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Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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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...

That's also where the majority of the black population lives[1], so it's not much different than asians being high in California. I don't think your correlation to racism has much to do with it, at least not in the way it seems you are implying.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_2000_black_percent.gi...

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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…

Indeed. If you look at Japan the entire top 10 is dominated by variations on "japanese".

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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…

I'd imagine that's because much of the net is US-centric by default and there's less variance/no language barrier between NY/CA/TX, as there would be between, say, Brazil/Argentina or Germany/Norway.

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

That's also where the majority of the black population lives[1], so it's not much different than asians being high in California. I don't think your correlation to racism has much to do with it, at least not in the way it seems you are implying. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_2000_black_percent.gi...

Well...

Blacks are still a minority in these places. I know they are a minority in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. I think it is probably a combination of blacks and whites searching on 'Ebony' that makes it come out on top in the data. Just as in California I strongly suspect a combination of Asians and Whites searching on 'Asian' places that term high in their data.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

I think in the deep South there is still a 'taboo' of sorts on relationships with blacks. Leading to more searches on 'Ebony' as fewer people experiment with it. A phenomenon similar to the data from other more conservative nations where the top search becomes *(Gay). It's just a 'safe' outlet.

The presence of places like Spelman probably magnifies the effect. I'd wager that if you put the college for the daughter's of the nation's elite blacks in the middle of say... Iowa... the number of searches on 'Ebony' would shoot up in Iowa as well.

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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.

After living in Hungary I picked up on the fact that mother/son relationships are not what they are in the rest of the world and what we in the States would consider too close. I heard that it wasn't uncommon for married men to take their laundry home to their mother's house on the weekend, etc. Western Romania is still strongly ethnically Hungarian, so that could account for the similar prevalence there.

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's also where the majority of the black population lives[1], so it's not much different than asians being high in California. I don't think your correlation to racism has much to do with it, at least not in the way it seems you are implying. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_2000_black_percent.gi...

Well... Blacks are still a minority in these places. I know they are a minority in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. I think it is probably a combination of blacks and whites searching on 'Ebony' that makes it come out on top in the data. Just as in California I strongly suspect a combination of Asians and Whites searching on 'Asian' places that term high in their data.

Or more likely, white people don't have to specify "white" in their searches because most mainstream porn is already "white". If that wasn't the case, I'd bet "white" or "caucasian" would be the top search in every single state.

Sure there are probably quite a few white people that also search for ebony porn. But I doubt it's that much higher amongst whites in the south vs. whites in the north. And even if it is, it's probably not a correlation to racism as the parent post was implying.

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