This page explains the main parameters used to retrieve, rank, correct, and recommend catalogue listings. Search results are not personalised to an individual, and we do not use a visitor's past searches, inferred sexual interests, identity, or affiliate value to rank them.
Eligibility comes before ranking
A listing is eligible only while the item and its source are active, the source is approved and its review is current, the territory is licensed, and applicable safety and destination controls pass. Permanent suppressions, prohibited searches, territory restrictions, and stale or unsafe destinations take priority over every scoring signal.
Search relevance
The most important parameter is how closely the query matches the listing's searchable title, performer, tags, categories, studio, and description. Exact title matches and query text appearing in the title receive the strongest additional boosts. Phrase matches, matches across more of the requested terms, and similarity to the title, performer, and tags are also relevant. A manually reviewed dictionary may expand a term with approved equivalents; a leading minus sign can exclude a term.
In relevance mode, textual relevance remains the controlling parameter. Only within a bounded set of closely relevant matches do smaller signals favour recent publication dates, decayed aggregate popularity from non-synthetic outbound clicks, and a small date-seeded discovery variation that is stable for a full day. Source-level editorial priority can lower, but does not exclude, a source. Listing safety and source approval remain separate eligibility controls and are never offset by popularity.
Where several sources each have a material number of competitive matches, retrieval includes a small bounded candidate sample from each of those sources before the close-match blend gives an underrepresented source an opportunity to appear. It does not reserve source slots or force a rare result forward: a source with only one or a few results, or only a very small share of the matching pool, receives no diversity boost, and weaker textual matches cannot overtake stronger ones. This is intended to reflect genuinely balanced result pools without manufacturing balance where the catalogue is not balanced.
Visitor-selected ordering
Selecting newest, longest, or most popular submits a new server-side search; it does not rearrange only the results already displayed in the browser. After required term coverage and typo quality, the selected field orders the complete eligible match set before the 100-result browsing window is selected. Newest and longest use publication date or duration, with missing values last. Most popular uses the decayed aggregate click signal described above; textual relevance resolves equal popularity. The selected order is not personalised and does not use affiliate compensation.
Corrections, broadening, and filters
If the strict query returns no result, we may show a spelling suggestion from an operator-maintained dictionary, retry with an approved correction, require a substantial rather than complete term match, or use fuzzy text similarity. The results page tells you when a correction or broader match was used and lets you search the original wording. Autocomplete uses the manually approved dictionary greenlist together with reviewed category and performer definitions that have qualifying catalogue results. It can combine recognized terms and use bounded spelling similarity, but it is not learned directly from raw searches or individual search histories.
Source, category, duration, and publication-date filters directly include or exclude listings. The visitor can change or clear them at any time. Changing the sort order retains those filters and starts the search again from its first page.
Related listings and catalogue collections
On a listing page, related items primarily favour overlap in categories, then the same studio, and then newer publication dates. Saved category pages use the same query ranking and visitor-controlled filters as ordinary search. Other catalogue collection pages are ordered by publication date. None of these pages use a visitor profile.
Commercial influence and changes
Affiliate compensation, commission rate, and predicted conversion do not currently affect catalogue admission or ordinary order. If paid placement or a commercial boost is introduced, it will be visually separated and clearly labelled, and its influence will be explained here. We may tune weights, safety thresholds, and quality rules to improve relevance and integrity; material changes to the main parameters will be reflected on this page.