What types of porn are people searching for? [NSFW]

[Shalmanese]

So right when the AOL search data came out, I downloaded it at played around with it for about a week and then promptly forgot about it. One of the searches I remember doing was seeing how often people searched for "x porn" to get an idea of relative fetish frequencies.

Just tonight, I was chatting with a friend and remembered that a couple of fetishes seemed oddly high on the list so I decided to dig out the data again and rerun the analysis. What I found seemed quite odd given the consensus view on human sexuality:

Search for "porn" (fetish searches in bold):


12189 porn
7118 free porn
2972 porno
1481 porn.com
1457 freeporn
777 pornography
745 free porno
720 www.porn.com
709 teen porn
691 gay porn
583 free porn movies
535 sex.porn com
530 www.freeporn.com
529 pornstars
498 incest porn
449 free gay porn
399 freeporn.com
398 free porn pics
368 black porn
358 porn stars
318 free porn videos
312 porn sites
309 www.porn
309 mature porn
308 free porn sites
304 asian porn
301 cartoon porn
300 lesbian porn
285 preteen porn
285 porncity
281 teenporn
276 porn videos
276 exits.freepornpics.com
264 porn queens
260 free porn.com
257 disney porn
251 anime porn
242 adult porn
236 rape porn
230 animal porn
229 free lesbian porn
226 free teen porn


A search for "sex"


11426 sex
2107 sex positions
1740 sex toys
1698 free sex
1696 sex stories
1652 sex.com
1594 free sex stories
1327 animal sex
1227 sexy girls
1221 www.sex.com
1166 sexual positions
1142 anal sex
1127 worldsex.com
1110 sex offenders
1033 sexy swimwear
977 sexy
755 teen sex
746 oral sex
613 sexy women
606 world sex
565 teensex
559 animalsex


Now if you were to ask me before I ran this analysis what the most common fetishes were based on intuition, I would probably have said definitely teen and preteen, lesbian, maybe bondage, gay probably wouldn't have surprised me. What I totally wasn't expecting was that incest and animal sex ranked right up there. It seems our entire societal expectation is that incest and bestiality have always been somewhat fringe activities but the AOL logs show a very different picture to what we are commonly told.

Just as a matter of interest, I ran the top 10 most common queries for gay, teen, incest and animal respectively:


1318 gay.com
954 gay
691 gay porn
459 free gay pics
451 gay sex
449 free gay porn
365 www.gay.com
291 gay men
246 gay pic
213 www.blkgaychat.com

1829 preteen models
755 teen sex
744 naked teens
709 teen porn
615 nude teens
578 preteen
565 teensex
557 teen chat
546 teen pussy
497 teen models

2071 incest
594 incest galleries
498 incest porn
485 incest stories
273 incesttaboo
249 incestart
189 incest pics
153 incest sex
148 free incest stories
140 prepubescent incest stories

1327 animal sex
767 animals
559 animalsex
289 sex with animals
230 animal porn
203 animal planet
157 animal pictures
155 animal shelters
134 jaguar animal
131 animal kingdom


It seems pretty clear that, as far as search volume goes, animal sex and incest possibly even exceed all other types of fetishes.

Of course, one alternative explanation is that there are only a few incest or bestiality lovers but they simply do more searches. I'm planning on running another batch of processing tonight to see the number of unique users for these search terms to see if that is the case.

But assuming it's not, what the hell are the implications that arise from this? What if there were more people who were into bestiality than were gay? How does that affect the discussion on gay rights or what are acceptable sexual practices? Why does the gay lobby have so much power compared to the animal lovers lobby if they are comparable in size? Do these people remain in the closet due to the intense social stigma? It's too late for me to even begin to think about what this means but I'd be interested in hearing what you all make of this.

PS: Just noticed that people seemed to expect that gay porn should be free but not incest porn as much... kinda funny

[Sage Rat]

I suspect that you'll do better figuring out the numbers by looking up the number of sites that support a particular fetish, rather than the number of searches.

If a fetish is really hard to find, then you have to do more searching to find it, hence you'll get a higher search count. But a porn site can only make as much money as there is demand for that content. So in general, the more demand there is, the more porn sites there will be that are able to stay afloat.

"Incest" porn is relatively common in Japan (going from how many sites (are rumored to) provide it.) Lesbian porn is actually harder to find. But I doubt that that holds true for English language sites from what...is rumored.

[tomndebb]

Are you looking for information?
Opinions?
A debate? With what as the thesis?

[Elsie]

But assuming it's not, what the hell are the implications that arise from this? What if there were more people who were into bestiality than were gay?
I'd like to look at the age demographic – when I was a mid teen there were all kinds of rumours about women and donkey’s and such like – the whole Catherine the Great gig.

Legendary stuff, and always just around the corner. Never got to see any, but then we didn’t have the Internet then.

So my hunch is it’s primarily humour/humor based stuff (by maybe young adults – the ‘lads’ culture, for example), with a bit of mid teen over-excitement thrown in.

[Dunderman]

Now if you were to ask me before I ran this analysis what the most common fetishes were based on intuition, I would probably have said definitely teen and preteen, lesbian, maybe bondage, gay probably wouldn't have surprised me. What I totally wasn't expecting was that incest and animal sex ranked right up there. It seems our entire societal expectation is that incest and bestiality have always been somewhat fringe activities but the AOL logs show a very different picture to what we are commonly told.How common the activities are is a very, very different thing from how common it is to search for them on the Internet.

As an aside: preteen porn would have figured in your top 2 fetish list, but incest surprises you?

[Kalhoun]

Anything imaginable, and then some.

[carterba]

I think you're biasing the counts by including the word "sex" and "porn". Searchers are probably more likely to include those terms when searching for "incest" or "animal" simply because there are so many non-porn sites associated with those terms. Whereas "bondage" is going to get you a lot of porn sites whether you include the word "porn" or not. Same with "lesbian" and probably "gay" too.

I have the AOL data somewhere... I'll see if I can find it.

[WhyNot]

Also remember that porn sites are part of fantasy life, and as such very different from what people are actually interested in participating in. I sincerely doubt my husband is searching for "routine married sex with my overweight wife" porn, but that's what he enjoys doing in person most often!

A startlingly high number of women have so-called "rape fantasies" (I think they're more accurately termed "consequence-free-sex-with-a-stranger fantasies", but whatever) but I can guarantee that not nearly so many actually want to be raped. And changing public attitudes and policy under that assumption would be very unwise indeed. I can just see the defense now: "Well, your honor, the plaintiff had run 13 Google searches for "rape porn" in the previous week, so it was obvious that my client's raping her was actually fulfilling her fantasy and therefore consensual."

[tdn]

I'm a little surprised that wet sex doesn't even make the list at all.

[XT]

I'm a little surprised that wet sex doesn't even make the list at all.

Or chuncky/chubby/fat (whatever its called) porn. It seems I'm always getting junk mail about this...yet it doesn't seem popular, at least wrt what the OP is saying. I'd think, at least in America, it would be, er, hugely popular. :p

(no idea what the debate is...just thought I'd toss that out)

-XT

[Elsie]

(no idea what the debate is...just thought I'd toss that out)
-XT
:eek:

[Miller]

I'm curious as to how the OP is defining "fetish."

[RTFirefly]

I'm curious as to how the OP is defining "fetish."If it's something I like, it's a 'variation.' If it's something you like, it's a 'kink.' If it's something they like, it's a 'fetish.'

Dunno if that's what the OP meant, but what the hey. :)

[gonzomax]

You missed one I heard someone talking about the other day....Midget Porn.

[Dunderman]

Heard about. Right.

[lowbrass]

What if there were more people who were into bestiality than were gay? How does that affect the discussion on gay rights or what are acceptable sexual practices? Why does the gay lobby have so much power compared to the animal lovers lobby if they are comparable in size
An animal can't really consent to sex; I'd say that's the main reason why it's wrong. Some behaviors would be immoral no matter how many people fantasized about doing it - rape, for example. So how does this affect the discussion on gay rights? Not at all.

[Evil One]

What about this title...which caused me to nearly collapse from convulsive laughter?

"Ninety and Naughty"

You should have seen the photo.

[Vinyl Turnip]

Heard about. Right.

There's also this guy he knows who had to go to the emergency room to get a Mason jar removed from his rectum. This other guy, who totally isn't him.

[Elsie]

No wonder the Mason's keep quiet about their ceremonies.

[Caridwen]

I know a couple people in the phone sex industry and they say 90% of their calls involve anal sex.

As far as a fetish calls, one has a number of foot fetish calls and one has a client who is a macrophile, but they say it's pretty much all anal all the time. Maybe there are call centers for specialty work. ;)

SFW http://www.salon.com/health/sex/urge/1999/05/22/macrophilia/index.html

[RedFury]

If this is some sort of poll, put me down for D/s and lots of lesbians. Latex ain't bad either.

Thank you.

[Taber]

Or chuncky/chubby/fat (whatever its called) porn. It seems I'm always getting junk mail about this...yet it doesn't seem popular, at least wrt what the OP is saying. I'd think, at least in America, it would be, er, hugely popular. :p

(no idea what the debate is...just thought I'd toss that out)

-XT

well of course, if it's being sent to your mailbox, why would you need to search for it? :p

[RTFirefly]

What about this title...which caused me to nearly collapse from convulsive laughter?

"Ninety and Naughty"

You should have seen the photo.No, I shouldn't have. Trust me on this.

(Where's that 'barf' smiley when you need one?)

When I'm 90, I hope I'm still a horny old goat, but I sure wouldn't want to see pix of me in action at that age.

[XT]

well of course, if it's being sent to your mailbox, why would you need to search for it?

lol...well, thats probably a good point at that. :p However, those who like that kind of thing and are not as fortunate as I to have to constantly put in their junk mail folder may still need to do some kind of search I would assume.


IS this a poll?

-XT

[Little Nemo]

With all these people looking for "teen porn" and "teen sex" I guess there must be a lot of twenty year old women feeling desperate and lonely now that their peak years are past. Ladies, I feel your pain. Call me.

This offer is open to women over twenty as well.

[Scylla]

Are you looking for information?
Opinions?
A debate? With what as the thesis?


Does "free bestiality" really need a thesis?

[BrainGlutton]

So where's the hobbit porn?! (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5754345&highlight=hobbit+porn#post5754345)

[JRDelirious]

Well, one thing that seems pretty clear from those stats is that whatever form of entertainment people want to find online, they want it "free". THAT bit should surprise absolutely noone.

[GIGObuster]

So where's the hobbit porn?! (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5754345&highlight=hobbit+porn#post5754345)
I do remember reading in a thread of porno movies names about The Lord of the G-string

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323108/
A diminutive and seductive Throbbit has been entrusted with the task of destroying the all-powerful G-String that can grant its possessor untold powers.
:smack:

I guess this confirms Rule 34.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Rule+34
Rule 34
Generally accepted internet rule that states that pornography or sexually related material exists for any conceivable subject.

[Gentle Robot]

Or chuncky/chubby/fat (whatever its called) porn. It seems I'm always getting junk mail about this...yet it doesn't seem popular, at least wrt what the OP is saying. I'd think, at least in America, it would be, er, hugely popular. :p

(no idea what the debate is...just thought I'd toss that out)

-XT
plumper

[marshmallow]

I think "BBW" is the phrase/category.

[Malacandra]

An animal can't really consent to sex; I'd say that's the main reason why it's wrong. Some behaviors would be immoral no matter how many people fantasized about doing it - rape, for example. So how does this affect the discussion on gay rights? Not at all.

This is a hijack, but so what about the consent when it's an animal? We can already hitch it to a plough or a cart, or ride it over fences, or steal its fur or its milk, or cage it and make it run its reproductive cycle once a day just so we can eat the product, or feed it medicines that we're debugging, or kill it for meat or hide or fun, all without its consent, so why choke on the gnat when it comes to fucking it? Very properly we consider consent to be paramount when it's a matter of human rights, but it's bizarre to even think it applies to an animal.

[WhyNot]

This is a hijack, but so what about the consent when it's an animal? We can already hitch it to a plough or a cart, or ride it over fences, or steal its fur or its milk, or cage it and make it run its reproductive cycle once a day just so we can eat the product, or feed it medicines that we're debugging, or kill it for meat or hide or fun, all without its consent, so why choke on the gnat when it comes to fucking it? Very properly we consider consent to be paramount when it's a matter of human rights, but it's bizarre to even think it applies to an animal.
[sarcasm on] Because sex is DIfferent. Sex is BEAUTIFUL and MAGICAL and an EXPRESSION OF LOOOOOOOOOVE! :rolleyes: [/sarcasm off. . . maybe]

[Frylock]

More people by far search for preteen models than teen porn... :eek:

-FrL-

[XT]

Isn't that illegal? How can websites advertise such stuff? (I'm a bit out of things here)

-XT

[dropzone]

I suspect that you'll do better figuring out the numbers by looking up the number of sites that support a particular fetish, rather than the number of searches.It turns out, there are very few sites that support the underage stuff. It seems like a lot at first but they all end you up in the same couple of sites, all Eastern European or Russian. The number of searches for teen porn should be taken with a grain of salt because the results are not only liable to get you anything, including 90-yr-olds, but the definition of "teen" seems to stretch to nearly thirty. Even the ones guaranteeing real teens are loaded with disclaimers that all of the models were at least 18 when their pictures were taken.

Disclaimer: The creepy, underage junk is not to my taste. I was doing REAL research for a friend who was writing a novel that has a publisher and a release date and can be sent through the mail without a plain, brown wrapper. And my research was limited to free sites in English I could get to fairly easily because, when the pay for all my work, viral damage to my system, and personal damage to my reputation is a free copy of the book ("But it will be autographed!"), there are limits to what I'm willing to do.

[Thudlow Boink]

With all these people looking for "teen porn" and "teen sex" I guess there must be a lot of twenty year old women feeling desperate and lonely now that their peak years are past. Ladies, I feel your pain. Call me.

This offer is open to women over twenty as well.Maybe they're holding out for someone who doesn't have the word "little" as part of his name. :p

[Sage Rat]

the definition of "teen" seems to stretch to nearly thirty
I think that "teen" mostly just means "hasn't had a boob job."

[lowbrass]

This is a hijack, but so what about the consent when it's an animal? We can already hitch it to a plough or a cart, or ride it over fences, or steal its fur or its milk, or cage it and make it run its reproductive cycle once a day just so we can eat the product, or feed it medicines that we're debugging, or kill it for meat or hide or fun, all without its consent, so why choke on the gnat when it comes to fucking it? Very properly we consider consent to be paramount when it's a matter of human rights, but it's bizarre to even think it applies to an animal.
I suppose all of those things are immoral.

[Zakalwe]

I think that "teen" mostly just means "hasn't had a boob job."That strikes me as the most profound explanation I've ever seen on the subject. Well done sir.

[Sage Rat]

Do my best.

[TV time]

See, I thought teenage poultry porn would be much higher.

[Guinastasia]

What about this title...which caused me to nearly collapse from convulsive laughter?

"Ninety and Naughty"

You should have seen the photo.


Meh, that's nothing. Try doing a search for "pornosaurus". It's both really really bad and really really funny at the same time.

[Princhester]

I think also the number of searches are heavily biased against what people seek regularly.

The following is a gross oversimplification but is perhaps illustrative: let's say I like plain boy-and-girl-fuck porn.

I do one search. I obtain a zillion url's. I try a few of them. I find several sites with regularly updated material. I go back to them time and time again over a period of (say) a year before I get completely bored and do another search.

One time in that year, because I am a curious teenager, I type "animal porn" into a search engine. I check out a few of the hits, gross myself out, sate my curiousity and never go back.

Your stats would show me as liking animal porn as much as straight porn. But clearly, that is an utterly inaccurate picture.

[mr. jp]

Hmm, this is AOL. I think they search for different things than people using google.

[dropzone]

I think that "teen" mostly just means "hasn't had a boob job."From the stretch marks it doesn't seem to mean "isn't a mother of four."

[Elendil's Heir]

...I guess this confirms Rule 34.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Rule+34

Dave Barry once wrote that sex is so omnipresent on the Web that if you did a search for "Porn about having sex with goats that are on fire," before long you'll get an automated message asking you to clarify, "What kind of goats?"

[bouv]

I think that "teen" mostly just means "hasn't had a boob job."

You forgot "and has hair in pigtails." :rolleyes:

[bouv]

Dave Barry once wrote that sex is so omnipresent on the Web that if you did a search for "Porn about having sex with goats that are on fire," before long you'll get an automated message asking you to clarify, "What kind of goats?"

The sexy kind.


Duh.

[Mister Rik]

With all these people looking for "teen porn" and "teen sex" I guess there must be a lot of twenty year old women feeling desperate and lonely now that their peak years are past.
Not really. If you just go looking for "porn", you're going to end up with a lot of sites featuring women with the traditional "porn star" look: huge, fake tits, big hair, and way too much makeup. Some of us don't find that appealing at all; some of us like smaller breasts and a more natural look. The stuff typically classified as "teen porn" generally features the smaller-breasted, more natural models who don't look like "porn stars" - in other words, girls you might actually meet in real life. And they're "teens" only by virtue of some of them being 18 or 19. The "teen" porn models usually fall between the ages of 18 and 25.

[Der Trihs]

So where's the hobbit porn?! (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5754345&highlight=hobbit+porn#post5754345)It's out there. Not to mention Gandalf porn. And Orc porn. And Orc-on-elf porn. Really.

I do recall a rather funny picture titled "Frodo discovers the power of the One Ring". Galadriel is giving Frodo a blow job while he dangles the Ring on it's chain over her head, and he's saying, "And if you use your tongue right, maybe I'll let you touch it !"

Then there's Zerg porn and Xenomorph porn and Borg porn and dinosaur porn and Klingon porn and World of Warcraft porn . . .

[GIGObuster]

...and World of Warcraft porn . . .

http://news.com.com/2061-10797_3-6067025.html
The Internet is for porn (and 'World of Warcraft')
May 1, 2006

One of the best things about the Internet these days is the unending flow of terrific Web videos that crack you up, even as you're wondering who has the time to put such things together.

Now, with "The Internet is for porn," comes perhaps (hyperbole warning!) the king of all such silliness.

The "The Internet is for porn" video was made entirely in "World of Warcraft," but the lyrics for one glorious number--one in which a lady monster sings about the Internet's most wonderful aspects while a slightly gruffer male monster counters that "the Internet is for porn,"--is straight from (as pointed out by an alert reader) the Broadway musical, "Avenue Q."

In the song, the monster's go back and forth--she argues that anyone who would use the Internet for porn is a pervert. He essentially replies: "Hey, what do you think they made the Internet for in the first place?"
:)
With link to the video in the report. (not porn in that funny video, except an R rated frame at the end and NSFW lyrics)

[Autolycus]

It must be creepy to be a porn star downloading porn and accidentally watch yourself :eek:

[BrainGlutton]

It must be creepy to be a porn star downloading porn and accidentally watch yourself :eek:

Are you kidding?! That's the best part! ;)

[BrainGlutton]

The Internet is for porn

From the hit Broadway musical "Avenue Q": (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenue_q)

THE PORNO MONSTER:

The Internet is for porn!
The Internet is for porn!
Me all night, hugging my horn
To Internet porn! :D

[Elendil's Heir]

It must be creepy to be a porn star downloading porn and accidentally watch yourself :eek:

Meh. It's happened to me so often, I'm used to it.

[tomndebb]

Well, there is no deabte here.

My first thought was IMHO, but it seems to be discussing (somewhat) a genre, I guess it actually belongs more in Cafe Society.

Sorry, Dex.

[ /Moderating ]

[coffeecat]

Dave Barry once wrote that sex is so omnipresent on the Web that if you did a search for "Porn about having sex with goats that are on fire," before long you'll get an automated message asking you to clarify, "What kind of goats?"
And a Google ad telling you that eBay's the ideal place to find a wide selection of gently used flaming sex goats.

[Eltanin]

Not really. If you just go looking for "porn", you're going to end up with a lot of sites featuring women with the traditional "porn star" look: huge, fake tits, big hair, and way too much makeup. Some of us don't find that appealing at all; some of us like smaller breasts and a more natural look. The stuff typically classified as "teen porn" generally features the smaller-breasted, more natural models who don't look like "porn stars" - in other words, girls you might actually meet in real life. And they're "teens" only by virtue of some of them being 18 or 19. The "teen" porn models usually fall between the ages of 18 and 25.

Reread the OP - he's not commenting on "teen porn" but is trying to pick up women. ;)

[lowbrass]

I think also the number of searches are heavily biased against what people seek regularly.

The following is a gross oversimplification but is perhaps illustrative: let's say I like plain boy-and-girl-fuck porn.

I do one search. I obtain a zillion url's. I try a few of them. I find several sites with regularly updated material. I go back to them time and time again over a period of (say) a year before I get completely bored and do another search.

One time in that year, because I am a curious teenager, I type "animal porn" into a search engine. I check out a few of the hits, gross myself out, sate my curiousity and never go back.

Your stats would show me as liking animal porn as much as straight porn. But clearly, that is an utterly inaccurate picture.
So you're saying animal porn is your favorite?

Just kidding.

[tdn]

What's disturbing is when you download porn and you could swear that one of the actresses is your niece. This happened to me recently. After much scrutiny (of the non-creepy kind), I concluded that it most likely was not her. I deleted it anyway. *shudder*