After the word leapt the Pacific, it came to represent erotic comics and animations in the Japanese style.ĭespite its unfamiliarity to many, hentai was Pornhub’s second most searched for term of 2018 and one of its most popular categories. In its mother tongue, the word denotes a perverse or extreme sexual situation.
This loanword from Japan is less well-known than other Japanese words like sushi, samurai, tsunami, and typhoon, yet produces more Google results than any of them. If you’ve never heard of hentai, you’re not alone. Nestled among the categories and search terms is a word that may seem oddly foreign: hentai.
Some takeaways from 2018? A staggering 4,403 petabytes of data transferred, the United States is the largest porn consumer (by a huge margin), and Stormy Daniels is the most searched for person (just brushing up on current events). Every year Pornhub, the world’s largest pornography website, releases annual statistics detailing the trends in online porn.
