What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

by Aubrey Gordon

In A Billion Wicked Thoughts, Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam analyzed history’s largest data bank on pornography viewers. They found that regardless of gender and sexual orientation, porn searches for fat bodies significantly outpaced searches for thin bodies. In fact, fat porn was the sixteenth most popular category, outranking categories like “anal sex” (#18), “group sex” (#24), “fellatio” (#28), and “skinny” (#30).1 “For every search for a ‘skinny’ girl, there are almost three searches for a ‘fat’ girl.”2 Gay men’s searches, too, revealed far more searches for “bears” (burly or fat men) than “twinks” (young, thin men).