--- title: Porn Popularity Shown in Changing Graphs description: Charting the world's most popular genres canonical: https://time.com/5974/these-graphs-show-the-changing-popularity-of-porn/ author: Jessica Roy article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-02-05T21:03:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:48.730Z og:title: Porn Popularity Shown in Changing Graphs og:description: Charting the world's most popular genres og:url: https://time.com/5974/these-graphs-show-the-changing-popularity-of-porn/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Porn Popularity Shown in Changing Graphs twitter:description: Charting the world's most popular genres twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # These Graphs Show the Changing Popularity of Porn by [Jessica Roy](https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/) ## Jessica Roy Feb 5, 2014 9:03 PM UTC by [Jessica Roy](https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/) ## Jessica Roy Feb 5, 2014 9:03 PM UTC [Sexualitics](http://sexualitics.org/) is a big data project by a group of sociologists, demographic experts, computer scientists and math experts based in France that seeks to parse human sexuality by studying huge datasets and tracking how popular different genres of porn video uploads are. Using every video uploaded to the popular adult site xHamster from its creation in 2007 to February 2013, the Sexualitics team built [Porngram](http://porngram.sexualitics.org/), a tool that maps porn tags people search for and shows you the terms’ rate of popularity since 2007. The result is a whole lot of information about the world’s sexual preferences placed into pretty little charts. And really, if we’re being honest, aren’t graphs their own kind of porn? Porngram Films tagged “teen” dropped at the same rate as though with an older theme. Porngram Meanwhile, uploaders seem to be a whole lot more into threesomes recently. Porngram After a brief dip in popularity in 2007, “secretary” and “boss” are on the upswing. Porngram Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we have the adorable statistic that people want the lovey dovey stuff more than the other stuff. Aww. Porngram Blame it on the increased popularity of “revenge porn,” but the tag “revenge” appears to be skyrocketing. Porngram Despite the stagnation of “mature,” “MILF” is on its way up. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5974/these-graphs-show-the-changing-popularity-of-porn/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5974/these-graphs-show-the-changing-popularity-of-porn/"},"headline":"These Graphs Show the Changing Popularity of Porn","datePublished":"2014-02-05T21:03:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:48.730Z","description":"Charting the world's most popular genres","url":"https://time.com/5974/these-graphs-show-the-changing-popularity-of-porn/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","Sex","teen","Porn","big data","statistics"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessica Roy","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5974/these-graphs-show-the-changing-popularity-of-porn/","name":"These Graphs Show the Changing Popularity of Porn"}}]}] ```