Then End of 2005 & the Beginning of the Transsexual Internet

[BluegrassCat]

I was playing around with google analytics and found the interesting pattern of internet searches shown below. The red line is the number of "shemale" (the most common porn term for tg) searches and for comparison the blue line is the number of "gay" searches. You'll notice the gay line is basically flat across the time series while "shemale" sees an explosion of interest for two years starting at the end of 2005 and then dropping off and flattening out at the end of 2007.

So my question is, What the heck happened? One possibility is that this is the beginning of the Youtube/embedded video era and so people are suddenly searching for video porn but the gay line doesn't seem to respond and multiple other fetish searches show no movement (MILF, strap-on, femdom, cuckold, BBW, interracial, cumshots.) so what's so special about 2006-07 for transsexual porn?

I haven't read a Billion Wicked Thoughts, maybe it addresses this?

[BellaBellucci]

Good find. I can't wait to see some of the responses.

~BB~

[BluegrassCat]

Btw here's the link if anyone wants to play around with it.
http://www.google.com/insights/searc...4%2096m&cmpt=q

[Token Williams-Black]

Very interesting...I can't explain it though.

[robertlouis]

I was playing around with google analytics and found the interesting pattern of internet searches shown below. The red line is the number of "shemale" (the most common porn term for tg) searches and for comparison the blue line is the number of "gay" searches. You'll notice the gay line is basically flat across the time series while "shemale" sees an explosion of interest for two years starting at the end of 2005 and then dropping off and flattening out at the end of 2007.

So my question is, What the heck happened? One possibility is that this is the beginning of the Youtube/embedded video era and so people are suddenly searching for video porn but the gay line doesn't seem to respond and multiple other fetish searches show no movement (MILF, strap-on, femdom, cuckold, BBW, interracial, cumshots.) so what's so special about 2006-07 for transsexual porn?

I haven't read a Billion Wicked Thoughts, maybe it addresses this?

More tg-oriented sites, perhaps.

Or maybe the prospect of two more years of Dubya lol.

[NJfan]

We found our niche porn sites and decided to keep going to those. I mean, once you find your dream girl or gurl, why keep looking for other porn?

[scroller]

Yes, truly fascinating find. I'd love to hear some theories why that's the case.

(n.b., I guess I myself joined this site in early 2006.)

[Token Williams-Black]

We found our niche porn sites and decided to keep going to those. I mean, once you find your dream girl or gurl, why keep looking for other porn?

True. I don't search for "shemales"; I search for individual models.

[BluegrassCat]

(n.b., I guess I myself joined this site in early 2006.)

That's interesting.

Here's another graph: the number of TS movies made per year according to the Adult Film Database (www.adultfilmdatabase.com). It looks like maybe producers are responding to demand with a slight delay. With the huge new appetite and accessibility starting in 2006, TS movie production ratchets up year after year but after demand drops off in 2008, production is at its highest level and only corrects in 2009. Of course it's tough to separate out the effects of the recession and the move to web-only content instead of movies. Obviously I'm just guessing at all this and would love the input of industry folks.

[GroobyKrissy]

I was playing around with google analytics and found the interesting pattern of internet searches shown below. The red line is the number of "shemale" (the most common porn term for tg) searches and for comparison the blue line is the number of "gay" searches. You'll notice the gay line is basically flat across the time series while "shemale" sees an explosion of interest for two years starting at the end of 2005 and then dropping off and flattening out at the end of 2007.

So my question is, What the heck happened? One possibility is that this is the beginning of the Youtube/embedded video era and so people are suddenly searching for video porn but the gay line doesn't seem to respond and multiple other fetish searches show no movement (MILF, strap-on, femdom, cuckold, BBW, interracial, cumshots.) so what's so special about 2006-07 for transsexual porn?

I haven't read a Billion Wicked Thoughts, maybe it addresses this?

Isn't this fairly easy to explain...?

TS porn has a variety of differing search terms that are acceptable for use, while gay porn does not. That is, if you want gay porn, you're either typing in 'gay porn' or 'lesbian porn'.

A more accurate graph would depict all major search related terms for TS porn for a comparison to something as narrow and defined as gay porn. Just my 2 cents. I would guess that those graphs would probably look much more similar.