Pornography search engine PornMD has released a country-by-country breakdown of top ten search terms (NSFW-ish), revealing some interesting online masturbatory habits, particularly amongst Chinese searchers.
The top 10 most commonly searched terms on porn sites over a 6 month period from China:
- Japanese
- Chinese
- Chinese (gay)
- Asian (gay)
- Japan
- Asian
- Japan (gay)
- Japanese (gay)
- China
- Korean
That Japanese porn, both gay and straight, is more popular than anything else is perhaps not surprising. Very little pornography is produced within mainland China (though some is), and China’s obsession with AV stars is well known. What’s interesting is the racial homogeneity of the top 10. Chinese porn watchers don’t appear to be very interested in anyone not of asian heritage, a mild xenophobia that’s shared with Korea and Japan, both of which also prefer to watch asians getting fucked or doing the fucking. Dr Katrien Jacobs, author of People’s Pornography: Sex and Surveillance on the Chinese Internet explains the sociological reasoning behind this:
Even though there is a wealth of genres and mind-boggling fetish products available from Japan, the cultures actually share a quite narrow-minded patriarchal view on sexual pleasure. This is perhaps the reason why Chinese men like Japanese stars, because they embody a feminine ideal of innocence and purity that is harder to find in Western porn. Western females in porn are considered to be too active and too “coarse” for Chinese men. Also, it works well for Chinese people, and specifically youngsters, to project liberation and otherness onto the “foreign” Japanese porn culture.
Of China’s neighbours, only India and Kazakhstan search for members of other races getting their sex on.
[Via: Buzzfeed, h/t: Eric J]
