Taking a moment to cut through the negativity and recognizing a great weekend in Memphis.
• [University of Memphis] football winning to a national ESPN audience
• Great weather for Cooper-Young Festival
• Brewfest
• Win by 901FC
(Bonus latest mayoral poll finally doesn’t have Willie in the lead.)
Porn blocked
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Some Memphis-area Pornhub users reported their browsers were blocked from the site over the weekend. The site cut access to the entire state after Republican lawmakers required new, strict age verification protocols for pornography sites. The block seems to have bled over state lines in places.
Marsha, Marsha?
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Credit where it’s due. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) pushed hard on Federal Bureau of Prisons director Colette Peters last week to fix problems (like a leaky roof) at the federal prison in Memphis.
Tennessee’s top Pornhub search was “interracial” last year according to the porn site in its annual report.
Pornhub’s 2021 Year In Review offers insights into trends around the world that may be offering glimpses into cultures and people, especially when they think no one is looking. The report also shows how global events can affect its traffic. It was up when Facebook was out and it was down during Super Bowl 55, for example.
No information is available as to why Tennessee’s porn preference is “interracial.” No other state’s highest search term was “interracial.” In fact, no two states shared the same, highest-ranked search term.
Tennessee borders eight other states. So, let’s have a look at what our neighbors are searching for:
Missouri: hand job
Kentucky: threesome
Virginia: dirty talk
North Carolina: penis pump
Georgia: big ass
Alabama: ebony
Mississippi: furry
Arkansas: divorce
Arkansas has one of the highest divorce rates in the United States, and ‘divorce’ is their most common relative search.”
Pornhub Year In Review
Regional differences in porn are a thing, according to Pornhub.
“Our statisticians found that visitors from Alaska were more likely to search for ‘morning sex’, while those in Virgina like a bit of ‘dirty talk’,” reads the report. “Visitors from North Dakota are more likely to search for a ‘quickie,’ which may be why their state has one of the shortest visit durations. Arkansas has one of the highest divorce rates in the United States, and ‘divorce’ is their most common relative search.”
Last year, visits to the site were down by an average of 29 seconds. Colorado saw the biggest drop of 39 seconds for an average visit of eight minutes and 51 seconds. But this doesn’t mean “everyone got 29 seconds more efficient at masturbating” last year, Pornhub explained. The decrease could be explained by internet speed or the efficiency of the site’s search algorithm.
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However, Tennessee ranked high on Pornhub’s list of longest visits. That is, Tennesseans stayed on the site longer than most. Tennessee ranked eighth for longest visits with an average time of 10 minutes and 34 seconds. Wyoming (where the most-searched term was “hardcore”) was tops here with an average time of 11 minutes and 33 seconds. Southeastern states dominated the top 10 here with only Wyoming and Missouri out of the area.
Remember the October 4th outage of Facebook and Instagram? Pornhub does. The site saw a 10.5 percent spike in traffic while the social media sites were down.
Remember Eurovision’s 2021 finale? Pornhub does. Traffic slumped all over the Eastern Hemisphere, especially in Malta where traffic was down 34 percent.
Remember Super Bowl 55? Pornhub does. U.S. traffic dropped by about 21 percent on that Sunday last February, especially in Florida and Missouri as people there tuned in to watch their home teams play.
As for the U.S., “hentai” took over as the top most-search-for Pornhub term, eclipsing the term “lesbian.” Here’s how Pornhub describes “hentai.”
“In Japanese culture, hentai can refer to any sort of sexual fetish,” reads the report. “But around the world it most often describes the pornographic form of anime, a style of Japanese film and television animation.
“Hundreds of thousands of hentai videos can be found on Pornhub, including professional productions, homemade animations made by fans and 3D generated scenes.”
The term also became the most-searched in the world, Pornhub said, and it appeared in every country’s top 10 list. To explain the appeal, Dr. Laurie Betito, clinical psychologist, sex therapist and director of the Pornhub Sexual Wellness Center, said “cartoons are more fantastical than regular porn.”
“They may offer more visual stimulation in terms of movements, angles, colors, and facial expressions,” she said. “Because it’s not real, it can go further, with less constraints that reality offers. Hentai porn also tends to have more of a storyline and people seem to be more and more drawn to context.”
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“Harley Quinn” was the most searched movie series or character in 2021, followed by “Wonder Woman,” “Harry Potter,” “Star Wars,” and “Black Widow.” The top most-searched TV shows were “The Simpsons,” “Teen Titans,” and “Scooby Doo.” The most-searched video game titles were “Fortnite,” “Minecraft,” and “Overwatch.”
Pornhub visitors watched mainly on phones, mostly on Android devices, and mostly using the Chrome internet browser. Most desktop views were done on devices using Windows. PlayStation beat Xbox as the most-used gaming console for Pornhub views.
As for generations, Generation Z searched most for “lesbian.” Generation Y searched for “Asian.” Gen X likes the “cartoon” category (might explain the Scooby Doo searches). Boomers searched most for “handjobs,” ”mature,” and “vintage” in that order.
