Following Ann is Riley Reid, who also shows up in more than 1,000 lesbian clips (and has 771 million views). Lisa Ann, who shows up in over 1,000 lesbian videos on Pornhub alone, was the most viewed performer of the last 10 years, with more than 1 billion views on her scenes. “That’s a considerable change in visitors,” Pornhub Insights notes, “as Sunday night is one of the most popular times for people to visit.”)Īlso contributing to the sapphic searching is the popularity of the porn stars themselves.
(Very quickly though, Pornhub also analyzed the impact "Game of Thrones" had on its page views and found that the season 7 premiere correlated with a 4.5 percent drop in traffic. If you’re curious, “MILF” is the number one searched term for men, followed very closely by everything stepfamily related - including “step mom” (number 1), “stepsister,” “mom,” and “stepmom and son.” We could perhaps blame "Game of Thrones" for this, but that is another article. And perhaps unsurprisingly, women are 218 percent more likely to search “female friendly.” Women are also 369 percent more likely to search “pussy licking” than men are. Interestingly, women were also more interested in “ebony lesbians eating pussy” (906 percent higher than men) “lesbian squirt” (321 percent higher) and “lesbian strap-on” (272 percent). Men also searched for lesbian porn, but compared to men, women were far more likely to polish the pearl to, well, someone named Pearl. Other similar terms women searched for included “lesbian scissoring,” “lesbian seduces straight” and “lesbian threesome” - basically anything girl-on-girl would do. Though Pornhub does not screen for sexual orientation (its algorithm may be good, but so far it can’t peer into our identities, yet), the term “lesbian” reigned supreme in women’s searches across the board. Some queer women are also watching, surely, but the numbers are too high to assume that they make up the minority of viewers. The number often thrown around these days is that one out of three women are looking at porn, which means a lot of straight-identified ladies are jerkin’ to the Birken(stocks). What accounts for this domination (pardon the pun) of lesbian porn? Well, partly this is due to the rise of female porn viewers in general, of all sexual orientations. In Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, “lesbian” was also number one, and in the U.K., “lesbian scissoring” and “lesbian seduces straight” leaped to the top 10 in searches. In another data dump, Pornhub’s 2016 Year in Review, worldwide, “lesbian” was the most-searched term, and “lesbian scissoring” jumped 28 spots to make the top 20 overall. But from 2015 on, the lesbians have been unstoppable. It was replaced briefly by teen in 2011, then MILF from 2012-2014. From 2007 to 2010, amateur was the most popular category. Following behind girl-girl action are MILF, amateur and teen. The most surprising takeaway from all of the reams of data (aside from the video game Overwatch finagling its way into the porn canon, jumping 452 spots in 2016!) is how lesbian porn has dominated the site for three years running, and is the most popular category of all time. If you watched every video on Pornhub’s site, back-to-back, nonstop, it would take 173 years. Seventy-five million people visit the site each day, and it’s the 40th most trafficked website in the world.
Not long ago, Pornhub celebrated its 10th anniversary by releasing 10 years of data, a riveting look at the habits and desires of porn viewers. This article originally appeared on AlterNet.