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Pornhub’s Stats On What Women Are Watching These Days Reveal Your 40s Are All About Double Penetration

Everyone is seen.

By now, we should all be long past the misconception that men are the only people watching porn. Women masturbate! And watch porn too!

In fact, in 2018 women made up 30% of Aussie visitors to Pornhub, and 29% of visitors worldwide. So we greatly appreciate it when Pornhub breaks down the specifics of exactly what porn women are watching and helps us to understand the different interests and fantasy kinks of women around the world.

To honour International Women’s Day in their own way, that’s exactly what Pornhub has done through their insights page. The report doesn’t specify what time period the stats have been gathered from, but we can assume this is just a snapshot of recent trends.

The most obvious global trend to note is that lesbian is by far the most popular category of videos viewed by women – it’s actually 151% more popular with women when compared to men. We’ve discussed before why it is that lesbian porn is so popular with women, so this comes as no huge surprise. 

The stats also delve in to what’s popular with women in each country, when relatively compared to the rest of the world. So with Aussie women, the categories ‘Asian’, ‘Popular With Women’, and ‘Rough Sex’ are significantly more popular than elsewhere around the globe.

But arguably the most interesting part of Pornhub’s report is the relative popularity of categories according to age groups of women. The statisticians have given us a very basic look at how porn viewership differs among women of different age brackets, and the results are not something we could have guessed:

18 to 24: Hentai (+81%)

25 to 34: Tattooed Women (+32%)

35 to 44: Double Penetration (+29%)

45 to 54: Mature (+39%)

55 to 64: Vintage (+78%)

65+: Handjob (+143%)

35 – 44 year old women getting around double penetration porn videos is not a kink trend I expected to see, but I have total respect for it. Maybe you just get to a certain age, and you need more?

Meanwhile I didn’t even know ‘vintage’ porn was a thing and will soon be looking further into this for completely journalistic reasons, of course.

Netflix Show Sex Education Is Actually Sabotaging Real Sex Ed Online In Spite Of Good Intentions

The more popular the show gets, the bigger the block to get to the real stuff.

Netflix’s recently-released series Sex Education is a refreshing new take on the teen show genre that finally offers a progressive representation of a diversity of characters and narratives. It makes sense that it soared to such extreme popularity so quickly – it’s excellent.

Unfortunately, while the show brings into the spotlight the desire among teens for clarity on topics of sex and puberty, it’s also making it harder to access real sex education content online.

The show’s title, Sex Education, is a play on the unofficial sex therapy service that the main character offers his fellow students. Clever. Cute. Likely seemed like a very harmless choice.

But now in the world of the wide web, the term ‘sex education’ signifies Netflix’s TV show first, and the actual resources that people in need of actual sex education seek out, second.

When you Google ‘sex education’, the entire first page of results is dedicated to the show, and it continues to dominate most results for the first three pages and permeates even further.

The results are similar when sex education is searched on YouTube.

Google and YouTube are the two main search platforms that people use to seek out the answers to sex ed-related questions, and it’s unfortunate that a byproduct of the show’s popularity is burying that information.

With the dogmatic resistance to improve inadequate sex education programmes in schools, the obstacles between young people and sufficient resources are already taking their toll.

Whether this outcome is something that Netflix considered with this show is impossible to say, but it definitely signals the need for more accessible sex ed beyond the self-driven internet search.

People have a lot of questions, and if the answers are being buried beneath pop culture content with great SEO (search engine optimisation) then we need to be proactive with solutions.

There should be places people know they can have their sex ed questions answered, because Google and YouTube results are a muddied mess.

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