investigating the appeal of MILFs. But it’s reasonable to presume that at least some of the interest in MILFs depends on psychological cues. The terms “aggressive” and “seduction” appear on the vast majority of MILF sites, including My Friend’s Mom and Mommy Got Boobs. The “MILF-lovers” Facebook group asserts in its mission statement, “We love the experience and confidence of the older woman. How she is comfortable seducing a young guy, then fucking him with abandon and no romantic complications.” MILF sites typically feature innocent young men who are seduced by aggressive older women. The self-assured Mrs. Robinson, who seduces a very young Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate , is perhaps the most famous MILF in cinema.
Though the self-confidence of the MILF appears to be essential to her appeal to the male brain, she also seems to present a number of visual cues that activate male desire. Most MILFs in online porn are busty, curvy, with large, round butts. This is often reflected in the titles of Web sites: My Busty MILF, MILF Ass, Busty Moms Videos, Sexy Ass MILF, Busty MILF Pics.
Many men find both young and adult women to be appealing. On AOL, one out of four people who searched for MILFS also searched for teens. Intriguingly, there is a similar level of overlap between searches for teens and searches for another age-related sexual interest known as GILFs. About one out of four GILF searchers also searched for teens. So what does GILF stand for? Granny I’d Like to Fuck.
Here is the abbreviated AOL search history of one granny fan, Mr. Playstation:
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Many people find GILFs to be squicky. After all, if men are free to search for any porn they desire, surely they’ll avoid postmenopausal women? Such thinking, apparently, is uninformed ageism. Though it’s true that the total number of granny searches amounts to less than 8 percent of the total youth searches, there are more sexual searches for grannies (#19) than for spanking (#25) . But are GILFs truly that popular? Perhaps it’s simply some particular eccentricity of Dogpile users?
Alexa is a company that measures traffic to different Web sites through the use of its Alexa toolbar. Alexa publishes a list of the million most popular Web sites in the world. According to our analysis, 42,337 of these Web sites were adult sites in March 2010, or about 4 percent of all sites. We’ll call this set of the most popular adult sites in the world the Alexa Adult List .
Out of the 42,337 sites on the Alexa Adult List, 313 are granny sites. In fact, there’s an active and well-defined community of granny porn enthusiasts, with sites such as GILF Porn, Tube Granny, and Granny Rides Again. The popularity of GILFs presents a serious challenge for evolutionary science. A broad body of research has demonstrated that men prefer smooth skin to wrinkles and long, lustrous hair to short, gray frizz. What might be going on with all these searches for sexy women of a certain age?
Two countries boasting the highest interest in granny porn are Kenya and England. In Kenya, the “rules of sexual shame” encourage young people to discuss sexual matters with grandparents. Among the Kisii, the grandmother is often the confidante of her grandchildren regarding sexual experiences and sexual technique. In fact, for many Kisii boys, their first acquisition of sexual knowledge from a woman comes from an older woman.
Following a somewhat different pattern, the United Kingdom features a widespread boarding school culture involving strict rules, corporal punishment, and severe, elderly matrons. “There’s a lot of interest in older ladies from the Brits because when a lot of them were schoolboys they were spanked or slapped or pinched by a schoolmarm,”