What Everyone Was Into
Pornhub dropped their 2018 stats and the numbers are genuinely strange to think about. Thirty billion views, a hundred million a day, a thousand searches per second, five million videos uploaded. There’s a lot of people getting off on the internet.
The German top 5 porn stars are what you’d expect: Lucy Cat, Lana Rhoades, Riley Reid, Stormy Daniels, Lexy Roxx. But the categories are weirder. Stepmothers, gangbangs, hentai, watersports, Turkish women, plus the standards—anal, big tits, MILFs, lesbians, bondage. It shows what people want, and what they want mostly comes down to taboo, novelty, and danger.
The odd part is the crossover searches. Fortnite trending as a porn category. Airbnb. Cartoons. Girl surprised during sex
is its own thing, which is funny for reasons involving logistics. Germans searching specifically for German porn is kind of touching though—that small hope you’ll find someone from home, someone you’d recognize.
Globally the patterns are less surprising. Teenagers, Asians, Black girls, threesomes form the baseline. Transsexuals, Japanese, Overwatch cosplay show enough overlap with gaming to notice. But the classics still win: Mia Khalifa, Asa Akira, anyone famous enough to recognize.
Sasha Grey dropped out of the top 20 this year and I’m taking it personally. Someone has to keep the faith. Starting now.