British housewives are making a killing by shooting porn at home
One of the world's biggest porn sites is based in Doncaster - it's a British tech success story
ONE of the world's biggest porn sites is based in an industrial estate in the sleepy Yorkshire town of DONCASTER.
The website, called Clips4sale, hosts a startling 5 million porn films, dwarfing the competition in terms of the number and variety of kinky films available.
Thousands of sellers have films on offer on the website, then it's up to buyers to choose what turns them on.
So rather than the people who own the site making the films themselves, they are just middlemen (normally a pretty uncomfortable place to be on an adult movie set...).
Sometimes it's pretty vanilla - but because you can commission literally anything that tickles your fancy, it's like an open book on what secretly makes people hot under the collar.
All the classics we've heard of are there - the current number one is bondage.
There's plenty of odd things right near the top of the charts - with tickling the fourth most popular fetish, farting coming in at number 15 and 'pedal pumping' - being turned on by women who can't make their car start - at number 35.
And that's just the top 40 - once you get outside that it gets really, really weird.
There are over 10,000 fetishes represented in 1,000 categories. For example, there's 750 porn films about 'Apron fetish' (no wonder Bake-off is so popular), 128 porn films on 'Orthodonic brace fetish' and even 30 'Ride on Lawnmower fetish' films.
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Sometimes everyday things are hot to some people - so crying, burping and even women getting haircuts turn some people on.
Probably the strangest thing we found was a train driver charging £15 a time for films of him not doing anything sexy, just driving his train - this fetish, called 'siderodromophilia' makes him thousands a year - it's porn, but not as we know it.
The website, founded in 2003, now has 5 million films online; currently 80,000 films are uploaded per month - that's a million new porn films a year.
Every custom film costs in the ballpark of £200 to commission - and then sells online for £10-£15 each.
The website takes a 30% cut of everything; that means the owners are making £30 million a year, even if every new film is only downloaded once - and some of the most popular films have had hundreds of thousands of downloads.
It's not just the website owners coining it either - as revealed in a recent , the earnings for performers are good enough that some people have been able to quit their day jobs, and go full time as fetish porn stars.
It certainly beats working for a living, doesn't it?