Spiegel says she doesn’t love the idea of relinquishing control of the content, but as the site grows it’s an inevitability. There’s a reporting feature built into the site, which for now is as much moderation as the platform will have. In its new iteration, Quinn is relying on the community to report inappropriate content and behavior. “But you can have consensual nonconsent, so like within the boundaries of fantasy or play.” “Our golden rules are no incest-we allow stepbrother, stepsister-no beastiality, no minors whatsoever, and no nonconsent,” she says. Anyone and everyone can upload erotic audio so long as it doesn’t violate the community guidelines. Some of the audio clips are made by amateur audio porn enthusiasts others by people who record erotic audio for a living. Like with any platform, the quality of content can vary wildly, both creatively and technically. “Sometimes I'll hear someone with a sexy voice and I'll stop them,” she adds. She even occasionally approaches strangers about contributing. The site began to quickly fill with audio clips from people Spiegel and her team, sourced on places like on Reddit’s GoneWildAudio and Literotica. At the same time, she and a small team were reaching out to people to see if they’d feel comfortable contributing to the platform. She figured that she couldn’t be the only one who felt this way, so Spiegel began a makeshift user research campaign where she’d interview people on campus about their porn preferences. “It emphasizes the sort of nonobvious, intangible parts of sex-the desire, the buildup, and the intimacy that you get in real life.” Audio, she learned, allowed her to embrace the cerebral aspect of sexuality. “I felt so turned on in a way that I’d never felt by myself before,” Spiegel says. While searching for porn that she might actually like to watch, she came across a guided-audio masturbation track. And so much of mainstream porn, with its hyper-objectification of women’s bodies, didn’t feel like the right fit. Masturbating was difficult and not pleasurable. During her junior year, she had to drop out of school because of an eating disorder, and while recovering Spiegel says she realized she was uncomfortable with many aspects of her sex life. She started Quinn with her cofounder Jackie Hanley while she was studying computer science at Stanford University.
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