Most people only care about Christmas for a few weeks out of every year, but porn is on our minds every day. But what’s this? Each year “Christmas” briefly eclipses “porn” on Google? Will purity reign? Not this year, baby.
As the Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal points out, Christmas has surpassed porn every year for the past seven years — a pretty reliable trend, no? But look at this year’s data and you’ll see things are a little off. The Christmas resurgence has been in steady decline since 2004, picked back up for a couple of years and now looks like it very well may not top porn at all. Mostly, because we’re searching for porn a lot more than we were seven years ago. (Side note: who Googles “porn”?)
So who will prevail? If you’re incredibly bored this Christmas, keep refreshing Google Trends. It’s a pretty win-win matchup if you ask me. [Google Trends via The Atlantic]
Darren
Saturday, December 24, 2011 at 10:40 AMThat’s just people searching for the word ‘porn’ though, right?
When you add up the trends of all the other porn-related keywords, niches, porn star and celebrity names, etc, it’s amazing how little we think about christmas compared to porn at this time of year.
Nate
Saturday, December 24, 2011 at 11:10 AMWhat about Christmas porn, for that festive boner.
tis the season to be jolly
Duck Pancakes
Saturday, December 24, 2011 at 11:47 AMGold! Christmas Porn!
bdc
Saturday, December 24, 2011 at 7:44 PMlol, I have some of that, santa, an elf and 2 sexy females :D
Ben Vawdrey
Saturday, December 24, 2011 at 11:33 AMThe spike in porn in 2005 around Christmas is interesting. Very festive Christmas indeed.
chrisp
Saturday, December 24, 2011 at 4:10 PMEach year there is a bit of a spike around Christmas. Hmmmm….. wife and kids out shopping… Dad at home with the laptop…..
Zac
Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 2:58 PMalot of people on holidays with nothing better to do?
Tc
Saturday, December 24, 2011 at 7:50 PM“Deck the halls with balls on Holly”