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.