2021 Sex Trends: What Adult Movies Did we Love Last Year?

It might be March, but there's still time to take a look at the sex trends of 2021, as once again the world's largest adult content platform has revealed what kind of erotic videos we couldn’t get enough of last year.

Shall we take a look?

While in 2020 the most searched term was "quarantine", in 2021 the most popular searches changed to hentai, romance and group sex.

Hentai can refer to any kind of sexual fetish, but in the adult film industry, it usually refers to animated erotic movies in anime-style. Why is hentai so popular? Partly because they are cartoons, not real people, so the creators can go further with colours, movements and shapes, and include naughty fantasies that are more difficult to do in real life.

We’re not surprised that romance was the second most searched term in 2021. Why? Because so many of us have been craving physical and emotional intimacy in the past two years, it’s natural we would go online to feel wrapped up and loved.

If the term in the 2nd position shows our collective needs of the last year, the 3rd most popular search, group sex, seems to do a similar thing. Now more than ever, most people are eager to get back to normality and "socialise" - sexually or otherwise - even more than before.

The people behind the searches.

While in the Philippines they spend an average of 11 minutes and 31 seconds watching erotic videos, in Sweden the time is slightly less, at 9 minutes and 4 seconds.

What time of day are we enjoying porn? This is pretty unanimous worldwide: we enjoy these pleasures at night, between 11 and 12 o'clock.

Differences between men and women.

While men focus on Japanese, milf and mature, the top searches for women are lesbian, Japanese and milf.

More specifically, women search for acts like "scissoring", "solo man", "cunnilingus" and "fingering". This is likely because these activities are focused on female pleasure as opposed to penetration alone. As we know, most women cannot orgasm from penetration alone.

The most curious fact? It is worth mentioning that the only country in the world where women watch more adult films than men is the Philippines, with 52%. While the least is in Germany, where female searchers are only 28%.

These are the global searches, but what about the UK specifically?

Sex trends in the UK in 2021.

Lesbian and MILF remained the top 2 most viewed categories in the UK in 2021 as in 2020. These were closely followed by Mature, Amateur and Anal. Lesbian and MILF were also the most searched for terms, followed by hentai, threesome and ebony.

A few terms including "threesome", "ebony", "massage" and "anal" saw a slight increase in 2021. But other terms saw a more notable increase. Searches for "lesbian scissoring" videos increased by 408%, "squirting" by 188%, and searches including the term "trans" by 126%.

How do UK porn watchers compare to the rest of the world?

Unsurprisingly, adult video watchers in the UK are 658% more likely to watch videos in the British category. They are also 244% more likely to watch MILF videos, and 102% more into Indian videos than the average porn watcher worldwide.

Who are the UK’s most beloved pornstars? According to these stats, UK viewers can’t get enough of Lana Rhoades and Riley Reid.

What are your favourite types of adult videos? How do they fit with the rest of your country or porn habits worldwide? We hope you’ve been inspired to try something new this year!