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Pornhub released its annual "Year in Review" - https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2022-year-in-review
Some observations:
The big one... transgenderism had a major bump this year. It's now the 7th most popular category worldwide, and number 1 in Brazil. Perhaps even more surprisingly, "“FTM” (female to male) searches were 8 times more popular than “MTF” (male to female)." Big caveat - the discrepancy might be due to search terms since "trans" and "shemale" default to "MTF."
Asian search terms have an insane dominance. Among the top 6 most searched terms are "Asian," "Japanese," "Pinay," and "hentai" (if that counts).
For the SOME LARGE NUMBER of years in a row, hentai is one of the top search terms. Is the 4chan meme that 2d girls better than 3d true?
The search terms by age group is kind of hilarious. Zoomers love virtual reality, cosplay, and hentai (unreality/escape from reality). Millennials love Asians, tattoos on girls, feet, and transgenders. Gen X is just as degenerate, only the boomers like good old honest red blooded smut like handjobs, "babe," and small tits.
One big caveat over the entire "Year in Review" is that Pornhub banned unverified amateur content a few years ago, so niche searches are probably marginalized.
The other even bigger caveat is that there is definitely stat manipulation at play. "Teen" is mysteriously absent from the entire page, even though it has to be among the most common searches. Same for "step-sister," "rape," and probably a few other taboo subjects.
(I realize I'm very late to this thread)
"Rape" is absent because it's not on PornHub. If you search "rape" on PornHub, you get this message (abridged for brevity):
At least the message is better than it used to be—IIRC last time I looked, if you searched "rape", you'd get a message telling you to seek therapy.
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