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Ireland comes second for "gay porn" searches

  • 19-06-2012 8:09am
    #1
    neonlampshade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36 ✭


    Recently discovered Google trends, a part of Google that tells you what people are searching for and where they are, and what's the first thing I looked for?

    http://www.google.ie/trends/?q=Gay+porn


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  • #2
    kingofslaves
    Closed Accounts Posts: 393 ✭✭kingofslaves


    funny enough searching for 's3x' gives pakistan as the top country !


  • #3
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    I'm not surprised at all with the high level of catholosim. It kind of goes hand in hand if you think about it.....:rolleyes:


    Edit, Oh I just figured out what you can type in to search for..... This will be fun:D


  • #4
    DubArk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 831 ✭✭✭DubArk


    1ZRed wrote: »
    I'm not surprised at all with the high level of catholosim. It kind of goes hand in hand if you think about it.....:rolleyes:


    Edit, Oh I just figured out what you can type in to search for..... This will be fun:D

    Well no I don’t get what gay porn and Catholicism have got to do with one another? I blame them for quite a lot but for gay porn searches? :confused:


  • #5
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    DubArk wrote: »
    Well no I don’t get what gay porn and Catholicism have got to do with one another? I blame them for quite a lot but for gay porn searches? :confused:

    I thought this was posted in AH when I wrote it so I just thought I'd take a dig. Doesn't seem to make much sense though I suppose:o :D


  • #6
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    That's all my fault, sorry about that.


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  • #7
    Azure_sky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,131 ✭✭✭Azure_sky


    We're second with transsexual porn also.

    http://www.google.ie/trends/?q=SHEMALE+porn&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0


  • #8
    WantToBeRose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 219 ✭✭WantToBeRose


    We're number 1 for Porn in general haha!

    http://www.google.ie/trends/?q=porn&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0


  • #9
    xsiborg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭xsiborg


    1ZRed wrote: »
    I thought this was posted in AH when I wrote it so I just thought I'd take a dig. Doesn't seem to make much sense though I suppose:o :D
    Pedant wrote: »
    That's all my fault, sorry about that.

    you guys shook up AH a bit alright, lol, no harm that a few eyebrows fell off the backs of their heads this morning, i dont think anybody took it seriously though... :D;)


  • #10
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    xsiborg wrote: »
    you guys shook up AH a bit alright, lol, no harm that a few eyebrows fell off the backs of their heads this morning, i dont think anybody took it seriously though... :D;)

    Haha I wish I saw the reaction it got this morning...but I had pretty much passed out by then!:D
    That must have been something for you straight guys though....:o




    The thread just disappeared this morning afternoon when I woke up!
    No lock, nothing just gone:confused:


  • #11
    xsiborg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭xsiborg


    1ZRed wrote: »
    Haha I wish I saw the reaction it got this morning...but I had pretty much passed out by then!:D
    That must have been something for you straight guys though....:o

    meh for some, miniature monocles for others, lol :p
    1ZRed wrote: »
    The thread just disappeared this morning afternoon when I woke up!
    No lock, nothing just gone:confused:

    ah yeah, the mods deleted it this morning i'd say to save some embarrassing blushes all round... :D

    oh speaking of straight lads, lol, i'd say half the reason why "gay porn" is such a popular search term in ireland is because there's still a lot of people who aren't as comfortable with being open about their sexuality as opposed say to being able to be more openly gay in england or some parts of the states. we're only a tiny tiny country, so not a huge market for any kind of porn really... :(


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  • #12
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    xsiborg wrote: »
    meh for some, miniature monocles for others, lol :p



    ah yeah, the mods deleted it this morning i'd say to save some embarrassing blushes all round... :D

    oh speaking of straight lads, lol, i'd say half the reason why "gay porn" is such a popular search term in ireland is because there's still a lot of people who aren't as comfortable with being open about their sexuality as opposed say to being able to be more openly gay in england or some parts of the states. we're only a tiny tiny country,so not a huge market for any kind of porn really... :(

    Must be it;) I'd say my drunken speech on prostate stimulation will only contribute to the figures as well. I can imagine a lot of confused straight guys looking that sh/t up:D


    A gap in the market maybe? I'm 18 now and have nothing better to do, so... :P


  • #13
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    1ZRed wrote: »
    I'm not surprised at all with the high level of catholosim. It kind of goes hand in hand if you think about it.....:rolleyes:

    No, it doesn't at all


  • #14
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    I've been messing around for a bit typing in all I can think of (not that much considering I'm so innocent) but we are into some kinky sh/t besides gay porn!



    Edit, This is a great way to test the market for what's trending. It's really going to help my up incoming "project"! And with gay porn on the rise, I can't think of a better career direction:p

    Now I have to think up a fitting porn name....


  • #15
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Ireland on the west of Europe
    I dunno, are international European and American searches routed through here?


    Ireland is Google European HQ after all

    How does a tiny country come second in the world unless all the searches go through Ireland
    4.7 million people looked up more then 47 million people in Spain? I don't think so

    Google European HQ in Dublin involved in the report so of course what's reported in Ireland gets credited to Ireland

    Pure lies


  • #16
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    For the "gay porn" searches, it seems that Maynooth and Wexford are the main culprits for gay porn searches. It might be worth noting that the biggest Catholic Seminary in the country is in Maynooth. There are loads of rural towns on the list well ahead of Dublin. Dublin is only in eighth place. It explains a lot as there isn't much of a gay scene in rural Ireland.

    http://www.google.ie/trends/?q=porn&date=all&geo=irl&ctab=0&sort=0&sa=N

    Also, interestingly enough, the primary languages used in the searches in Ireland were English and Polish. The Polish searches were 1 third that of the English searches. Now, I don't know if this means that the Polish gay population here is one third that of the Irish gay population, but it's food for thought; maybe it has something to do with the fact that most Poles come from conservative Catholic backgrounds also.

    As for the "porn" search on its own, Wexford and Maynooth come out on top again, with Dublin in seventh place. In Wexford and Kilkenny, almost half of the searches were in Polish. In Sligo, Westmeath, Waterford and Limerick over half of the "porn" searches were in Polish. I don't want to come to any conclusions by this but it seems that Poles (small as there numbers here are) are disproportionate horny in comparison with the rest of the population.

    http://www.google.ie/trends/?q=porn&date=all&geo=irl&ctab=0&sort=0&sa=N


  • #17
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Pedant wrote: »
    For the "gay porn" searches, it seems that Maynooth and Wexford are the main culprits for gay porn searches. It might be worth noting that the biggest Catholic Seminary in the country is in Maynooth.

    Yeah, a town of 12,000 people and you pick the seminary with 90 people studying for the priesthood

    Clearly those 90 and the permanent staff are responsible :rolleyes:

    And you leave out NUI Maynooth with over 6,000 undergraduates and postgraduates

    Worth noting? Under 200 hundred people?


  • #18
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Yeah, a town of 12,000 people and you pick the seminary with 90 people studying for the priesthood

    Clearly those 90 and the permanent staff are responsible :rolleyes:

    And you leave out NUI Maynooth with over 6,000 undergraduates and postgraduates

    Worth noting? Under 200 hundred people?

    I think 90 sexually repressed gay seminarians (or 45, apparently half off all new seminarians are gay) would be responsible for most of these porn searches.


  • #19
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    45 out of 12,000?


    LGBT forum, where people post threads about equality and then make assumptions about 90 people in a seminary and not 6,000 young people in a university or the other 6,000 residents. Nope, it's worth noting it's the seminary.....

    Would have thought this would be the last forum for assumptions and snap judgements


  • #20
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    45 out of 12,000?


    LGBT forum, where people post threads about equality and then make assumptions about 90 people in a seminary and not 6,000 young people in a university

    Would have thought this would be the last forum for assumptions and snap judgements

    I know a few seminarians (around my own age and all) and Jesus Christ are they closeted. Probably the most sexual repressed people I've ever come across, just the way they act. I'd put a bet that they spend half their time on porn sites instead of praying. They'd easily take up most of the porn traffic out of that 12,000.


  • #21
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    http://www.google.com/trends/?q=am+i+gay
    oddly enough we're also no.1 for the "am i gay" search


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  • #22
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Pedant wrote: »
    I know a few seminarians (around my own age and all) and Jesus Christ are they closeted. Probably the most sexual repressed people I've ever come across, just the way they act. I'd put a bet that they spend half their time on porn sites instead of praying. They'd easily take up most of the porn traffic out of that 12,000.

    Yeah - so what

    I'm not sure what religion has to do with this thread at all

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #23
    1ZRed
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    lidllady wrote: »
    http://www.google.com/trends/?q=am+i+gay
    oddly enough we're also no.1 for the "am i gay" search

    Our country is a lot gayer than I thought:confused:


  • #24
    Caiseoipe19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭Caiseoipe19


    mango salsa wrote: »
    Yeah - so what

    I'm not sure what religion has to do with this thread at all

    Absolutely nothing but the LGBT forum has become a great place to slag the Catholic Church lately.


  • #25
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    mango salsa wrote: »
    Yeah - so what

    I'm not sure what religion has to do with this thread at all

    Not about religion but the trends results could be something to do with the sexually repressed Catholic mentality of many men in Ireland that still persists to this day.


  • #26
    baby and crumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,512 ✭✭✭baby and crumble


    Why are we assuming that all these searches are done by men? Watching gay porn has become something of a niche within certain female circles, both gay and straight...


  • #27
    Hunchback
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,629 ✭✭✭Hunchback


    does anyone know how these figures are reached? like, is it total number of searches divided by total number of population?

    if that were the case, we could be number one!!

    i like that :)


  • #28
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    baby and crumble wrote: »
    Why are we assuming that all these searches are done by men? Watching gay porn has become something of a niche within certain female circles, both gay and straight...

    Well yes, but I'd bet money that the vast majority of those who're watching gay porn being men.


  • #29
    xsiborg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭xsiborg


    Pedant wrote: »
    baby and crumble wrote: »
    Why are we assuming that all these searches are done by men? Watching gay porn has become something of a niche within certain female circles, both gay and straight...

    Well yes, but I'd bed money on the vast majority of those who're watching gay porn being men.

    i'll take that bet Pedant, seeing as i would be a straight non-sexually repressed catholic... :p

    show me the money! :D;)


  • #30
    Pedant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Pedant


    xsiborg wrote: »
    i'll take that bet Pedant, seeing as i would be a straight non-sexually repressed catholic... :p

    I was talking about gay sexually repressed catholics, not straight non-sexually repressed catholics.


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  • #31
    xsiborg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭xsiborg


    Pedant wrote: »
    xsiborg wrote: »
    i'll take that bet Pedant, seeing as i would be a straight non-sexually repressed catholic... :p

    I was talking about gay sexually repressed catholics, not straight non-sexually repressed catholics.

    damn! :D :pac:


  • #32
    Shakti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,153 ✭✭✭Shakti


    why cant we ever be first at anything


  • #33
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    Shakti wrote: »
    why cant we ever be first at anything

    Rimming. Apparently


  • #34
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,184 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Pedant wrote: »
    For the "gay porn" searches, it seems that Maynooth and Wexford are the main culprits for gay porn searches. It might be worth noting that the biggest Catholic Seminary in the country is in Maynooth.

    While the seminary may contribute something; the state-owned university's reputation as "Gaynooth" is probably more major.
    mikemac1 wrote: »
    I

    Google European HQ in Dublin involved in the report so of course what's reported in Ireland gets credited to Ireland

    That's not how it works.


  • #35
    [Deleted User]
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    1ZRed wrote: »
    Shakti wrote: »
    why cant we ever be first at anything

    Rimming. Apparently
    Where is the link? ;);)


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