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Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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Hm. They labeled Oregon "Nevada", there is no info on how many searches these lists represent, and I'm not sure what half of these terms mean (most bizarrely "Straight (gay)"?) - but otherwise it's very interesting. I would have assumed a priori that stereotypical national fetishes feature more clearly, but instead people seem to search for their own country in the first place.

Massachusetts and Connecticut have also merged apparently.

Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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Strange how Asian is top ten USA, even moreso than Ebony considering there are more African-American men and women in the U.S. than Asians. The more general terms (Teen, College, Creampie) would most likely primarily show Caucasian stars.

One reason for this is that "ebony" gets split with "black", whereas "asian" isn't strongly split by anything else.

Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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'…

"...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..." That's an interesting question. It would be illustrative to get the data for that. My own wager would be that it is slightly higher... just as searches by whites on 'Asian' is slightly higher in California than it is in ... say ... North Dakota…

> My own suspicion is that it's probably more a matter of simply close 'proximity' combined with the natural difficulty of starting those relationships in the first place.

I see what you're saying, and I think you'd likely be correct. Would be interesting to see how high of a difference that might potentially be, would need the hard data instead of an infographic unfortunately :/

Re: Porn Site Breaks Down Searches By Country

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post #17

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 they may be based on very small sample sizes.

or straight peruvians simply use a different search engine for their porn.
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