Marcel Winatschek

Germany Gets Off

There’s an unfiltered honesty to Pornhub’s annual statistics. What a country gets off to is basically the truth about what that country wants, stripped of all the usual lies and pretense.

The Japanese are into hentai and schoolgirls. Brazilians want video games. Swedes obsess over step-sisters. Canadians love lesbians. Each country’s basically a personality type reduced to search terms and fantasies.

Germany’s into stepmothers, teenagers, anal. Lucy Cat, Katja Krasavice, Aische Pervers. Those are the names. Top categories: anal, big tits, mature women, mothers, lesbians. And if the woman gets pissed on or covered in cum, that’s the real turn-on. That’s what hits. It’s the kind of honesty that makes you uncomfortable when it’s your own country staring back at you.

The weird part: that year’s top searches included Porn for women, Rick & Morty, and Fidget Spinner. Someone was genuinely searching for fidget spinner porn. The internet makes no sense.

Most countries want the same stuff. Porn’s porn, desire’s universal. But reading the data about Germany, there’s something deflating. The land of philosophers and poets, and what you’re actually seeing is a preference for degradation, humiliation, family taboos. No mystery to it. Pornhub just removes the pretense.