The porn community xHamster has dived deep into their data pool and taken a closer look at the Halloween search habits of their users. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the popular holiday also has a powerful effect on the search behavior of porn sites. The details, however, have a few surprises in store.
The immense popularity of the Warner Bros Blockbuster »Joker« led to a jump of the search word on xHamster. This trend has been evident since the premiere of Batman’s archrival’s original story. On Halloween, however, the term clearly gained further momentum.
xHamster had recommended sexy costumes to its users before Halloween and accordingly the recommended themes »Tarzan« and »Nurse« were extremely sought after during the Halloween season.
All in all, Halloween fans are more likely to keep it traditional for pornographic searches. »Monsters«, »vampires« and »aliens« rank very high, all of them classics for Halloween costumes as well as popular horror stories. Somewhat surprisingly, the terms »mummy«, »clown« and »cannibal« ranked ahead of the »werewolf«, which is often perceived as sexy, and also ahead of the witch.
Among the costumes the xHamster recommended »Tarzan« clearly dominated the field among the men. Priests, cowboys and gladiators also enjoyed great popularity among costume fans. Not very popular were firemen, sailors and cave men. More popular among the costumes for men were policemen and rappers.
For women, the xHamster recommendation “Nurse” likewise led the field. Unlike Tarzan, however, this sexy classic would certainly have been in the forefront even without the porn site’s recommendation. Second place was taken by a religious motif, just like the men’s »priest«, with the »nun« enjoying immense popularity for ladies. Also popular were »cheerleaders«, »angels«, »Cleopatra« and the hippie girl, all costume classics, which apart from the cheerleader can also be found in the German tradition of carnival. »Cavewoman«, »Mermaid« and »Policewoman« were chosen less frequently.
An interesting aspect is the breakdown by adjectives, which are probably popular across seasons and do not automatically have to be related to Halloween. The terms »captured«, »attacked« and »kidnapped« are clearly in the lead. Terms such as »dangerous«, »possessed« or »haunted« were rare, but far more frequent than a term with criminal implications »stalked«.
The most popular horror figures were Annabelle among women and Joker among men. But also quite unsexy characters like Chucky and Pennywise were searched for more frequently during Halloween.
Alex Hawkins, Vice President of xHamster, commented on the results of the data analysis: »Every Halloween, I’m both thrilled and appalled by the diverse sexualities of our users. I don’t know the people who are searching porn sites for ghosts, Pennywise or the haunted horror doll Annabelle, but human sexuality is surely as wonderful and spooky as anything a witch could cook up in her cauldron.«
He added, »Let’s use this holiday to celebrate our willingness to try on new personas, to breakdown gender and class roles, and imagine a world without judgment. After all, that’s what porn does every day!«
Studies and surveys from the xHamster data treasure are regularly published on the company’s blog.