Men’s Health asked Pornhub’s statisticians to look into the popularity of our more extreme video categories. It’s hard to say what makes a particular video “extreme”. What one person might consider “hardcore” might seem like perfectly standard sex to someone else. None-the-less, Pornhub has several categories that might be considered extreme, including the three we’re looking at in this edition of Insights: Hardcore, Fetish and Rough-Sex.
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Bigfoot Erotica
The last few years have taught us to expect the unexpected when it comes to politics in the United States. We’re pretty open minded here at Pornhub, but none of us were expecting that Bigfoot pornography would be at the center of a contentious race for a U.S. House of Representatives seat in Virginia.
When a Democratic candidate accused her Republican opponent of being “a devotee of Bigfoot erotica”, it caused tens of thousands of curious people to visit Pornhub to see if such a thing actually exists. Searches containing “bigfoot” shot up over 8000% on July 30th. Perhaps more unexpected, was that hundreds of “devotees” were searching for bigfoot porn every day, even before it was thrust into the political spotlight.
As for Virginia, residents there are 38% more likely to search for “bigfoot” compared to the U.S. average.
Kiara Mia Searches
TMZ captured 49ers Quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo on a Beverly Hills date with busty Pornstar Kiara Mia (NSFW). Kiara is one of Pornhub’s most popular latina pornstars, with over 62 million views of her videos. After news of her date hit the internet on July 19th, she has racked up over 200,000 searches in just 24 hours — a massive 2309% increase over her daily average!
2018 World Cup Final
The 2018 World Cup finals wrapped up on Sunday, July 15th as France beat Croatia with a final score of 4 to 2. Just as we saw with our previous 2018 World Cup Insights, traffic to Pornhub can drop significantly when fans tune in to watch their country’s team play. Mashable checked in to see if the final match saw even bigger traffic drops from France, Croatia and elsewhere in the world.
Fortnite Season 5
Since the launch of Fortnite Battle Royal in September 2017, searches containing “fortnite” have grown steadily on Pornhub.
As detailed in our earlier Fortnite Insights, searches had previously peaked on March 15 after Drake played the game live on Twitch. Since then, Fortnite has remained in Pornhub’s Top 20 searches, with an average of over 100,000 unique searches every day!
July 12 began Season 5, so Forbes asked Pornhub’s statisticians to see if the new updates had any effect on searches.
World Cup 2018: Country vs Country
The 2018 World Cup kicked off June 14th and because the tournament lasts a full month, it gave Pornhub’s statisticians and our friends at Metro UK a treasure-trove of data to study from all over the world. After the first match began, searches for both “football” and “soccer” doubled and continue to remain much higher than average.
Search growth certainly shows that Pornhub fans have an increased interest in soccer, but where does that interest go when their country’s team is playing a match? Are people willing to give up Pornhub time in favor of game time? And what countries have the biggest fans who are most willing to give up porn to see their teams play? Read on to find out!