Men's Most Popular Pornography Searches Reveals Their Hidden Desires
Ladies, you better have bats flying out of your bits...
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Last week, we discussed why women were trading real men in for Romantasy fairy men and vibrators. Now, it's time to sip the truth serum on the other side.
Men are also ghosting heteronormative sex. Despite the drop in purity culture, Gen Z men are having less sex than previous generations. A recent study from the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington found that 1 in 3 young men are not having sex. And those are the ones admitting it.
But while sexlessness in men is on the rise, pornography usage shows no sign of slowing down. According to the Archives of Sexual Behavior, porn use has increased over three times (310%) between October 2004 and October 2016. A more recent picture comes from a 2020 internet survey of 1,392 adults from The Journal of Sex Research. Researchers found 91.5% of men reported watching pornography in the past month. So either roughly 9% of men don't want porn or lie about watching porn.
However, it's not how much porn men are consuming that is revealing. It's what they are consuming. Fortunately, researchers don't have to survey men to peer inside their hearts. They only have to look at their most popular searches on pornography sites.
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