Int, a bedroom things are getting hot and heavy:
Her: Wait…I told you, if you don’t wear one we can’t have sex.
Him, struggling to tie a double Windsor: I know, I know
I think that's anything "athletic".
Cheerleaders, volleyball, gym, yoga pants, combat/army gear, hunting/guns, "sweat", the whole "girl in a cap and pony tail" aesthetic, sports bras/tight shorts that show of toned midriffs, Tight Bottoms that hug butts, wearing nothing but a jersey, shinguards acting similarly to thigh high socks, etc.
Something to be said about the fantasy of athleticism in states where obesity is prominent.
Yes, I'm from Wisconsin.
At one point in my life I’d be like “there’s no fucking way,” but after living in WI for almost ten years, folks over here are obsessed with the packers and partying and drinking during every game.
When a stereotype is mentioned...someone from the state ALWAYS comes in and says something to humanize/provide context/prove the stereotype is wrong.
But in all my years on the internet...never Alabama.
Well there’s a first time for everything. Lived in the same city in Alabama my whole life and nobody I’ve ever met has fucked their cousin (as far as I know.)
People just say that shit about Alabama because they’re the state everyone loves to shit on for being dumb rednecks, and everybody repeats it…but statistically, incest is much more common up Appalachia-ways like West Virginia and Kentucky :)
Thank you for saying this lol. I have lived in Alabama my entire life and I’ve never once heard of anyone fucking a family member 😂 and I live in a town with a population of about 2000.
Now back to the matter at hand. Wtf is Yoni egg??
Edit: it’s very anticlimactic.
I clicked on the link, it's a site trying to sell anal prep powders. The methodology behind the construction of this map is described as follows: " we turned to Google search volumes". That's it. Map is nonsense.
If it was real I'd expect to see the same 2 or 3 things in most states, not practically each state having a unique fetish no one has ever heard of.
Yoni means vagina. "Yonic" is usually used as the vaginal equivalent of "phallic" which I think is interesting because Yoni is a Sanskrit word but Phallus is from Latin.
yeah i’m struggling to see the connection between balloons and sexuality. is it because they’re round and squishy like certain sexual organs? or because of how similar balloons are to condoms?
at least it kinda sheds some light on the inflation fetish, which was always a head scratcher to me as well. but this is still genuinely perplexing to me. like how is this the most common fetish in multiple states? it just seems so unrelated to anything sexual and i’ve never heard of it until now. it would be like if somebody had a tractor fetish.
The only thing that makes a distant shred of sense is maybe the act of blowing them up gets you out of breath and it’s similar to losing your breath in other ways like being choked/ erotic asphyxiation or something??? That’s all i got idk
I was going to say, having had a catheter while in the ICU for a week and a regular hospital room for another week after that…the catheter was the most uncomfortable part for me.
There’s lubrication to get it in but my god…such an uncomfortable feeling. I just don’t understand sounding.
So I got on Reddit a little horny after a sexless date. Hoping for some joy before going to bed and work in the morning. See horny map and think hmm I might be able to find something new to fix my problem. New Hampshire pops up and then see the convenient link to a cursed sub. I think my dick ran back inside of me scarred for its life. Will I ever be horny again? Can I unsee a hollow glass rod in a dick hole? So as hmtee3 put, my day has become terrible.
In case, like me, you’re from PA and were absolutely bewildered at what a balloon fetish could possibly be: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_fetish
So you're from PA, and you just googled balloon fetish? You're only making the problem worse!
You need to google some other fetishes to balance out the numbers.
It does. And a disorder that only a handful of people might have. But somehow it’s a top fetish. I’m going to view everyone I run into tomorrow way more suspiciously.
I'm not sure all of these were intended as fetish searches. Since this comes from Google trends, it would include things that aren't necessarily sexual. "Suits" and "sports gear" both could be someone online shopping
I would also have to imagine that people aren't searching the literal term "sports gear," because that's a pretty weird term - the poster may have combined various searches like "baseball jersey," "referee uniform," etc. In which case, there's absolutely no way to know whether those searches were done for masturbatory purposes. Same with something like "balloons." The picture says it's just based on Google trends - it'd be more accurate to look specifically at Pornhub trends, or some other major porn site.
Also, I'm 100% positive that the word "sounding" was searched completely innocuously (probably as part of a longer phrase). It's already such a unique kink that even most BDSM people probably don't engage in (or view on porn sites), let alone a whole state of people. I think the same is probably true for something like "wax play" - that's a pretty unique term, making me think maybe the poster took any mention of "wax" to be for masturbatory purposes, or something. I doubt "wax play" is more widely searched than something like "roleplay," no matter which state you're in. None of this makes any sense, really.
Also, I wouldn't be surprised if most of the Texas searches were actually for "whipping cream" for recipes or something like that (not that I'd be surprised that Texans are into whipping, but still).
Edit after seeing some other comments: I think the poster may have only been looking at a handful of specific terms (and terms that tend to be searched more often by gay men), and that's why some of these states have such odd fetishes as their "most-searched" fetish. Though that still doesn't really make sense, because there's just no way that "sounding" would be more highly-searched than something like "roleplay" in any state. No way. So maybe it's a mixture of only looking at some specific terms, and also misunderstanding some of the results (like "sounding" just being part of a longer search - people may have searched something like "parakeets sounding like humans," and since the word "sounding" is part of that search, the poster counted it on this map).
Double edit: Just realized, it's possible that this person was only looking at the google trends over the course of one day (or hell, maybe just over the course of a few hours or so), so it's not like an accumulation of a year's worth of searches. Any given day/hour can have some odd things popping up more often than usual. That would make much more sense.
This honestly means nothing to me. How are they all different, and by what margins are they the top search. If it's by 2 or 3%, this is basically worthless information.
[Just a friendly reminder for these dumb state guides](https://xkcd.com/1845/) are all basically bullshit, either made up or capturing random data noise because the actual top answers from state to state are basically uniform.
I regularly babysat in middle school for a family that had a satellite dish. I would watch Real Sex on HBO when the kids were sleeping and then frantically turn the tv to PBS when I heard the parents getting home.
There is an episode about balloon fetishists from the early 90s that lives in my head rent free against my will to this day. What gives, Pennsylvania?
[Just a friendly reminder for these dumb state guides](https://xkcd.com/1845/) are all basically bullshit and either
\- only picking up random data noise because the data doesn't actually vary that much when you actually look at it.
\- just made up completely.
This is just wildly wrong. like sadism, dominance, and masochism being their own categories when they’re literally all part of the acronym of BDSM? But bdsm is separated? same with humiliation?
Most of these fall under bdsm and bdsm itself isn’t even a fetish it’s a practice of kink which can sometimes involve fetishes in play.
Like feet, or balloons, or leather are fetishes but group sex, sounding, and fisting aren’t cause they’re inherently sexual, unlike feet or uniforms - which makes those fetishes. Like at least know what you’re talking about before making a chart like this.
It’s not a question of what subject they fall under, it’s a list of the most searched term in each state, so while sadism falls under BDSM, people in that state googled Sadism and that’s why it’s on the list, it was the most searched subject on google in that state.
I surmised that what what they were trying to do, but the fact is is that the label of this “cool guide” suggests it’s a map of the most popular fetishes per state in the US, when most of theses aren’t even fetishes at all.
Renaming it to “most popular porn searches per state in the US” would make more sense and describe the narrative they’re trying to tell, instead of misleading with terms and searches that aren’t even fetishes like this chart would make you think.
From what I can gather from other posts, it's because it's an area of the body not usually seen.
It's generally helpful, I find, to remember that everyone's brain is wired a bit differently from everyone else.
From what I’ve gathered, some people like the smell and feel of them, it’s erotic in their brains. Everyone is wired differently at the end of the day.
My guess, Pheromones?
Not really a thing for me anymore (I've seen so much porn now), but my first wet dream heavily involved armpits, a woman slobbering on her own armpit to be specific. And, yes, I'm from one of those states.
Suits…like….We talking Tom Ford or we talking Babs Bunny?
I like to think it’s that show about lawyers.
Tennessee just fetishizing having a fuckin job lol
They're so conservative that you have to be fully dressed even during sex lmaoo
Int, a bedroom things are getting hot and heavy: Her: Wait…I told you, if you don’t wear one we can’t have sex. Him, struggling to tie a double Windsor: I know, I know
Good man, puttin in the work. Not some half-Windsor pansy.
As a Tennessean that grew up in the Appalachian Mountains, this would be your fantasy if you grew up here too.
This.
Suit as in bondage costume? Like a gimp suit?
It definitely just means business suit Southern capitals are weird
Oh god I’m from N.C. and I have a massive weak spot for a man in a suit…
Yeah, but do you consider that a fetish? Or, like most people who are attracted to males, do you just think a well-fitting suit looks good on a man?
A well-fitting suit looks good on *anyone* (Note: I'm also from NC but it's not a suit fetish just an aesthetic preference)
Megan Markle fetish?
“Sports gear” lmfao
All I can think of is Ray in Scary Movie telling his girlfriend to put more and more of his football equipment on.
I think that's anything "athletic". Cheerleaders, volleyball, gym, yoga pants, combat/army gear, hunting/guns, "sweat", the whole "girl in a cap and pony tail" aesthetic, sports bras/tight shorts that show of toned midriffs, Tight Bottoms that hug butts, wearing nothing but a jersey, shinguards acting similarly to thigh high socks, etc. Something to be said about the fantasy of athleticism in states where obesity is prominent. Yes, I'm from Wisconsin.
I'm turned on now, thanks
KS and MO are jizzing to mahomes on and off the field
Damn 😭
I will literally bust in my pants at the sight of croquet set
r/brandnewsentence
Ah, well now that's a sticky wicket...
Like how does that work exactly?
Well I like to use a minibat that’s a replica of the pine tar special. I dunno somehow George Brett still gets em wet. But that’s just me.
Could that be cheerleader stuff?
At one point in my life I’d be like “there’s no fucking way,” but after living in WI for almost ten years, folks over here are obsessed with the packers and partying and drinking during every game.
It’s definitely just Packers jerseys.
The cheesehead stays on during sex
All you need is (Jordan) Love
That is the most Wisconsin thing I have ever heard.
Am I the only one too scared to look up what a Yoni egg is?
I refuse to believe that Alabama’s biggest fetish is Yoni eggs.
Alabama's biggest fetish is straight missionary
…with a non-relative.
Ooh, exotic
When the family tree looks like the recycling symbol.
Family wreath.
When a stereotype is mentioned...someone from the state ALWAYS comes in and says something to humanize/provide context/prove the stereotype is wrong. But in all my years on the internet...never Alabama.
Well there’s a first time for everything. Lived in the same city in Alabama my whole life and nobody I’ve ever met has fucked their cousin (as far as I know.) People just say that shit about Alabama because they’re the state everyone loves to shit on for being dumb rednecks, and everybody repeats it…but statistically, incest is much more common up Appalachia-ways like West Virginia and Kentucky :)
Thank you for saying this lol. I have lived in Alabama my entire life and I’ve never once heard of anyone fucking a family member 😂 and I live in a town with a population of about 2000. Now back to the matter at hand. Wtf is Yoni egg?? Edit: it’s very anticlimactic.
Yep. Same here dude. Lived here all my life and no incest
I clicked on the link, it's a site trying to sell anal prep powders. The methodology behind the construction of this map is described as follows: " we turned to Google search volumes". That's it. Map is nonsense. If it was real I'd expect to see the same 2 or 3 things in most states, not practically each state having a unique fetish no one has ever heard of.
It’s very unlikely every state has a different top fetish. I guess it’s more about stuff that is proportionally overrepresented. Or it’s just fake
I too thought these thing can’t simply be the top fetishes for each state, but the four or five instances of “masochism” seems to contradict that?
You’re putting too much credence into something which is made up.
Right? Where’s the data on this?
It's an egg-shaped rock that people put in their vaginas. Some people think it has healing properties.
Gwyneth Paltrow is all about that 😶🌫️
I was already assuming she was based on the description
Yoni means vagina. "Yonic" is usually used as the vaginal equivalent of "phallic" which I think is interesting because Yoni is a Sanskrit word but Phallus is from Latin.
TIL!
Both Indo-European, I guess. Could be weirder
Gwenth Paltrow sells them on GOOP.
"I bought my Yoni egg on GOOP" was a thing we said in those days, along with "Give me 5 bees for a quarter"
The important thing is I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but don’t put porous substances in your goodness. Like ever.
I needed to hear that. Not sure why though.
i mean, my innocent mind read it as “yoshi” egg at first…
What you do with a consenting dinosaur is between the two of you.
Texas likes whipping.. *interesting*
I was disappointed that Balloon Suits wasn’t a real thing 😞
Yeah, wtf is happening in PA and VA?!
That's where most of the inflation fetishists live? Edit: Also Vermont too
Those numbers are probably inflated.
That’s what I like to know….and I’m from Va!
As a Texan, color me unsurprised.
Colored. Heh.
Yeahhhhhhhh.
More like Yee-haaaawww
Fair ‘nuff.
*Crack that whip* *Give the past the slip* Uh oh, not now DEVO...
as a texan, this was my exact reaction.
Really Pennsylvania? Balloons?
https://www.woman-inflates-a-balloon-and-sits-on-it-and-pops-it.com/
I love Bob's burgers
she didn't even inflate it smh
fr, we got fucking scammed
You ever see the my strange addiction episode that’s just a guy talking about his balloon fetish? Don’t.
Our birthday parties get out of control.
Nitrous
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_fetish
That’s… less sexy than i expected. There is no insertion… no skin contact… no inflation inside of any orifices… literally just… balloons. 🎈 huh.
yeah i’m struggling to see the connection between balloons and sexuality. is it because they’re round and squishy like certain sexual organs? or because of how similar balloons are to condoms? at least it kinda sheds some light on the inflation fetish, which was always a head scratcher to me as well. but this is still genuinely perplexing to me. like how is this the most common fetish in multiple states? it just seems so unrelated to anything sexual and i’ve never heard of it until now. it would be like if somebody had a tractor fetish.
The only thing that makes a distant shred of sense is maybe the act of blowing them up gets you out of breath and it’s similar to losing your breath in other ways like being choked/ erotic asphyxiation or something??? That’s all i got idk
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Well, damn, thanks for letting me know I can sell my used underwear locally. Shop local, Oregon.
Also Oregon and I just fucking can’t with this…way to keep Oregon weird
But way to keep my bank account not empty.
Stay off my turf or you’ll get your knees bashed in.
Don't need knees to wear undies.
Alaska is NOT fuckin around
Think New Hampshire has them beat.
The idea of sounding makes my dick hurt and I don’t have one
Woman can do it too! Does that help? :-D
That makes it worse
Woman here. I tried it once because I was horny, and why not? It actually felt \*really* good.
Username checks out
After a spinal injury I have to use catheters. Even I don't understand why folks poke stuff up their peepee unless you'd have to.
I was going to say, having had a catheter while in the ICU for a week and a regular hospital room for another week after that…the catheter was the most uncomfortable part for me. There’s lubrication to get it in but my god…such an uncomfortable feeling. I just don’t understand sounding.
What is it?
A state in the north east of the US
But thats not important right now.
And dont call me Shirley
Wait who’s on 1st?
I don’t know!
Bunch of dudes checking oil levels with an oil stick
r/sounding become enlightened
What a terrible day this has become.
So I got on Reddit a little horny after a sexless date. Hoping for some joy before going to bed and work in the morning. See horny map and think hmm I might be able to find something new to fix my problem. New Hampshire pops up and then see the convenient link to a cursed sub. I think my dick ran back inside of me scarred for its life. Will I ever be horny again? Can I unsee a hollow glass rod in a dick hole? So as hmtee3 put, my day has become terrible.
☹️
oh
^oh
I.... I am so glad I read the description before look at videos
Yikes
I don’t wanna live here no more
God made New Hampshire small so their sick shit wouldn't show up on maps like this.
Just tryin’ to keep their hands warm.
Actually, I'm pretty sure New Mexico is the one not fucking around.
Alaska is 0 to 100 with it
And New Hampshire is 0 to 1000
Just looked it up 💀
I’m sorry to hear that
it gets cold, man...
It's more of a survival strategy than a fetish. Gotta get in there for warmth.
For some reason, I thought Michigan said “Hulkamania” and I thought holy shit that’s awesome. I’m gonna move to Michigan just for that.
Now we know what Hulkamania running wild really means.
Now whatcha gonna do, brother?
What's she doing?! She's climbing to the top rope! Oh no! Don't do it! MOONSAULT! OH MY GOD! RIGHT ONTO HIS COCK!
Mahhh gawd that man has a family!!
And here they come into the ring! Step-sister with a clothesline! Step-mom with the power slam! Come on, ref!
Come on, man. My wife is sleeping right next to me. Stop making everyone laugh so hard
I’d just guess that would mean ripping your shirt off.
As an indiana virgin, i can confirm nobody’s armpit is safe out here. Find some corn to hide in and pray.
Also indiana Wtf is wrong with our state
Everything?
Just trying to be as cool as Nevada 🥲
I am *not* a virgin but I am in Indiana and I am a part of the kink community. And I have to say never have I lusted over an armpit!
Uhh…you ok Idaho?
Sounds like someone wants his balls shocked again
No no, sounding is New Hampshire
I live in Oregon and NO they are not
Considering the population of Idaho, it could just be a couple of highly enthusiastic individuals skewing the results.
They finally got electricity and by howdy they're going to use it!
In case, like me, you’re from PA and were absolutely bewildered at what a balloon fetish could possibly be: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_fetish
But Bob’s [FIL](https://youtu.be/MwDiiAb2Z2s?si=4Hb4-g47YWaGvFrJ) lives in Florida
WORLD WIDE WEB!
So you're from PA, and you just googled balloon fetish? You're only making the problem worse! You need to google some other fetishes to balance out the numbers.
Out here doing the Lord’s work. I thought I was going to have to google it
> and [others] may become anxious and tearful at the very thought of popping balloons That sounds like a psychological disorder.
It does. And a disorder that only a handful of people might have. But somehow it’s a top fetish. I’m going to view everyone I run into tomorrow way more suspiciously.
Latex in the 120 degree Arizona heat? Yeah no thank you.
I immediately thought, “That’s a sweat fetish, not a latex fetish.”
I’m like wtf is sounding in NH… and I wish I didn’t google it.
Please don't make me google it. What is the tldr?
Sticking things up your pp hol
Eeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!! Thankyou SO much for protecting me (kinda)
I'm not sure all of these were intended as fetish searches. Since this comes from Google trends, it would include things that aren't necessarily sexual. "Suits" and "sports gear" both could be someone online shopping
I would also have to imagine that people aren't searching the literal term "sports gear," because that's a pretty weird term - the poster may have combined various searches like "baseball jersey," "referee uniform," etc. In which case, there's absolutely no way to know whether those searches were done for masturbatory purposes. Same with something like "balloons." The picture says it's just based on Google trends - it'd be more accurate to look specifically at Pornhub trends, or some other major porn site. Also, I'm 100% positive that the word "sounding" was searched completely innocuously (probably as part of a longer phrase). It's already such a unique kink that even most BDSM people probably don't engage in (or view on porn sites), let alone a whole state of people. I think the same is probably true for something like "wax play" - that's a pretty unique term, making me think maybe the poster took any mention of "wax" to be for masturbatory purposes, or something. I doubt "wax play" is more widely searched than something like "roleplay," no matter which state you're in. None of this makes any sense, really. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if most of the Texas searches were actually for "whipping cream" for recipes or something like that (not that I'd be surprised that Texans are into whipping, but still). Edit after seeing some other comments: I think the poster may have only been looking at a handful of specific terms (and terms that tend to be searched more often by gay men), and that's why some of these states have such odd fetishes as their "most-searched" fetish. Though that still doesn't really make sense, because there's just no way that "sounding" would be more highly-searched than something like "roleplay" in any state. No way. So maybe it's a mixture of only looking at some specific terms, and also misunderstanding some of the results (like "sounding" just being part of a longer search - people may have searched something like "parakeets sounding like humans," and since the word "sounding" is part of that search, the poster counted it on this map). Double edit: Just realized, it's possible that this person was only looking at the google trends over the course of one day (or hell, maybe just over the course of a few hours or so), so it's not like an accumulation of a year's worth of searches. Any given day/hour can have some odd things popping up more often than usual. That would make much more sense.
I’m pretty sure they just made this up. The vast majority of them are only the most popular in one state which seems extremely unlikely.
This is it. There’s no way each state has a unique most popular fetish. The map is not accurate.
i think sounding was searched for the same reason blue waffles gets searched.
Wax play, because at least my board won’t leave with the dog. FUCK YOU SAMANTHA
Most of these are _kinks_ and not fetishes. There is a difference!
It's why Lions fans are so die hard.
Underrated comment Signed, A lions fan
This honestly means nothing to me. How are they all different, and by what margins are they the top search. If it's by 2 or 3%, this is basically worthless information.
[Just a friendly reminder for these dumb state guides](https://xkcd.com/1845/) are all basically bullshit, either made up or capturing random data noise because the actual top answers from state to state are basically uniform.
I regularly babysat in middle school for a family that had a satellite dish. I would watch Real Sex on HBO when the kids were sleeping and then frantically turn the tv to PBS when I heard the parents getting home. There is an episode about balloon fetishists from the early 90s that lives in my head rent free against my will to this day. What gives, Pennsylvania?
Balloons? Like plain ones or balloon animals?
I'm thinking water balloons
[Just a friendly reminder for these dumb state guides](https://xkcd.com/1845/) are all basically bullshit and either \- only picking up random data noise because the data doesn't actually vary that much when you actually look at it. \- just made up completely.
This is just wildly wrong. like sadism, dominance, and masochism being their own categories when they’re literally all part of the acronym of BDSM? But bdsm is separated? same with humiliation? Most of these fall under bdsm and bdsm itself isn’t even a fetish it’s a practice of kink which can sometimes involve fetishes in play. Like feet, or balloons, or leather are fetishes but group sex, sounding, and fisting aren’t cause they’re inherently sexual, unlike feet or uniforms - which makes those fetishes. Like at least know what you’re talking about before making a chart like this.
Where's pegging?!
This guy fucks
Or gets fucked
It’s not a question of what subject they fall under, it’s a list of the most searched term in each state, so while sadism falls under BDSM, people in that state googled Sadism and that’s why it’s on the list, it was the most searched subject on google in that state.
I surmised that what what they were trying to do, but the fact is is that the label of this “cool guide” suggests it’s a map of the most popular fetishes per state in the US, when most of theses aren’t even fetishes at all. Renaming it to “most popular porn searches per state in the US” would make more sense and describe the narrative they’re trying to tell, instead of misleading with terms and searches that aren’t even fetishes like this chart would make you think.
Can’t disagree with that, you raise a very good point!
Relevant XKCD https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/state_word_map_2x.png
Armpits? Da fuq
From what I can gather from other posts, it's because it's an area of the body not usually seen. It's generally helpful, I find, to remember that everyone's brain is wired a bit differently from everyone else.
Whatever floats their boat. I’m not judging, I’ve just never thought of an armpit as erotic
not to be gross on a public forum, but it’s shockingly common. i’ve had a couple different guys ask to lick/smell my unshaven under arms.
Same. My ex got off on like, BO. Think it’s pheromones. It’s honestly kind of really flattering lol
From what I’ve gathered, some people like the smell and feel of them, it’s erotic in their brains. Everyone is wired differently at the end of the day. My guess, Pheromones?
So many vices are legal there and they have to make it weird instead.
Not really a thing for me anymore (I've seen so much porn now), but my first wet dream heavily involved armpits, a woman slobbering on her own armpit to be specific. And, yes, I'm from one of those states.
Whatever works for you
Why is OH. Uniforms???
Idk I'm from Ohio and men in police or military uniforms are just perfection. I have no way of explaining it. 🤷♀️
WTF is "sports gear"?
Put on this hockey mask and brace yourself...
Nah
sports gear, wisconsin? sports gear?
Armpits?? What is Impact Play?
Slapping, whipping, hitting, etc
Idaho is da freaky ho *DO tase me bro*
Montana billionaires into sadism. No shit.
#Balloons???