Porn, for the vast majority of the population, is a visual experience. But for the blind and people with visual impairments, getting off is a bit more complicated than firing up any one of the millions of dirty videos on the web. Now, Pornhub has made things a little easier. On Thursday, the web's best-known porn empire announced that its website was fully optimized for visually impaired users. In recent years, independent sites and even major productions studios have made an effort to produce pornographic content that's accessible to people with visual impairments.

By its very nature, pornography is a visual medium—despite the loose plot and mood music of some, at the end of the day, it's what's on the screen that gets you off. But what do the blind and visually impaired turn to when they want to buff the banana or flick the magic bean? As it stands, little—and considering there's an estimated This June, web pornography behemoth Pornhub launched a NSFW, obviously " described video " category to make a portion of their offerings accessible to visually impaired users. The site hired professional voice actors to record "audio description" tracks—a translation of visuals using precise, brief language—for 50 of the site's top-viewed videos. It may represent the largest and most comprehensive effort to date to make erotic materials available to the visually impaired, a field that has, until now, been sorely lacking quality content. Since , volunteers have recorded audio descriptions of pornographic videos and porn trailers on a website called Porn for the Blind , and while the amateur offerings there represent at least some sort of accessible erotica available for the visually impaired, the majority of the site's content is of poor quality.

Offering exclusive content not available on Pornhub. Pornhub Cares has just launched a brand new category on the site called Described Video, which features videos with specially added audio descriptions. We chose from our top performing videos and added the extra audio track so that our visually impaired users could enjoy the content to its full potential.

Then, when he was 17 years old, David was hit in the face by a bullet from a gauge shotgun during a drive-by shooting. He was blinded instantly. The pages of Penthouse are far less stimulating when you can't see them. After losing his sight, David, now a year-old professor at a southern university, searched for porn on the Internet, settling on pornographic stories dictated to him by a screen-reading software or listening to regular porn videos without seeing the action.