Women's Favorite Smut Searches Show Straight Porn Still Isn't Cutting It

The answer to the age-old question “What do women really want?” is finally here, at least according to Pornhub: women want lesbians, threesomes, and squirting. And if you could, say, combine all three into a lesbian threesome squirtfest, would that finally make us happy?

Pornhub’s latest insights post involves looking at the latest in search data for the ladies, with some comparison to their last look back in September 2014. According to their research, those top three search terms are still alive and kickin’. They write:

These have not changed since our first look at this female-focused kind of data, though terms like ‘massage’ and ‘teen’ have moved down the ranks, and have been replaced by terms like ‘black,’ ‘cartoon,’ and ‘lesbian scissoring’ which all now rank considerably higher. Overall, lesbian content is clearly the most popular, with terms like ‘lesbian seduces’ also ranking here, with several ebony, group and step-relative themed searches also ranking throughout.

Surely this is women being incredibly tuned into hot new trends in cartoons where black lesbians scissor. Unlike Millennials, whose porn tastes we recently covered, women are not quite so beholden to the incestuous sexual dynamics offered by step-family members. As you can see from the graph below, gangbanging, as well as extreme gangbanging, lesbian seduces, and Japanese, were all far more popular search terms.

But let’s get down to brass tacks here, in other words, pussy eating, which saw a big increase. Pornhub found that:

Overall, searches involving cunnilingus like ‘man eating pussy,’ ‘guy eating girl out,’ and ‘hardcore pussy eating’ saw increases of 589%, 353% and 228% respectively and terms involving hardcore or rough sex like ‘hard rough fuck’ and ‘fucked hard screaming’ saw growth of around 300%.

Combine this with the fact that the top two most searched categories for women are lesbian and gay (male), and you’ve got an interesting result here. Why would women, the majority of whom are hetero, be more interested in lesbian and gay porn than the wealth of straight porn out there? Maybe because straight porn still isn’t cutting it.

Those were the various theories floated last year when results found a similar trend: Women watch porn, and they watch a lot of lesbian porn. Those theories include that it’s more sensual, more readily available than so-called female-friendly porn, it’s a great way to imagine a fantasy you might have no interest in in real life (lots of women who enjoy lesbian porn say they aren’t necessarily attracted to women in reality), but everyone’s money is largely on the fact that lesbian porn is simply more female-centric than straight porn. How? It features a lot of foreplay and extended pussy eating. Crucial tit attention, fingering, and other acts which many women are, it’s safe to assume, not getting anywhere near enough of, and which hetero porn ain’t providing for long enough.

And crucially, that actual men probably aren’t providing either. Not only are women not orgasming enough, sometimes the work it takes to reach the big O simply isn’t worth it. And let’s not forget what happened when a woman declared herself done with blowjobs, and decided to let men eat her out and get her off without returning the favor. Selfish was the most polite name she was called.

Lesbian porn lets women dive into that muff a little bit more and simply enjoy an act they are deprived of far too often and may have complicated reasons for not asking for. But make no mistake: Women want their pussies eaten out. A lot. One, it feels good. Two, it may be the only way to orgasm for a lot of women (or there are also women who simply can’t orgasm at all).

And then there’s just the idea that women have a more fluid sexuality and lesbian porn for straight women is an easier bet than gay porn for straight men. This is just me jerking off a theory, but as women, we’re forced to view ourselves and other women so often through the lens of male desire. Culturally we are conditioned to see other women as objects so often, and internalize a patriarchal standard for beauty that we are free to appreciate the beauty of other women fully without feeling that it any way contradicts our desire (if we are heterosexual). And given the hetero male enthusiasm for faux-lesbian makeouts which they don’t read as rejection of them since it tends to be geared for their pleasure, it’s simply easier for heterosexual women to express attraction to women (within limits) without risking the alienation and taboo of being considered gay, due to rampant homophobia about gay men.

That said, women also are still way into gay male porn! (The third most viewed category after gay male porn is “big dick.”) As The Daily Dot theorized last year, this is for much the same reasons women like lesbian porn: There are fewer degrading acts featuring women, because there aren’t any women, i.e., “no chance of seeing some poor eastern European girl gag on a giant phallus,” and possibly it just looks like everyone in lesbian or gay male porn is having more fun.

In more boring results, Kim Kardashian is still the most searched-for porn star, and women search for James Deen way more than men. And there were some interesting demographics—the Philippines and Brazil produce 35 percent of women porn watchers, while Japan holds it steady at 17 percent.

Here’s a fun little cocktail party fact: in the U.S. specifically, Southern women watch more porn than their counterparts elsewhere. Is it because of more retrograde attitudes toward kinky sex? Boredom? Something else?

But don’t worry, women are still interested in exploring taboos. Searches for “daddy” are up by 240 percent over male users, compared to 190 percent last year. Which means we still know how to keep it dirty—and dysfunctional.