Everyone has watched porn at least once! Don't lie, we don't judge. Porn has a lot of interesting, unique genres and videos which range from a pizza man delivering a pizza and being lured into sex, a plumber cleaning some "pipes", or Overwatch characters doing incredibly dirty things to each other! In all honesty, it's a pretty creative industry for people who just bump uglies.
Every year, PornHub releases stats from the previous year showing all the popular search terms, platforms people viewed their porn on, and much more. Since we don't really cover porn (and there's also a lot of stats released), we're only going to cover certain topics that are relevant to what we cover.
The first stat we'll talk about is the consoles and gaming platforms that saw the most porn usage. The console war continues, but this may be a stat some gamers won't want to boast when they're defending their console of choice. PlayStation saw the most traffic with 53% users, Xbox came in second at 34%, Wii at 7%, Nintendo 3DS at 5% (interesting choice…), and although Sony has mostly abandoned the PlayStation Vita a small number of sexual deviants haven't.
Next, we have the most popular video game characters searched in 2016. The gaming industry has been known to sexualize select female characters including Lara Croft who tops this list. Some find it really controversial but that doesn't stop millions of people searching up porn starring those characters! Five Overwatch characters make the list, including Tracer, a character notorious to controversy in 2016 due to sexual poses and a lesbian backstory.
Speaking of Overwatch, a lot of people REALLY wanted to see their favorite heroes from the popular multiplayer shooter in some sexual situations. The number of searches peaked between the game's public beta and the first few weeks of the game's official release. Even months after the game released, searches continued to pour in for the game. It's hard to be surprised by the popularity after the famous porn production company, Brazzers, made an official X-rated Overwatch porn parody.
You can view just a couple countries that were really into Overwatch down below.
2016 was really big for nerds who enjoy movies. We got Batman v Superman, Captain America: Civil War, Suicide Squad, and a new Star Wars. We were pretty spoiled, but some felt that some of those movies didn't satisfy them in certain ways… so they took to PornHub! A lot of movie/comic characters were searched for in 2016 including Spider-Man, Batman, and the most popular appears to be Harley Quinn who made her live-action debut in Suicide Squad. Joker's girlfriend managed to surpass all the other characters with over 10 million searches!
The rise of Pokemon GO also gave people an interest in what monsters that fight each other would look like in the bedroom. The game that was given the "Best Family Game of 2016" award at The Game Awards this year also holds a high position on the famous adult film website! This isn't surprising as we reported about how the film was climbing the metaphorical search ladder when the mobile game released.
The last stat we'll talk about is the large use of porn in VR. VR really took off in 2016 with several new headsets being released, including the first ever VR headset for consoles. Of course, with technology like this, it's only natural to be curious what porn would be like! Some companies are even creating accessories for you to use when you watch VR porn! Many porn companies have started making VR exclusive videos to satisfy the growing audience (no pun intended).
If you're curious to see more stats from other countries or other topics, you can go to Pornhub's official website.
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