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