The site I’m looking at today is called Porn Works, which begs the question: how exactly does porn work? I would have answered differently a decade ago when I started ThePornDude. “Porn works by using pictures to trick the lizard part of your brain,” I’d tell them. “That reptilian complex thinks it’s time to breed and sends chemical signals to your dick, making it hard and extra sensitive, and then offers some visual stimulation while you stroke that thing.” This is how porn has worked since the first caveman carved a sloppy pair of boobies onto a rock inside a cavern somewhere, but the technological marvels we’ve seen over the last year may have turned smut into something else entirely.