also saw the rise of porn image and video generators where users can create their scenarios and models based on prompts, but it also offered a new form of intimacy in the rise of AI girlfriend sites. Allowing users to date, flirt, sext, and have deep conversations with human-like responses from the AI chatbot 

The Rise of Fan Sites 

The content creator economy boomed in 2024, with OnlyFans reporting a projected gross revenue of $6.3 billion in 2024. Other sites like Fanvue, Fansly, Patreon, and Sunroom have also become popular for adult content creators. Fan sites are famous for allowing individuals from all walks of life to create and monetize adult content to a broad user base. As an adult website owner, they have also become popular options to buy as they allow for monthly income generation through the commission they earn from every creator of their sites’ payouts. 

Ethical/Female Focused Porn 

2024 has shown that women enjoy porn just as much as men, with porn sites like MakeLoveNotPorn, Bellesa, and Lust Cinema, offering a wide range of porn content that focuses on ethics, real-life scenarios, and female pleasure. As an adult website owner, this shows that there is a new audience you should be looking to cater to in 2025. 

VR Porn 

Watching is no longer the only option for many porn watchers; they want to be a part of the action, and VR porn has allowed them to do so. 2024 has seen a rise in the popularity of people buying and playing VR porn games that will enable you to enter a new reality. And purchasing VR porn, which offers first-person POV so your favorite porn star can pleasure you.  

Sex Apps For Hookups 

Adult dating has always been popular, and in 2024, it became more available as an in-app smartphone option. Hook-up apps like Feeld, Pure, and AdultFriendFinder have become popular as people seek new ways to meet people who match their interests, fetishes, and dating styles. 

Crypto And Privacy

As many adult sites, porn stars, and content creators have faced backlash from banks and payment processors, with many stating that PayPal, Mastercard, and Visa have actively stopped or blocked payments to their bank accounts or shut them down, the adult industry has sought new payment methods. Because of this, there has been a rise in adult sites using crypto as a payment method, allowing for more secure payments and protecting the privacy of users and creators alike.  

Age Verification

Unless you have been under a rock, you know that adult sites have also been rocked by the new trends surrounding age verification and protecting minors from accessing adult content. 2024 saw the widespread creation of strict legislation across the USA, EU, and Australia making age verification more stringent for adult sites, including demanding they use AI-facial recognition or require users to show ID when signing in or accessing adult sites. This has led to debates about the right to privacy worldwide and caused popular sites like Pronhub to stop allowing users of certain US states to access their content.  

What Could We See For 2025?  

So, what do we think will be the latest trends in 2025? At Adult Site Broker, we have broken down some of our thoughts on what will be trending in the industry. 

First, the use of AI and VR will remain popular, with Bluetooth capabilities allowing VR headsets and sex toys to combine with porn to allow for the ultimate, interactive experience. We are already seeing it with the popularity of the sex toy brand Lovense and its product’s capabilities to connect with music apps and erotic audio collections. 

Second, the rise of VR has led the way for AR (augmented reality), allowing people to fully immerse themselves within their favorite porn, allowing for more immersive and interactive porn in the future. People can create avatars of themselves to meet and play and have sex with others. 

Next, we foresee the popularity of sex robots. As AI, VR, and sex tech combine, these robotic figures allow for new ways to enjoy and create intimacy with their ability to converse, remember their birthdays, and focus on their pleasure during sex. 

Personalization will be a huge hit. In the next year, AI will be able to track users’ interests, allowing adult sites to create personalized search suggestions and home pages for each user. This will allow adult sites to create targeted content and drive up traffic and user engagement to their websites. 

In addition, from a financial perspective, crypto and blockchain will continue to grow, allowing for safer transitions and more privacy for fans and content creators regarding the payment and sharing of adult content. 

On the legal side, we will see the continuation of age verification laws but also new legislation coming into effect to curb the use of AI for certain types of porn, including deepfakes, revenge porn, and other illegal activities.  

Conclusion 

2024 has been a wild ride for the adult industry, from the rise of AI and ethical porn showcasing new ways to enjoy pleasure and opening the opportunities to tap into a new audience for adult site owners to the increase in conservative legislation impacting the operations of adult sites in many states. 

2025 is coming, and uncertainty and excitement for the adult industry come with it. As new technologies allow us to create niche content for user engagement, we see new protections against AI-deep fake porn and age verification laws. 

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