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Why Indians search for ’sex’ 9 times more in April than in any other month?

BySanvar Oberoi -May 11, 2009

Using the power of Google Trends & Google Insights, Ive come across an interesting find: www.sex.com is searched 9 times more by Indians than any other month.

So whats happened is that ‘www.sex.com’ is the 3rd fast rising search in the past 30 days in India

Google Insights for past 30 days

Now, as the topic of this blog shows the peculiararity of the month of April. The last day of March recorded 11 units, the 1st day of April recorded 60 while most of April recorded 90+ & fell back down to 26 on the 1st day of May. Just have a look at the graph:

Graph of web search volume of 'www.sex.com' searched over 12 months

Whats even more weird is the demographics of the people searching for ‘www.sex.com’. Why does Madhya Pradesh record 100 with Orissa & Delhi closely behind? Werent Madhya Pradesh & Orissa non metro states (states that do not have any of India’s 8 metros) and considered more on the conservative side?

State wise representation of people searching for 'www.sex.com'

Shifting our focus to more city based searches as opposed to state based as above, once again we notice Bhopal based in Madhya Pradesh tops the list with Delhi following after a good gap in the units. What shocks me more is Mahape, which is a small town in Maharashtra! I did not even know of its existence, forget internet coverage & activity; but in this case not only does it seem to have a good grip on technology but can drive itself all the way upto #3 with a good lead over metros such as Hyderabad & Mumbai. Any logical explanation for that? Also why does Google account for ‘Delhi’ separately than ‘New Delhi’?

City based searches for 'www.sex.com'

Now it makes one wonder why would such a weird phenomenon take place?

I mean you could come up with very theorotical, pratical, creative & factual answers to this, but there has to be 1 logical explanation for this.

Any suggestions

Why only in April people search for ‘www.sex.com’ 9 times more?

Why Madhya Pradhesh has the highest number of searches?

Why Mahape, a tiny town in Maharashtra is 3rd in searches for ‘www.sex.com’?

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raghav soni

your question on why mahape leads...Then you must know that mahape is a hub for D.A.K.C and other internet companies which means all the reliance communications traffic flows from here...thus the google recognizing whole reliance traffic as occurring from mahape...

This could also serve as a barometer of computer literacy in India as most illiterate people would type 'www.@#%.com' in their search engines....

Suveer Bajaj

Internet? A place for guys to vent out their feelings! Hahaha! That's a good one!

I think the answer is more base. More simple. Something to the effect of psychographics more than demographics and geographics.

Can I make the assumption that a large chunk of porn surfers are pre-pubescent and pubescent teen boys and girls? And in April, they have just gotten done with their exams. So they rid themselves of the exam frustration by reverting to porn. Also, exam time calls for an abstinence from sensual pleasures, which results to a heightened usage pattern upon closure of the same.

Also, an alarming stat shows that if it is to be ended, most couples end up terminating their relationship (co-incidentally) within the first three months of the year [vague observational pattern development]. Can this be the cause of the steep increment? Makes us wonder.

Ankit

Did you check the Internet usage statistics of dofferent states. I mean, what is the distribution of the people using Internet, states-wise and city-wise? Agreed, Mumbai and Delhi will figure high on the list, but among the non-metro states, is Madhya Pradesh the highest? May be.

If that is so, then the issue that why these states record the highest number of searches for sex.com may be attributed to the fact that sex-literacy in these states (Madhya Pradesh) is absymally low. No discs, no bars. Probably, Internet is the only place for the guys here to vent out their feelings - and hence the stats.

Regarding Delhi occupying the second place, well , you just have to ask about Delhi guys from a Delhi girl. ;) . Trust me. I'd have thought of Delhi on #1, actually

However, I do not understand the monthly phenomenon. Ummm.. mating month ? :P

Jahnavi

Very interesting indeed. Nice observation =P

Harshil Karia

Interesting analysis indeed.

Would be interesting to see the insights of videos that are being viewed by these regions if at all.

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