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”
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Up in Smoke
What’s your secret taboo? Special kink? Recently, the Pornhub statisticians have been taking a closer look at some of the most popular niches among our users, while examining and teasing out some trends within these groups. We’ve looked into BDSM as well as how the 50 Shades of Grey film affected these types of searches on our site. This particular installment in on smoking. While the smoking fetish is certainly a popular one on Pornhub, our findings quickly revealed that in addition to a strong interest in or fetishization of the act of smoking itself, there appears to be many marijuana affectionados among our users. As such, for this special collab with High Times, we’ve divided this post into two parts; the first focusing on the wonderful world of weed-related porn searches and the second honing in on general smoking-specific data. Let’s light it up! Continue reading “Up in Smoke”
Porn’s Favorite Platforms
You can’t always choose the ideal time to watch porn, so the Pornhub team works hard (often very hard) to ensure a pleasurable experience across all devices. Mobile traffic has grown significantly over the last few years, with over 60% of Pornhub users now coming from phones and tablets. The latest area of growth is game consoles, which allow users to enjoy Pornhub on their large screen TVs. Device usage varies worldwide, so we’ve prepared an interactive infographic to see how each country and region stacks up.
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