Top 10 Internet Search Terms About Sex: STUDY (UPDATE)

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A massive study claims to have identified patterns in Internet searches that correspond--and offer insight into--sexual desires.

Co-authors Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam examined erotic content online from around the world, including a billion anonymous Web searches, a million pornographic websites, a million erotic videos and more. The pair have turned their research into a book titled A Billion Wicked Thoughts.

"Sex therapists haven't known which interests are common and which are rare," Ogas told the New York Post. "We probably now know more than ever before."

Using search engine Dogpile to crunch data from Google, Bing and Yahoo, the authors ranked the most popular search terms relating to sex. According to the Post, the top-ten terms are as follows:

1. Youth (13.5%)
2. Gay (4.7%)
3. MILFs (4.3%)
4. Breasts (4%)
5. Cheating wives (3.4%)
6. Vaginas (2.8%)
7. Penises (2.4%)
8. Amateurs
9. Mature
10. Animation

(Note: A previous version of this top ten list included "butts" (.9%) and "cheerleaders" (.1%) as the 9th and 10th most popular queries, respectively. Ogas clarified that "butts" and "cheerleaders" are the 21st and 79th most popular searches, respectively, and that "amateurs," "mature" and "animation" are the 8th, 9th, and 10th most popular searches.)

The authors also discuss trends among homosexuals and hetrosexuals, as well as among males and females.

For example, straight males enjoy a wide variety of erotica, including sites featuring transsexuals and elderly women. The study also found that both gay and straight men favor chests, buttocks and feet (in that order).

As for the differences between men and women, the researchers found that men are generally easier to turn on than women.

"Women need to feel comfortable and safe and desired as well as physically attracted," Ogas told The Daily Beast.

You can read a summary of the study's findings at the New York Post.

Comments

[Jinjifore Cleveland]

09:35 PM on 05/07/2011

I have another search term to share: Surveyfail

http://tinyurl.com/3zekkql

I'd suggest the link to the Fanlore wiki (http://fanlore.org/wiki/SurveyFail). It has lots of links to information on the lack of science and research that Ogas and Gaddam put into this topic.

Basically, Drs. Ogas and Gaddam decided on a conclusion that they felt would sell a book, then set out to find "facts" to prop it up. If any actual data they discovered contradicted their foregone conclusion, they ignored it, dismissed it, or blamed it on their "research" subjects. As for the data source of their eventual publication, I don't think I need to elaborate on how easy it is to manipulate internet search statistics.

[Niet]

01:28 AM on 04/28/2011

Yeah right HP... This is the Internet we're talking about. Nobody believes the top ten are anywhere near that tame. lol.

[Morgantheaxe]

10:36 PM on 04/27/2011

Ok I find it really really creepy, and I say this as someone who is guilty as sin of looking at porn on line, that "youth" and "gay" made #1 and #2 on the list. I mean REALLY????

[EllaMode]

02:29 PM on 05/02/2011

"Youth" disturbed me. So does the "youth" porn, and I mean the legal variety. It's gross.

[Rex Devious]

08:16 PM on 04/27/2011

I'm surprised that the people who need to use search engines for this wouldn't use euphemisms.

Unless the people doing the study had to alter the supposed search terms in order to get the article published, which frankly seems a lot more likely than anyone, let alone most people, trying to find pornography by typing "breasts" or "vagina" into a search engine. And that would also explain interpreting the word "Youth" as a sexual search term.

[emerson7]

11:03 PM on 04/27/2011

my guess is that the article is folding the more colourful and saucier terms into those that are a bit more polite for printing.

[iRock]

03:47 PM on 04/27/2011

The fact the "gay" is #2 on the list means, to me at least, that there are a lot of straight men who are, let's just say, curious?

[Notsosurearewe]

03:40 PM on 04/27/2011

Those numbers only add up to .. lemmee see.. 33.1%

[wilray]

07:42 PM on 04/27/2011

So the top ten account for 33% of the searches.

[Notsosurearewe]

09:40 PM on 04/27/2011

Makes you wonder just how many searches are out there, doesn't it?

[The Mighty Pathos]

03:30 PM on 04/27/2011

People really use the words "breasts" and "vagina" when they search???

[blacksmithn]

01:11 PM on 04/27/2011

What, no lesbians?!

[-me-]

09:14 PM on 04/27/2011

obviously the data is flawed, ........ we can't be the only ones watching that stuff.... and i've got other seach terms that have yielded very interesting results that i don't see? no need to go into them here though. ;~)

[EllaMode]

02:31 PM on 05/02/2011

Wait - no one searched for lesbians?! I was assuming you were speaking of lesbian searchers, but maybe you meant what I had just written, too. Hard to believe lesbian "stuff" wasn't more highly searched.

[ruscle]

12:36 PM on 04/27/2011

",,,the researchers found that men are generally easier to turn on than women."

We needed researches to find this out?

[Brady68]

08:52 AM on 04/27/2011

youth? thats just wrong

[JoeGdr]

11:13 AM on 04/27/2011

So is "animation."

[Casey Aaron Tomoe Dailey]

03:45 PM on 04/27/2011

Hentai is a really big industry, but is more geared towards anime (Japanese animation) fans.

We've all had a fantasy or two about an actor/actress in a movie/show, and the same applies for anime fans, except their attraction of choice lies outside the scope of reality. Not really that wrong.

Youth, on the other hand... in reality it is, in fantasy, no. There's plenty of sites catering to fans of the "barely legal" erotica, with actresses/actors from 18-25 (usually), it's only okay as long as that fantasy stays a fantasy.

Essentially ANY fantasy is okay. As long as it remains that way, if it happens to be dangerous or illegal. 'Nuff said.

[Sai Gaddam]

08:19 PM on 04/26/2011

The list was misquoted from our book. BUTTS is actually the 21st most popular search, and CHEERLEADERS are the 79th most popular search. What she describes as "Blocked out in the book" was actually an intentional whitespace break used to indicate that there was a nonconsecutive jump in the ranking--from #7 to #21.

[paulsays]

08:10 PM on 04/26/2011

The Daily Breast?

[ruscle]

12:35 PM on 04/27/2011

I believe that already exists. But it just attracts a bunch of boobs.

[FTracy3]

07:08 PM on 04/26/2011

My most common sex search on the internet is"puts-out" and "low" and "standards"

[Casey Aaron Tomoe Dailey]

03:47 PM on 04/27/2011

Works far better on dating sites.