@Bisougarou:

I agree about the search term but the other important fact is Google! In "rich countries" gay newbies will surely use the general search words "gay porn" but not on Google! If you take a look around you now ten years old know about torrent and sites for torrent. Those youngs won't count in the study because they already use a specialized site.  :blownose:

I realize this is a tad late/old but just now returned.  How do you think they found those specialized sites in the first place no matter where they are?  Google…  Especially curious/closeted ones that don't have any open gay relationships to find out that way.  I've used other torrent sites, but I chose to use Google to find this site and another one with very similar terms to the "study" while at the same time NOT being closeted.  I'm not saying it's a perfect study or representation, but I still think it has potential merit and is not surprising in the least.

It has been said but most asian countries don't use Google, they've got their own sites for research on the net. And there are others like yahoo search or seek which don't count here because this study only used google as a reference. Therefore those countries aren't the ones that watch the most gay porn, they are the ones that watch it the most through google. In that case, either it has to be renamed or it doesn't count as a study. It's like doing a survey on LGBT rights in the USA while asking only a gender and not the other : it would become too specific to be called a LGBT survey

I think it makes sense that people in the more intolerant homophobic countries would be watching more gay porn behind closed doors, whereas in the more liberated countries people free to actually have relationships and sex.

When was the last time any of us did that? I torrent or stream or read blogs. And most millennial don't google any more. So I agree with the arguments above re why the results came up the way it did. Also, most Asian countries don't use google.

I agree about the search term but the other important fact is Google! In "rich countries" gay newbies will surely use the general search words "gay porn" but not on Google! If you take a look around you now ten years old know about torrent and sites for torrent. Those youngs won't count in the study because they already use a specialized site.  :blownose:

I realize this is a tad late/old but just now returned.  How do you think they found those specialized sites in the first place no matter where they are?  Google…  Especially curious/closeted ones that don't have any open gay relationships to find out that way.  I've used other torrent sites, but I chose to use Google to find this site and another one with very similar terms to the "study" while at the same time NOT being closeted.  I'm not saying it's a perfect study or representation, but I still think it has potential merit and is not surprising in the least.

And think about our century! Now every kiddo has a smartphone that i'm sure isn't counted in this study. They don't have those kind of phones in South Countries! So they use the old fashioned way : googling on a computer ^^

If the study wouldn't have been only about Google, the results would have been entirely different

Basically it's like they ask "who search the most for the words gay porn" instead of "who watch the most gay porn" or "who is interested in gay porn the most". In many countries the gay porn googling is over for a decade now. For African countries, that kinda started using internet recently, it's like discovering a whole new world.

If you'd do the same study over "straight porn"/"how to use a computer"/… they would also be in the top 10 ^^

Plus, in the countries that forbid homosexuality it's like a "dark fascination" for them. With everything that you're being told is forbidden comes curiosity. Thanks to the internet we can actually measure it ahah

@themetatron:

Why the higher countries are african?
This is pretty interesting

provision of internet services to the African population is behind many in the world, but catching up

and our searches are probably more specific than just 'gay porn'

That's most reasonable explanation.

Apart from that, there are so many countries whose citizens do not use English word to search for gay porn. 10 out of 10 on that list uses English as Lingua Franca to a certain extent.

Greetings from Brazil.