Pop culture events like new movies and video games can often affect the type of porn that people search for. Super heroes in particular are as sexy as they are exciting, so it’s only natural that fans will want to fantasize about their favorite characters in sexual scenarios. As Super hero movies have grown in popularity over the last decade, so have high-budget porn parodies.
The recent release of the Avengers: Infinity War caused searches to increase 356% above their daily average. As we discovered in our 2017 Year in Review, “Avengers” was already a top ranking movie related search. We teamed up with CinemaBlend to see how the recent film release affected searches on the site.
Historically, DC characters like Harley Quin, Wonder Woman and Batman are searched more often on Pornhub than Marvel characters, but “Avengers” and it’s characters were searched over 6 million times in 2017.
The most searched Avengers character in 2018 is Black Widow, followed by Spiderman, Captain America and Hulk. Some characters are proportionately more popular with women, including Captain America, Black Panther, Thor and Loki.
Our statisticians found that women are 28% more likely to search for Avengers when compared to men, and millennials under the age of 35 are far more likely to search when compared to older age groups.
In previous Insights studies we found that super hero searches tend to increase at Halloween.