What Porn Searches Reveal About Each Generation in 2025

Every year, Pornhub’s Year in Review offers a surprisingly honest snapshot of cultural change. While people often pretend that sexuality exists outside politics, technology, and generational identity, the data tells a different story: each age group brings its own desires, anxieties, and fantasies into the bedroom and the search bar.

The 2025 breakdown of “Top Relative Categories by Generation” shows four distinct sexual landscapes for Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, and Boomers. These aren’t just porn preferences, they’re reflections of how each generation experiences intimacy, power, technology, and identity.

So let’s break it down.

Gen Z: Digital, Performative, and Fantasy-Driven

Top categories: Party (+385%), Feet (+347%), POV (+301%), Virtual Reality (+271%), Vertical Video (+228%), Romantic (+209%), Cosplay (+192%), Hentai (+171%).

Gen Z, sweetheart… are you okay??

You kids are out here searching “party porn” like you’re manifesting the social life TikTok promised you but reality cruelly denied. Meanwhile, your obsession with “vertical video” means you’ll watch sex as long as it fits neatly onto your phone screen, like fast food for your eyeballs.

And VR? Incredible. Nothing screams “eye contact is scary” like strapping a computer to your face so you can raw-dog polygons in 360°.

Also: romantic porn? ADORABLE. You roast Millennials for being cringe, but you’re the ones watching two people hold hands before they smash. Gen Z is basically “I want intimacy but also I’m terrified of it — so please provide it in anime form.”

Gen Z leans heavily toward digitally-native desire. This is the first group to grow up with smartphones, social media, and algorithm-driven intimacy and their porn habits show it.

Millennials: Experimentation Meets Realism

Top categories: Fetish (+152%), Role Play (+136%), Squirt (+134%), Red Head (+119%), Toys (+91%), Reality (+76%), Handjob (+73%), Big Ass (+67%).

Millennials, listen. I say this with affection: You had some chaotic sex education in the 90s and early 2000s and you’ve been over compensating ever since.

You’re out here like “I process my trauma through Role Play because therapy costs $200 a session.”

The fetish spike? Yeah, that tracks. Millennials are the generation that introduced the world to color-coded kink spreadsheets and Google Calendar sex appointments.

Also, “Reality.” Of COURSE you’re into reality porn. This is the generation that thinks “running errands together” is foreplay.

And the rise in “Red Head,” “Toys,” and “Big Ass” says “I want adventure… but only after my melatonin kicks in.”

Millennials want novelty (fetish, toys) but also familiarity (body types, natural performers). Their porn mirrors a generation negotiating work-life balance, emotional exhaustion, and the hunt for meaningful pleasure.

Gen X: Intensity, Power, and Nostalgia

Top categories: Fisting (+252%), Bukkake (+209%), Blonde (+142%), Vintage (+129%), Double Penetration (+117%), Bisexual Male (+111%), Orgy (+102%), Bondage (+93%).

GEN X.
WHAT.
IS.
GOING.
ON.

You went straight from “I don’t care what the kids are doing” to “Bukkake? Fisting? Don’t mind if I do.”

This is the generation that never got enough attention as latchkey kids, so now they’re searching “Double Penetration” like it’s a personality test.

And VINTAGE?? Yes, please romanticize the porn you probably watched on VHS while your parents were out buying cigarettes. “Vintage” reflects a longing for earlier eras of sexuality — less scripted, less manicured, more rebellious.

“Bisexual Male” ranking high has big “I’m not coming out, but I’m leaving breadcrumbs” energy. A notable presence that hints at Gen X men are exploring desires that were stigmatized in their youth. Porn becomes a low-risk space for identity fluidity.

Gen X porn searches are basically “Life is chaos, everyone disappoints me, the world is ending — let’s get WEIRD.”

Boomers: Classic Arousal and Companionship-Based Fantasy

Top categories: Brunette (+142%), Babe (+125%), Casting (+101%), Mature (+85%), Interracial (+80%), Threesome (+78%), Massage (+76%), Cuckold (+74%).

Boomers, you beautiful old perverts.
You are the only generation whose top category is simply… “Brunette.”

Peak heterosexual energy.
No notes.

“Babe”?
Classic.

“Casting”?
Oh, so THAT’S why you think every job interview is an opportunity.

“Mature” makes sense, you’re just looking for someone who remembers rotary phones and doesn’t judge your knee braces.

“Cuckold,” though? Boomers stay surprising.

This is the generation that invented HOA drama; no wonder they love watching complicated interpersonal betrayals.

"Massage" trending fits with an age group often navigating physical aging and craving sensuality rather than high-velocity scenes.

Boomer porn preferences scream “I like my erotica like I like my appliances — familiar, durable, and probably from 1987.”

What These Generational Differences Reveal About Us

Across all age groups, porn doesn’t just show what people search for, it shows what people miss, fear, want, and fantasize about within their cultural context.

Gen Z wants immersion and fantasy. They crave digital closeness, POV intimacy, and worlds beyond their own.

Millennials want exploration with authenticity. They blend kink with a grounded desire for relatability.

Gen X wants intensity and release. Their tastes combine extreme content and nostalgic throwbacks.

Boomers want story, sensuality, and classic porn tropes. Their desires lean toward touch, simplicity, and interpersonal narratives.

Porn isn’t the cause of generational differences, it’s a reflection of them. And whether we admit it or not, our search bars are often more honest than we are.