Internet Adult Film Database

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Internet Adult Film Database
movie database
Available inEnglish
URLiafd.com
CommercialYes
Launched1995; 29 years ago (1995)
Current statusOnline
Content license
Proprietary

The Internet Adult Film Database (IAFD) is an

pornographic films.[1]

History

The predecessor to IAFD was email- and FTP-accessible database of adult film actresses called Abserver that had been created by Dan Abend in 1993.[2]

IAFD was started by Peter van Aarle, who had collected data on adult movies since 1981, when he began keeping notes on

WWW-based database.[4]

Van Aarle later collaborated on this Web database with Ron Wilhelm, who went by the

SGML programming which he was learning in college. After Wilhelm left the Internet to join the military, the site eventually fell victim to link rot
.

In the fall of 1998, Van Aarle was at a trade show with Jeff Vanzetti, who asked if Van Aarle would be interested in resurrecting the IAFD — this time under its own domain. Vanzetti was looking for a project on which to teach himself on-line database programming using SQL Server, and this seemed like a natural fit, since they were both co-moderators of the newsgroup rec.arts.movies.erotica (RAME), and members of the newsgroup would often lament about the passing of the original Internet Adult Film Database.[3]

The beginning of 1999 brought the first steps towards the relaunch of the IAFD. Initially, search boxes only searched females, and data was restricted to movies released post-1989.

Van Aarle said on this:

In those early days of the IAFD I had made one stipulation: I did not want the movie info on movies before 1989 to be available. The idea behind this was basically that if I would ever decide I wanted to do something commercially with my database it would be a good idea to keep the most valuable parts of it off limits. The data on older titles was clearly the most difficult to compile (and very few people I ever talked to had much info on the older stuff, with a few notable exceptions like

Buttman, who was one of the most popular directors of the time.[3]

Van Aarle died on September 18, 2005, at the age of 42 from a

XRCO Hall of Fame.[8]

On March 1, 2007, the IAFD rolled out information on over 18,000 gay titles and some 39,000 gay performers.[9]

According to Vanzetti, IAFD adds about 500 new titles a month and processes thousands of corrections—corrections that anyone can submit for review.[10] IAFD takes user corrections though forms on the site. The forms are not automated and corrections the site receives are manually updated after having been reviewed by the site's staff. IAFD has a "team of editors" that exercises editorial control over what's posted on the site: "If it's submitted by a fan of the performer and the working editor trusts the submitter, it gets listed. If it's published by someone else, it might get added—we are skeptical of user generated sites since anyone can submit anything to them regardless of accuracy and then it becomes 'fact'. Otherwise, no data."[1] IAFD's policy on releasing real names of adult film performers is: "The exception to this rule is when it comes to real names. We're not interested in linking your real name to your porn name, so if your real name appears on the site, we will remove it (assuming we know what your real name is). However, if your real name appeared on a boxcover due to a mix up in the Art Department, there's little we can do about that."[1]

IAFD gets "paid by sponsors for ad banners", and they "get an affiliate commission from products purchased" via the site.[1]

Review and research

The site has been used as a reference by a variety of outlets that include newspaper articles, books, and research studies.[11] The academic and non-academic writing community has also used the site's information to varying degrees.[12][13] In 2011, the site released a report of compiled data for the year.[14] Included in the statistics released were the number of new titles added that year (9,384) and a ranking of who the busiest performers were. The report also included site data, such as that it was visited by 20.7 million unique viewers and that visitors to the site viewed nearly a quarter of a billion pages. An editor at AVN magazine stated: "[it] underscores the fact that a lot of people not only like porn but want to research information about movies and performers."[14]

Media outlets

On October 1, 2007, an article about the Internet Adult Film Database appeared in the online equivalent of the Brazilian newspaper

Adult Video News (AVN) and XBIZ
.

Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Porn Stars

On February 14, 2013, a study was released by

freelance journalist Jon Millward that sampled the data from 10,000 actors (7,000 women and 3,000 men) from the site to, among other things, compile a profile of the "average porn star" as well as generate some statistics about adult industry actors based on IAFD data.[13][17] The study was written about several days later on Playboy.com.[18] It showed that the typical female porn star was a five-foot-five-inch brunette with B-cup breasts.[17]

The survey was started in 2011, with the researcher's first visit to IAFD.com, with the bulk of Millward's research taking place in the six months prior to the release of the study. For comparative results, the study also cites

U.S. Census statistics as well as information from a Stanford University linguistics professor.[19]

The survey covers roughly a 40-year span of the adult industry and presents statistics on categories such as age, race, state of origin, chosen screen name, biological data (height, weight, hair color, etc.), and the type of

sexual acts
performed over an actor's career.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Internet Adult Film Database – frequently asked questions". IAFD. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  2. ^ "Adult Film Database". Retrieved March 8, 2007.
  3. ^ a b c "remembering peter van aarle". IAFD. Retrieved January 5, 2008.
  4. ^ "ASM File Server". Retrieved March 8, 2007.
  5. ^ "25.2 Heretic's Adult Movie Database". Retrieved January 5, 2008.
  6. Adult Video News
    . September 20, 2005. Retrieved October 25, 2009.
  7. ^ "Van Aarle "Irreplaceable"". Adult Video News. September 22, 2005. Retrieved October 25, 2009.
  8. ^ Peter Warren (February 22, 2011). "XRCO Announces 2011 Nominations". AVN. Retrieved February 26, 2011.
  9. ^ "Internet Adult Film Database Adds Gay". XBIZ. March 5, 2007. Archived from the original on January 5, 2013. Retrieved April 25, 2007.
  10. ^ Bob Preston (March 5, 2007). "IAFD: Looking Ahead". XFanz. Retrieved December 3, 2010.
  11. ISBN 978-0-446-61293-7
    . Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  12. ISBN 9780415523127
    .
  13. ^ a b Millward, John. "Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Porn Stars and Their Careers". jonmillward.com. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
  14. ^ a b "IAFD.com Releases Compiled 2011 Data". Adult Video News. Retrieved December 31, 2013.
  15. ^ "Brazilian Online Newspaper Article". Retrieved October 1, 2007.
  16. ^ "IAFD.com Pays Tribute to Den, Luc Wylder". Adult Video News. Retrieved December 31, 2013.
  17. ^ a b O'Connor, Maureen (June 2017). "Pornhub is the Kinsey Report of our Time". New York: 30–39. In 2013, a data scientist named Jon Millward analyzed 10,000 performer bios on the Internet Adult Film Database and found that the 'typical' female porn star was not the fake-boobed blonde of the stereotypes but a five-foot-five-inch brunette with a B-cup.
  18. ^ Butler, Vanessa. "UP IN SMOKE: PORNSTAR ANALYSIS 101". playboy.com. Archived from the original on February 22, 2013. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
  19. ^ Zwicky, Arnold M. "Name that porn star" (PDF). stanford.edu. Retrieved February 21, 2013.

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