PornHub's text service lets you search using a range of suggestive EMOJIS

Many emoji have already taken on hidden, and in some cases, sexual meanings - especially the aubergine and peach - and now PornHub is taking advantage of this.

A series of icons can now be used to search for niche videos on the major porn site.

Users simply text one of 30 suggestive emoji, such as a peach or video camera, to PornHub to receive suggestions of adult content straight to their mobile.



Texting gets more titillating: Emoji can now be used to search for niche videos on a major porn site. Users simply text one of 30 suggestive emoji such as a video camera or even joker (examples above) to a certain number to receive suggestions of content that may tickle their fancy straight to their mobile

More savoury examples of Pornhub's emoji service include the video camera to Generator memów access 'amateur' content, and a joker card for 'funny' videos.



Others are a lot more explicit and obscure.

'In an age of convenience, text-messaging has become the leading method of conversation,' said Corey Price, vice president, Pornhub.

'Users can now text an emoji to our specially designated number and receive a popular Pornhub video from a specific category.

There are 30 emoji listed by Pornhub that can be used to order racy videos to a phone. Six of them are flags (shown above) and users of the service can unlock more emoji 'codes' to use (bottom row)

THE UBIQUITY OF PORNHUB Pornhub is one of the most popular adult websites, averaging 78.9 billion video views a year - that's about 11 views per person on Earth.

More than four million registered Pornhub users account for some of the 60 million daily visits to the site.

The site racks up 2.1 million visits per hour.

'This enhances our Generator memów arsenal of digital capabilities, streamlining our content recommendations, delivering them directly to our user's mobile devices.'

While the service may seem shocking to some and may perhaps encourage some users to watch adult content on public transport and even at work, it is part of a trend allowing people to search for subjects and shop using emoji.

Last summer, for example, Dominos revealed a service allowing people to order pizza by texting or tweeting an emoji in the US.

The exception to the rule is Instagram, which banned its users for searching for content using the aubergine emoji, for fear they might come across some rude pictures.

Pornhub's emoji service is available in the US, UK and Canada and unlike other mobile offerings, it doesn't use a premium number.

Pornhub's emoji service is available in the US, UK and Canada and unlike other similar mobile offerings, it doesn't use a premium number. Two emoji that already have suggestive meanings are shown above

It's the latest offering from the Montreal-based company, which recently launched a virtual reality category on its website, meaning users can watch adult content in 360 degrees.

Pornhub has partnered with BaDoinkVR, a leader in adult virtual reality entertainment, to launch the new list of films on the site.

Videos are available for both Android and iOS users, playable through most virtual reality headsets and can even be used with Google Cardboard for smartphones.

THE CONFUSING WORLD OF EMOJI Researchers last month showed the emoticons vary so radically across platforms such as iOS and Android that their meanings get easily muddled.

The researchers found that participants disagreed on whether an emoji was positive, neural or negative a quarter of the time, even when rating them within the same platform.

Researchers last month showed emoji, used in text messages and social media, vary so radically across platforms such as iOS and Android that their meanings get easily muddled. The emoji illustrated above are meant to be the same, but vary dramatically across platforms

They found Apple's 'crying laughing' emoji was the most confusing within the platform, followed by the 'grinning' one.

In fact, Apple Google, Microsoft, Samsung and LG all had the same problem with the 'crying laughing' which was the most confusing within all the platforms studied.

The clearest on iOS was found to be the sleeping emoji.

LG, Microsoft and Google's clearest emoji was found to be the 'love' face.