Britain’s biggest kinks by city revealed, from grannies to feet

Whether your sexual kink involves role play or something a little more unsavoury, like ‘cum walks’, the secret is about to be out.

The biggest sexual kinks for each UK city have been revealed after researchers trawled through Britain’s search history to expose just what get’s us going.

When it comes to Londoners, they’re pretty vanilla, but Leeds and Birmingham both seem to have a slightly unexpected fetish.

The study, conducted by porn site BabeStation, found the top search across the nation was ‘UK models’ when it came to pleasuring themselves, but when it looked at individual cities, there were some naughtier searches taking the crown.

Starting with the capital, Londoners get off on lesbian porn, with the most common search being for ‘girl on girl’ adult content.

It’s not all that surprising given that lesbian porn is also very popular with women, and it was the fourth most searched for category on Pornhub in 2024.

Londoners love getting down and dirty too, although not always responsibly, given the London borough of the City of Westminster has the highest rates of syphilis, gonorrhoea and genital warts per 100,000 people in the country.

In the south, Bristol was also fairly vanilla with ‘couples’ porn being the most searched for. But as we head to the midlands and further north, things start to head up a little.

Birmingham residents have been dipping their toes into some good old fashioned foot fetish content.

Sex therapist Aliyah Moore previously told Metro that food fetishes aren’t uncommon and that happy experiences with our feet early on in life can help shape this kink.

‘Chance sightings of bare feet, positive reinforcement during foot-related activities, or early sexual experiences involving feet could all have been factors,’ Aliyah said.

‘How the particular body part is portrayed in the media or how society views them might influence a person’s tastes and cause a foot fetish.’

A University of Bologna study found 47% percent of body part fetishists got off on feet content. Among those people preferring objects related to body parts, footwear (shoes, boots, etc.) was the second most popular, too. So if this is what floats your boat, you certainly aren’t alone.

Sheffield locals have a predisposition to MILFs, with searches for mother figures being extremely popular. It’s surprising that more cities don’t also share this as the most alluring kink, given its the second most searched for term on PornHub.

But just an hour up the road in Leeds, locals are looking for women who have aged like fine wine, with the most searched for term being ‘grannies’.

Interestingly, Golden Age content (featuring senior men and women) was the biggest sex trend of the year back in 2023, with mature porn becoming the second most popular category on PornHub.

It was also the fifth most popular category for women, while searches for the term granny jumped 132% that year.

‘The real surprise this year is that grannies have overtaken lesbians,’ a BabeStation spokesperson says. ‘It shows just how adventurous viewers are getting.’

Liverpudlians have the opposite preference preferring ‘college’ porn with young men and women performing for the camera. It’s a preference that has come under scrutiny, ever since Bonnie Blue began selling content by taking university students’ virginities in Freshers week.

In Manchester, locals are adopting a more-the-merrier approach, with ‘threesome’ being the number one searched for term.

This was the 13th most popular term on Pornhub last year, with the allure of a third party seemingly never getting old.

So, do you share the same kink as the rest of your neighbours?

Do you have a story to share?

Get in touch by emailing MetroLifestyleTeam@Metro.co.uk.

Comments