Despite these aesthetic crossovers, Inthecrack remains firmly outside legitimate popular media due to its explicit content. This exclusion raises important questions about the regulation of taste. When mainstream critics praise a film like Blue Is the Warmest Colour for its graphic sex scenes as “artistic,” but condemn similar compositions in Inthecrack as obscene, they reinforce a fragile boundary based on context and cultural capital. Popular media selectively borrows the form of adult entertainment (realism, POV, intimacy) while disavowing its content . This hypocrisy becomes visible in reality television, where shows like Love Island or Naked Attraction stage soft-core scenarios within a game-show framework—packaging the voyeuristic logic of Inthecrack for prime-time consumption. The line, it seems, is not between pornography and non-pornography but between sanctioned and unsanctioned viewing contexts.