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This Is What Women Really Want In Porn

Confession: I'm addicted to Pornhub Insights, the blog where free porn mogul PornHub publishes traffic trends and other audience analytics revealing what porn people are consuming most voraciously. In their most recent collaboration with RedTube and The Daily Beast, they expanded on their "What Women Want" series to delve into what type of porn women are searching for, which only makes up about 24 percent of their overall traffic (but is irrefutably on the rise).

One of the studies in this round of analytics looked at Search Term Growth among women from 2014 to 2015, and it revealed a totally unsurprising (but cue the pearl-clutching anyway) trend: women were way more into searching for hardcore porn than softcore or "romantic" scenes. Which like, duh. Of course women are interested in varied expressions of sexuality. We're not exclusively turned on by gauzy cabana locations and strategically dick-free shots.

Here's a rundown of the top 20 search terms that grew among women last year, how much they grew by, and my highly official scientific analysis of "what women want."

1. Real Celebrity Sex Tape +1020%

This analysis is technically offered by Pornhub Insights, but with the advent of Kim Kardashian's Paper Mag cover came a bump in search term interest in her amateur sex tape exploits.

2. Real Massage Cam +1014%

Ugh, we are so desperate for massages that WE'RE LOOKING FOR THEM IN PORN? Bottom line: we need more partner massages IRL. Pro-tip: when you find your missing puzzle piece who likes to receive massages as much as you love being tactile, or who loves to give massages as much as you like being indulged, hold onto them very, very tightly.

3. Man Eating Pussy +589%Guy Eating Girl Out +353%Hardcore Pussy Licking +228%Guy Fingering Pussy +185%

These get grouped together because they're mostly oral, but all highly vulva-focused, acts. No surprise that these rank high in porn search terms considering how infrequently we see implied female gratification represented on-screen.

4. Young Black Teen +507%Black Thugs F*cking Raw +269%

Empire's Camilla (Naomi Campbell) had this market cornered in her cougar/protégé fling with Hakeem Lyon. So, if you're squirming a little in your seat reading such graphic, racially-charged porn search terms, then it's best to check your privilege. Think about how infrequently people of color are represented in porn in ways that don't fall back on black-guy-having-sex-with-white-lady "Interracial" stereotypes. Women of color are obviously thirsting for diverse and complex representation, too. Now think about how often mainstream porn (and other media) does fall back on those stereotypes, and about how healing it might be to work out a "black thugs f*cking raw" fantasy or fetish inside the safe, private space of you and your porn consumption.

5. World's Biggest Cock +499%Monster Cock Tiny Teen +219%

Sometimes, you just gotta let your inner Size Queen out and not be ashamed of her. Related: don't you wish Monster Cock, Tiny Teen was the hot YA romance novel of your high school years? No? Just me? OK.

6. Lesbian Tribbing +480%Lesbian Mom Seduces +319%Lesbian Seduces +248%Lesbian Scissoring +213%

OK, so obviously, women of all genders and sexual orientations really love lesbian porn. This gets attributed to heightened focus on female pleasure, more sexual fluidity among females, a detached eroticization of fantasies they don't have a desire to pursue in real life (like dudes loving the the "porn starlet" look in their porn, but not on women they're hooking up with IRL), and a whole host of other reasons people love to obsess over. I just don't think it's all that mysterious. People experiencing pleasure is hot. Women are less squicked out by the idea of non-heteronormative sex. The end.

7. Step Sister Caught +371%F*ck Me Daddy +196%

Yup. Yes. Cosign on age play. Taboos are hot! And thanks to the patriarchy, women probably experience a little more yearning to feel ~*~young and fine~*~ again than they're probably strictly comfortable with. Porn is here to give you a space to work out that kink. (And your partners might be willing to help our, too!)

8. Hard Rough F*ck +304%Fucked Hard Screaming +281%Hard Fast F*ck +127%

Yo, women love them some rough sex. Anyone who thinks we can't handle or aren't interested in the spitting, pounding, screaming, choking goodness that PornHub has to offer is sorely mistaken.

9. Romantic Sex +125%

All the way down at the bottom of the list, proving that flooding the "porn for women" market with softcore, plot-driven sap is fueled by a major misconception in what women actually want. (But if you want to watch romantic porn, that's cool too! Lucky for you, there's tons of it geared especially towards you.)

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