--- title: Pregnancy: What the World Wants to Know About Sex, Adult Breastfeeding description: Google searches reveal that Indian couples search for "sex" more than couples in any other country. Also "my husband wants me to breastfeed him." canonical: https://time.com/106039/sex-breastfeeding-and-cheesecake-what-the-world-searches-for-while-pregnant/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-20T17:45:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:19.866Z og:title: Guess What Weird Things Pregnant Couples Search For Around the World og:description: Google searches reveal that Indian couples search for "sex" more than couples in any other country. 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India’s top five Google searches for “How to \_\_\_ while pregnant” include “have sex,” “do sex,” and just plain “sex.” And to confuse matters further, India’s top search (by far) for “my husband wants me to \_\_\_” is “my husband wants me to breastfeed him.” Which means that expectant couples in India are both really into sex and really into adult breastfeeding. Men and women in the US, Britain, Australia, and South Africa also asked the internet how to have sex while pregnant, but people in Nigeria also asked how to “make love,” according to a Google Search analysis by the [New York Times. ](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/opinion/sunday/what-do-pregnant-women-want.html) Other results showed a widespread preoccupation with avoiding stretch marks, sleeping, and losing weight. The top search results for “Can pregnant women \_\_\_?” also varied by country. Most of the results were about eating certain foods and drinking coffee, but sex only broke the top five search terms in India, Mexico, and Nigeria. Pregnant Brazilian women took a whole different tack. Popular searches for what pregnant women can do in Brazil include: “dye their hair,” “ride a bike,” and “fly.” Meanwhile, Google searches for Britain and Australia are dominated entirely by food queries (Can pregnant women eat mayonnaise? Cheesecake? Prawns?) while Nigeria, Singapore, Mexico and the US seem concerned with drinking coffee. 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