For whatever reason, Andrew Sullivan is giving me lots of blogging fodder today. Thanks! Looking here, he points out the new Google Trends search, which lets you see who's searching for what, and where. Andy notes that searches for "sex' are highest in "Pakistan, followed by Egypt, Iran, India, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Hmmm. It couldn't have anything to do with all that Muslim repression, could it?"
Putting aside that the trend tracker works by cities, and Delhi, Cairo, Ankara, and Istanbul are some of the densest areas of the world, my guess is that those folks are just less sophisticated sex searchers. Here in the good ol' US of A, we've taken the capitalistic instinct for specialization and applied it to the erotic with unmatched vigor. So while the simple libidos of Ankara are stuck searching for an anodyne world that also means gender, us Americans are feeling lucky about schoolgirl bukake foot fetishes, or whatever the hell some spambot put into my comments.
