Theory
The question still stands: what is hypertextual porn? This page attempts to provide a theoretical answer. For an even less polished view into the source material for this article, see Brainstorm.
Introduction
When the World Wide Web was created its major accomplishment was that it made it easy for people to create links between multiple written works. These inter-document links were called "hyperlinks" because they enabled someone to instantly move from one document to another. This mode of navigating through information eventually became known as "hypertextual navigation."
Although this was created with academic papers in mind, soon the Web spanned many more applications than just academics. Lots of other kinds of written documents were also being placed online. One kind of written document was erotic literature. Interestingly, though there have been some attempts to use the Web to create erotic stories in a collaborative environment, most of the results are incredibly low quality.
With this experiment, I don't intend to replicate the mistakes of others but instead to create a new experience for the reader. Rather than invite the world at large to help me write an erotic story, I want to use the power of hypertext to create an erotic story which, itself, uses hypertext to express its hypertextuality. That is to say that I want to showcase the intertextuality of erotic literature by way of writing it in a way no one has done so before.
(Fine, fine, I'll stop flattering myself. I want to make porn.)
This means, of course, that this site is not just an experiment that provides a new kind of experience for the reader, but for the writers as well. In fact, by taking advantage of electronic media's read and write channels, the line between a reader and a writer can be blurred like never before.
Culture and hypertextuality
Nonlinearism
Literary influences
Conclusion
At its heart, hypertextual literature—and thus by inference hypertextual porn—is nothing more complicated than using the technology of the day to create a new means of telling stories. The invention of the motion picture in the early 20th Century inspired a new form of story telling its day. As the motion picture attracted visual story tellers, hypertextual storytelling attracts the hypertextual writer.
I think it should be carefully noted that this "new kind of story telling" is not intended to be an "improvement" or a betterment over the existing methods. It's not better, it's just different. Just as movies didn't obliterate books, and TV didn't obliterate radio, I don't think this idea will, can, or should obliterate linear story telling.