People wanted to watch lots of 'alien' and 'Belle Delphine' porn in 2019, PornHub data reveals

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woman on phone in bed

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  • In 2019 alone, pornography-distributing platform PornHub had 42 billion visits to its website, and a whopping 115 million visits every day of the year.

  • The search "amateur" topped the top 10 list of 2019 PornHub searches, "alien" came in second, and "POV," meaning "point of view," was the third-highest search of the year.

  • According to Laurie Betito, a clinical psychologist and the director of PornHub's Sexual Wellness Center, the most-searched terms suggest people are looking for more realistic depictions of sex when consuming porn.

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In 2019 alone, pornography-distributing platform PornHub had 42 billion visits to its website, and a whopping 115 million visits every day of the year.

According to new PornHub data, people on the platform sought out content with common themes and types of explicit content.

The word "amateur" was the most-searched term of 2019, according to PornHub, with "alien" coming in second, and "POV," or "point of view," holding the third most-searched spot.

According to Laurie Betito, a clinical psychologist and the director of PornHub's Sexual Wellness Center, the most-searched terms suggest people are looking for more realistic depictions of sex when consuming porn.

The search term "amateur," for example, mainly generates videos of amateur porn artists or laypeople making their own low-budget pornography.

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PornHub also found that current events affected top searches because "alien" spiked around the time people were discussing the storming of Area 51, a top-secret military base where the government is rumored to keep aliens.

Similar to "amateur," the search term "POV" signaled an interest in porn that looked and felt real, according to PornHub. People who have at-home virtual reality devices like headsets can have a more immersive porn-viewing  experience.

"Belle Delphine," an Instagram-famous model, was the fourth most popular search. Delphine became known for pulling viral stunts like selling her bathwater for $30 a jar and later delved into the world on PornHub, making "spoof" videos.

Delphine gave her videos racy titles and her fans clicked, only to find humorous takes on the topics she described. For example, Delphine posted a video titled "Belle Delphine Gets a Huge Dripping Creampie," which users found was a video of the model eating a literal creampie dessert rather than performing a sexually explicit act, as many assumed she would.

Delphine is also know as being a cosplayer, or person who enjoys dressing up as a character from a book, comic, video game, or movie for fun, which could help explain why "cosplay" was another top search term on PornHub for 2019.

"Apex Legends" took over "Fortnite" as the top video game search term of the year, and people who searched this term were likely looking for porn that depicted the game characters having sex. Video game characters like Tomb Raider's Lara Croft and Nintendo's Zelda were also popular, according to PornHub.

ASMR, or or autonomous sensory meridian response, was also a top term. ASMR refers to the tingling sensation a person might experience when they hear whisper-level sounds like the crinkling of a potato chip bag, brushing of hair, or tapping of fingernails on plastic, Insider previously reported.

Some people become relaxed when listening to ASMR sounds. And apparently, some also get turned on.

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