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/search/#cat=0-3-613&q=gay%2Cshemale%2C&geo=US&date=5%2F2004%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. :dancing:

[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 (http://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.

[ballzNnutz]

ninja tgirl searches thats what. only logical answer.

[Bunsdk]

Hmm, doesnt this as i remember correlate with TGs starting to appear in public tv programs for real?

The dating program with miriam, the tg in big brother and so forth.
maybe that kind of sparked some interest?

Not sure about this, was just a thought. Didnt do my research on when these things was, but rather cut in on instinct :P

[BellaBellucci]

Anyone remember Transgeneration? It came out around that time, too.

Transgeneration, Episode One, Part One - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkg5GgOpcVI)

~BB~

[asianphoenixx]

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?

Interesting stats!


I started my career on Dec.23 2005, exactly on that period.

Most of girls tell me that those period (end of 2005 to end of 2007) were the best period of escorting.

I have to agree for Canadian market alone, when all of us in Toronto were busy at the time.

I've heard from one of my tgirl friends in London, UK market was also pretty good at the time. Some girls could easily charge 500 pounds an hour, is it true?

There were lots of legendary porn stars as well as tgirl escorts on that period as well.

LOL...i just wish i could go back to that time again

[SammiValentine]

That's interesting.

Here's another graph: the number of TS movies made per year according to the Adult Film Database (www.adultfilmdatabase.com (http://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.

Thats a typical credit crunch curve. Not a interesting as the first graph.

re 1st graph i thought of the first iphone but that was 2007, something about miriam t.v program was also aired in 2004 in UK (dunno about u.s) so erm.. there was also a program shot and on SKY about trannies and wives around 2004-2006 am sure, infact some friends off tvchix was on it...

looks like the real surge started around may 2005??? hmmm the same time as liverpool won the european cup:D

2005 was my 1st year i did amateaur shoots actualy (obviosuly nothing at all to do with this like) lolol may 2005 1st shoot, 1st escort job around august 2005.

Was there a big rollout of broadband in US during 2005?

[SammiValentine]

I noticed I also registered for tvchix in may 2005, deffo something in the water/air that year lol xx

[batman4ever]

it must have been the year i discovered internet *LOL*

[SammiValentine]

I would of thought the batphone was DSL enabled a lot sooner than that lol x

[Prospero]

I suspect the growth of sites this this mean that many make it their port of destination rather than flailing in the wilds of the web. It is far easier to find what you are looking for with a direct and more focused search than back then.

[SammiValentine]

hmmm maybe it was when britney spears shaved her hair off.. but alas feb 2007. however....... does that mean she is to blame for the credit crunch???

#canofworms

[Richctdude]

more sites and it really caught on

[runningdownthatdream]

I think it was likely due to increased media exposure and perhaps especially:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_Something_About_Miriam

Note that it originally aired in early 2004 although the media buzz about the show continued for some time and spread all over the world.

[Stavros]

I can't be sure but I believe that since 2005 there has been an incremental increase in the numbers of people connected to the internet at home, which has been possible as connectivity becomes easier through cable or wireless. The costs have come down dramatically as a result of the increase in users, which altogether means more and more people accessing more and more websites, and particularly social networking sites and YouTube which were limited at the time. There was a time when the internet was only accessible at work on in public libraries or internet cafes, I think the greater use of it at home where people can search for their preferences in private may explain the graphs. Certainly there is a greater variety of material out there than there used to be, yet I understand some other surveys shows that most people access roughly the same 10 web sites on a regular basis...seems to be right for me.

[BluegrassCat]

It seems likely, as some people said, that the bulge was due to increased broadband access and the decline due to people finding sites they like rather than starting every jo session by heading to google. But Asia's comment is really interesting in that there was a real effect going on off the web. That and the fact that other niche markets didn't show the same bulge makes it seem like maybe there was T in the water those years. Maybe that was the golden age for providers and producers - the window after widespread broadband and before the recession.

[Jamie French]

Started escorting in 2005... between then and 2007 was the busiest time in the business I've had.

[BluegrassCat]

Here's another bit of evidence of for the golden-age of 2005-2007 theory. Looking at the top 150 posters on HA we can see when they joined. Again for 2006 and 2007 a lot more people (who would go on to post substantially) joined. October & November 2007 were especially good months. Of course all kinds of porn forums could have been doing similarly well in this time, but it's interesting it matches up with the google-search pattern.