the worst thing about this is that the VPNs people use to get around it will mess up the data. we may never know which state really looked up flogging the most on valentine's day :(
Apparently Louisiana was “smart” and allows a third party to do this for them, called AllpassTrust. Pornhub is fine with this type of verification, which is why LA is the only southern state here (GA isn’t southern enough).
I'm surprised Indiana is on there, unless people are submitting their IDs. I personally get my porn fix from a nice young man on an electric scooter every Thursday.
It's probably no accident that those and the other two with "wedding" and "husband" are all northern states. It's still winter right now, which means that they're still getting really short days, which makes people feel sad.
Seeing hugging and cuddling makes me curious. Are there videos of people just cuddling on those kinds of platforms? That seems really wholesome unless it's awkward naked cuddles.
It also surprises me that so many of the top searches include things I feel are labeled as kinks. Aren't they things that only small demographics enjoy, if so many people enjoy it is maybe wrong to perceive it that way?
What's awkward about naked cuddles? As a queer woman it's probably my favourite thing to do with a partner. Skin to skin contact is just really healing.
Maybe it's just lack of experience, I suppose with certain people it wouldn't be too bad. The hair might be annoying as not all of it as soft as on my head but I think I'd be uncomfortable.
On your second paragraph, notice its "relative searches" which it then explains in the subheading. Not top searches.
If debauchery like "hand-holding" got 0.5% of searches in one state while in other states it got 0.1% of searches, and there wasnt as much a difference for other terms, thats the top relative search.
But it doesnt tell us anything about how many people actually searched for it.
Man, the number of places pornhub has pulled out of (hehehe) is nuts. Georgia is the only surprise on here, since Louisiana has some government program there using to stay live.
They're like the Luxottica of porn, hundreds of brands all owned by one place. Even if pornhub left, the vast majority of all their other sites are still available in any given state.
Kinda surprised, I'd think anyone into watersports would call it watersports. I guess I overestimate how much the average kink porn watcher knows about the kinks they watch
Why would the list be done by early afternoon? Wouldn't it make more sense to post the top searches of valentine's day after they are all in? For all I know people looking at porn before noon could be in the minority and these results would be completely overshadowed by later searches.
I always wonder what the actual statistical significance of these maps are. They always seem random, and it'd make sense if it's essentially the same mix of a little of everything everywhere.
I believe the main purpose of releasing them is to generate publicity for their company that they might not be able to get otherwise in more mainstream media. Much like how the legal brothels in Nevada put out press releases about how they’re offering free services to first responders who helped on a recent disaster or something like that. It gets people talking about them and spreads awareness about their offerings.
Much like how the legal brothels in Nevada put out press releases about how they’re offering free services to first responders who helped on a recent disaster or something like that.
Interesting, I hadn't heard of that. But yes, they aren't academics and don't need their data to actually say anything.
"More often" could be by one search in a total set of 1,000,000, which basically is never going to be statistically significant - it could just be random chance, and not an actual trend. That goes in both absolute and relative terms.
I find it mildly interesting that, aside from California, no state was a leader in a "common" porn. By that I mean go look at the top 100 videos/categories. No state took the lead in blowjob or step-anything.
This leads me to think that they were filtered out. I would say mathematically similar between states, except pornhub has released exactly that data on numerous occasions. But if they didn't filter out anal, then how much more popular did it have to be?
I mean, there's also a question of how they're clustering searches. I'm guessing "hugging" and "Hugging" didn't get their own separate category, but hugging all on it's own is very specific for porn. If small categories outnumber big ones and they're essentially filled at random, you'd expect that the biggest outlier would be a small category.
Yeah. IDK what is meant by a P value but I agree that I suspect the methodology used to create this is designed to make the data more interesting than it really is.
As in, how much more frequently is "enema" searched for in Alaska than elsewhere, and are there more vanilla terms like "college" which occur more frequently in Alaska than elsewhere.
The map indicates the most popular searches from the IP addresses within each state. Or at least I think it does. It seems a bit odd that something like "intimate" could ever be more popular than like bj or something