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Clop is fan-made pornography or
Clop is fan-made pornography or erotic art
Erotic art is a broad field of the visual arts that includes any artistic work intended to evoke erotic arousal. It usually depicts human nudity or sexual activity, and has included works in various visual mediums, including drawings, engr ...
, fan fiction, fan films
A fan film is a film or video inspired by a film, television program, comic book, book, or video game created by fans rather than by the source's copyright holders or creators. Fan filmmakers have traditionally been amateurs, but some of the mo ...
, fangames
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, and other fan labor
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based on the animated series '' My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' and '' My Little Pony: Equestria Girls'' and further generations of said franchise. It first appeared in 2010, very shortly after the show first aired.
Etymology
The word "clop" itself is apun
A pun, also known as paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use of homophoni ...
or wordplay
Word play or wordplay (also: play-on-words) is a literary technique and a form of wit in which words used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement. Examples of word play include puns, phon ...
based on the slang word " fap." The word is also used as a verb, to refer to masturbating as "clopping." Other related terms include ''clop-fic'' for erotic fiction/slash fiction
Slash fiction (also known as "m/m slash") is a genre of fan fiction that focuses on romantic or sexual relationships between fictional characters of the same sex.Bacon-Smith, Camille. "Spock Among the Women." New York Times Sunday Book Review, ...
centered around ''My Little Pony'' characters, and ''clopper'' for a person who enjoys this type of material.
History
Considered to be either a subset of brony fandom, furry fandom, or both, ''My Little Pony''-inspired erotic fan art reportedly first began appearing on the web around 2012. Most of thefanfiction
Fan fiction or fanfiction (also abbreviated to fan fic, fanfic, fic or FF) is fictional writing written in an amateur capacity by fans, unauthorized by, but based on an existing work of fiction. The author uses copyrighted characters, setti ...
stories are focused on romance between the characters rather than titillation. When compared to other fandoms' fan art, the ''Friendship Is Magic'' fan art more prominently features homosexual ships. The topic has received scholarly attention. To some in the fandom, "clopping" (masturbating to clop) is frowned upon. On the other hand, in 2015, ''The Guardian
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'' reported that in the Brony community on 4chan
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, having sex with a real person was seen as a negative, and not clopping as a form of heresy. The most popular character in ''My Little Pony''-related pornography is Rainbow Dash, followed by Rarity and Pinkie Pie.
Demographics and geography
According to internal studies, 19.05% ofbronies
''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' is an animated television series produced by Hasbro as part of the ''My Little Pony'' toy franchise, which is tied in with the My Little Pony (2010 toyline), 2010 relaunch of dolls and play sets and orig ...
have engaged in clopping, but it is assumed that the percentage is actually larger. A different survey by Pornhub
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revealed that most participants are millennials aging from 16 to 24 years old and that men are 37% more likely to search for ''My Little Pony''-related pornography than women.
While most of the ''My Little Pony'' fandom is located in the United States
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and United Kingdom
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, most ''My Little Pony''-related pornography is watched in Slavic Europe
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** East Slavic peoples, eastern group of Slavic peoples
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** West Sla ...
, with Belarus
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, Russia
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, Ukraine
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, and the Czech Republic
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being the top four.
Reception
'' Baltimore Sun'' journalist Gianna Decarlo condemned erotic art as one of the problems of the ''My Little Pony'' fandom, as it became an "unstoppable force of sexual deviancy" and that "not even a simple Google search is safe." EJ Dickson of the ''Daily Dot
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The site, conceived as the Internet's "hometown ...
'' wrote that enjoyers of the erotic art are "black sheep in the community," meaning that the rest of the brony fandom fears that cloppers will give the whole fandom a bad name.
See also
*Cartoon pornography
Cartoon pornography, or animated pornography, is the portrayal of illustrated or animated fictional cartoon characters in erotic or sexual situations. Animated cartoon pornography or erotic animation, is a subset of the larger field of adult an ...
* Doujinshi
, also romanized as ', is the Japanese term for self-published print works, such as magazines, manga, and novels. Part of a wider category of ''doujin'' (self-published) works, ''doujinshi'' are often derivative of existing works and created by ...
* ''Overwatch'' and pornography
* Rule 34
Rule 34 is an Internet meme which claims that Internet pornography exists concerning every conceivable topic. The concept is commonly depicted as fan art of normally non-erotic subjects engaging in sexual behavior. It can also include writing ...
* Tijuana bible
Tijuana bibles (also known as eight-pagers, Tillie-and-Mac books, Jiggs-and-Maggie books, jo-jo books, bluesies, blue-bibles, gray-backs, and two-by-fours) were palm-sized pornographic comic books produced in the United States from the 1920s to ...
* Yiff
References
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