Thigh gap porn is pornographic material featuring women with "thigh gaps," which refers to a space between the inner thighs when a person is standing upright and with their legs together. Thigh gap porn features sexually explicit images or videos starring unusually and sometimes startlingly thin women with thigh gaps.
Thigh gap porn may have sprung from the craze for the "inner thigh gap aesthetic" (ITG), which sprung up on Tumblr in 2013. The more pornographic version of these photos were termed "box gap" because they focused on the genitals, or "box."
Thigh gap porn is often considered troubling in its fetishization of extremely thin women. Because porn tends to reflect traditional beauty standards, thigh gap porn is likely a reflection of Western cultures' reverence thinness. A
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Although standards around beauty are always shifting, the thigh gap emerged as a beauty trend between 2012 and 2013, when a Victoria's Secret show featured several models with noticeable thigh gaps and received significant news coverage as a result. This is around the same time that "thinspo" and other online communities designed to support and encourage extreme thinness and the unhealthy behaviors that may be required to attain it began to come under scrutiny.
Thigh gap porn is criticized by some who feel that sexualizing a term that came from communities of vulnerable women may further encourage anorexia, bulimia and other destructive behaviors. Experts say that for most people, a thigh gap is an unrealistic beauty standard.
