The increasing cost of living isn’t just hitting groceries; it’s hitting explicit content, too.
The porn site Clips4Sale reviewed millions of clips this month to determine how much the price of a clip has changed over time, depending on the fetish. With the “Kink Consumer Index” or KCI, Clips4Sale developed average prices for newly uploaded clips, year-by-year, in major fetish categories.
“Kink and fetish are impacted by the same economic forces that drive global markets: the cost of goods, supply and demand and shifting consumer trends,” Clips4Sale’s spokesperson, Avery Martin, said in a press release shared with Mashable.
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Here’s some good news: The overall price of fetish content has risen more slowly than the rate of inflation, according to Clips4Sale. The U.S. consumer price index (CPI), which measures the change in average costs of common foods, rose 25 percent between 2020 and the end of 2025, CNBC reported at the time, and given inflation due to the Iran War, that number is surely even higher now. The cost of the average fetish clip, meanwhile, has risen 12.3 percent since 2020.
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Credit: Clips4Sale
But the increase in average clip cost for certain fetishes has exploded (higher than the CPI) in the last six years:
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Boot Worship: +56 percent
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Wrestling: +45 percent
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BBW / SSBBW (“big beautiful woman” / “super-sized big beautiful woman”): +42 percent
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Balloons +39 percent
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High Heels: +34 percent
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Dirty Feet: +36 percent
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Foot Tickling: +33 percent
Several of these fall into the category of feet, which seems to be in high demand these days.
Credit: Clips4Sale
“Civilians and celebrities often think they can make big money selling feet pics, without understanding the fetish consumer. There’s a stunning diversity of content in the foot economy,” Martin continued. “Fetish creators should be recognized as the experts that they are, and valued accordingly.”
Kink and fetish are specialized skill sets that carry value, Martin said. While more people are working as adult creators today than in 2020 — which has kept content prices low — the market is diverse, and not all content is equal, she said. “We developed the KCI to help us track prices for our creators so they can help meet market demand.”
