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Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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And chinese dig japanese

And Kentucky favors gay porn. I wonder about the sample size.

I imagine the data is accurate. It's the same for a lot of conservative countries. I imagine they have less of an outlet to express their sexuality, so they search for porn. (E.g., people in New York wouldn't need as much gay porn---they have Grindr).

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That's kind of fascinating. Just looking around a bit, it seems very common in most parts of the world covered to search for one's own nationality as the most common term (Norwegians looking for Norway, Argentines looking for Argentina, etc). Americans seem to look for genres like teen, lesbian, mom, bbw, etc. Even big states like CA, NY, or TX don't seem interested in searching for people from their own states. I do…

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And chinese dig japanese

And Kentucky favors gay porn. I wonder about the sample size.

Check out the preponderance of ebony porn and black gay porn in the Deep South. Virginias, Kentucky, Mississippi, Georgia.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map for comparison...

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I'm guessing that this site is biggest in one country (USA?) and alot of those other countries have small sample sets to go on. Searches in many non-US countries are very specific to one porn star, which seems odd. Would need data on traffic by country to clarify that. If this kind of thing is important to you, that is...

Checked out some European countries and most seemed to have reasonable results until I got to Iceland. The results from Iceland do indeed suggest the sample set is way too small for some regions.

How about countries like Romania... 'Mom and son'. -What?

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Wow, South America really, really likes gay porn. Look at Peru--every one of the top searches is tagged "(gay)". I wonder why that is; are many Peruvians gay? Do straight Peruvians simply not view porn?

I think if you look around, there's a relationship between how tolerant/non-tolerant a country is and the frequency of 'gay' searches.

which makes sense. Non-tolerance will make anonymous/private transactions more appealing.

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Checked out some European countries and most seemed to have reasonable results until I got to Iceland. The results from Iceland do indeed suggest the sample set is way too small for some regions.

How about countries like Romania... 'Mom and son'. -What?

That one is listed for Hungary too. Looking at local sites and it seems that it's quite a popular fetish here.

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And Kentucky favors gay porn. I wonder about the sample size.

Check out the preponderance of ebony porn and black gay porn in the Deep South. Virginias, Kentucky, Mississippi, Georgia. http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map for comparison...

Most of these groups are very small with little influence (though some are very active politically, though it isn't listed, the Sons of Confederate Veterans loves to make life hard for state legislators and Governors). Many of these are literally holes in the wall, like The Redneck Shop in SC (not discrediting racism in the SE, but most people have other things to do with their time).

What is really going on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Black_belt_counties.png

Also you have a disproportionate number of historically black colleges in the South as compared to the rest of the US. Upper-middle black households are more likely to send their kids to schools like Spelman and Morehouse and if kids like anything, they like sex.

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