The joy of text

For over two decades now I've been claiming that my interest in pornography is academic

It was 1997 that I spent countless hours visiting so-called adult websites at uni claiming I was researching an essay on internet porn.

The particular assignment only got a credit as it was handed in late, after I prioritised writing about sperm donation for the student newspaper Woroni -- who would publish the porn essay the following year.

Anyway, recently I was trying to appear highbrow when a friend shared news that Pornhub had introduced closed captions on their website.

She virtuously claimed that it was more inclusive and that now people with hearing problems could follow the plotlines.

I, somewhat ashamedly, scoffed at this suggestion.

Just now I've observed that this move will see a thousand memes bloom.

As a casual observer of the genre, I immediately recognised Riley Reid when a friend retweeted this gem.

Then, when I thought maybe I should share it with Reid, I found she'd pinned this tweet.

I anticipate that an unexpected benefit of closed captions might be an improvement in the quality of dialogue in porn.

Which is not a comment on Reid's enthusiastic exclamations.