Big Beautiful Data

For today’s installation of Pornhub Insights, our team of statisticians have paired up with Mic.com for a look at changing trends in body types. The concept of the ‘ideal body’ is one that has been quite fluid over the past centuries. When we look back at paintings dating to the Renaissance era, fuller figures are clearly revered and celebrated as beautiful subjects. Fast forward to the mid 1800’s and waists are being tightly cinched down to tiny sizes with corsets, a trend which has interestingly reemerged recently in the midst of the current Kardashian-endorsed waist training fad. On the other hand, 2015 has arguably been a major year for body positivity. Continue reading “Big Beautiful Data”

A Rod By Any Other Name

Are you a dick? Or maybe you’re more of a cock person. Either way, everyone has their preferred term of endearment for what is more clinically called the penis. In today’s installment of Pornhub Insights, our trusty team of statisticians is diving deep into some big, hard data to get to the bottom of how people prefer to refer to the phallus. Focusing on the two most popular dicknames nicknames ‘dick’ and ‘cock,’ we’re coming at you with the numbers that show exactly how the nation pays lip service to everyone’s favorite organ. Let’s get into some dong-themed nomenclature!
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