Pornhub reveals what people search for when it comes to masturbation porn

Different strokes for different folks.
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When it comes to searching for masturbation on Pornhub, it's different strokes for different folks -- literally.

According to the popular adult entertainment site, these were the most popular search terms among users looking for videos about self-pleasure: "masturbation," "masturbate," "jerking off," and "masturbating." Those four terms alone make up 85 percent of the searches. Not too creative, but, um, they get the job done.

Once you get past those terms and into the next tier, however, it does get a little more compelling. Among other search terms in the top 25 results are: "finger fuck," "fap," "fapping," "finger bang," "muffin," "jilling," and, naturally, "rubbing one out."

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As for genre-specific search terms, those give a little more insight into what searchers are interested in. The top three results reflect the love of a little thrill: "public masturbation," "caught masturbating," and "caught jerking off."

Most of the rest of the top 50 aren't all that surprising, with similar variations on a theme: "girl masterbating [sic]," "hot guy masturbating," and "girl masturbating" (which is amusingly ranked lower than the aforementioned misspelled version), and "guy jerking off."

Not that there aren't a few searches that might raise the eyebrows, like the tech-friendly "twitch streamer masturbation" and the always curious "car masturbation."

If nothing else, this certainly confirms the idea that Pornhub has a little something for everybody.

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Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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