Sex experts reveal the top fetishes in every US state for 2025… so how kinky is YOURS?
It may be more than a box of chocolates or flowers that your partner is thinking about this Valentines Day.
Researchers have analyzed data on millions of searches online so far this year to reveal America’s most popular kinks and fetishes.
Overall, the team found that the ‘giantess’ fantasy — sexual fascination with women who are significantly larger than normal — was the most popular nationwide.
Vore — or the fantasy of being eaten or eating someone else — was the second most popular, while there was also ‘tremendous growth’ in interest in fantasies like chastity, ball-bust — inflicting pain on a man’s testicles — and pegging — where a woman penetrates a man — which the analysts said saw a surge in interest.
By state, analysts found that Vore and Giantess fantasies tended to be more popular in states on the West coast and in the North East and Mid-West.
In southern states, ‘wrestling’ and ‘tickling’ were popular.
Avery Martin, from the fetish website Clips4Sale (C4S), said analysts picked up a shift in preference more towards people fantasizing about powerful women.
He said: ‘It may be alphas in the streets, but it’s beta in the sheets.’
Overall, the team found that the ‘giantess’ fantasy — sexual fascination with women who are significantly larger than normal — was the most popular nationwide
‘We’ve seen tremendous growth not only in giantess and vore fantasies, but also chastity, ballbusting and pegging.
‘While there’s a public resurgence of masculine energy, privately men are fantasizing about powerful women.’
Clips4Share found that by state, Vore was the most popular fetish – with it ranking the highest in Arkansas, California, Georgia, Hawaii, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada and Vermont.
Wrestling also showed significant growth, both by volume and number of states, including Colorado, Massachusetts, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Carolina.
Coming in third was Giantess – with it being the most searched in the states of Arizona, Indiana, New York, New Jersey and District of Columbia.
On the other hand, the state of Iowa mostly searched for biting while Rhode Island showed more interest in smoking.
The predominately Mormon state of Utah, where roughly 42 percent of people belong to the Church and 59 percent voted Republican in 2024, mostly searched for balloons.
Ballbusting – defined as being turned on by painful acts to the testicles, like hitting or squeezing – also showed tremendous popularity in family-loving state of Connecticut.
While searches for CPR, biting, face sitting, gagging and enema soar in 2025, it is the Giantess kink that is once again dominating searches this year
In stark comparison, pantyhose was the preferred fetish by New Hampshire and Ohio.
According to Astro Domina, a Seattle-based dominatrix and fetish producer, those interested in the ‘giantess’ kink – also known as macrophilia – like to be ‘shrunken down and crushed’.
‘In this little scenario or fantasy of theirs, they want to be shrunken down into an ant size human being.
‘And at the end of each scenario, they either want to be eaten, which is called War fetish they want to be also what do you call it? This crushed by either my foot or my ass? So there’s many different ways to that.
‘So that’s pretty odd. And it’s not I think, I would love to say that it’s a pretty common fetish, but it’s really not. The giantess fetish is a very tight community, and they all support each other, which is absolutely amazing,’ she told UNILAD.
Dr Mark Griffiths, a psychologist and professor of behavioral addiction at Nottingham Trent University in the UK noted that a majority of macrophiles are straight men.
He also revealed that the roots of macrophilia lie in childhood and early adolescence, ‘where sexual arousal is, at first, accidentally associated with giants – maybe watching a TV program where a giantess initiates feelings of sexual arousal’.
Coming in second is vore – explained as the fantasy of being consumed by a giantess or to the process of eating in general.
The ‘edible’ kink was most popular in Arkansas, California, Georgia, Hawaii, Michigan, Vermont and the fun-loving state of Nevada.
However, while every year the searches for new fetishes continue to rise, the stigma associated with it does not seem to vanish away – with celebrities revealing that they have kink shamed their partners.
In January 2025, Lily Allen opened up about her sex life with husband David Harbour , revealing he requested ‘kinky sex’ prior to their shock split
In January 2025, Lily Allen opened up about her sex life with husband David Harbour, revealing he requested ‘kinky sex’ prior to their shock split.
The 39-year-old singer reportedly ended her five-year relationship with the Stranger Things actor, 49, after allegedly discovering his profile on the celebrity dating app Raya.
While neither of them have publicly addressed the situation, the singer previously hinted at issues in their relationship during an episode of her podcast, Miss Me?
Speaking with her co-host and best friend Miquita Oliver, she had said in summer last year: ‘I wonder if I kink-shame my husband. Because he quite often asks for things, and I’m like: ‘No, babe, it’s not happening.’
‘I’m not like: !You piece of s***, how dare you ask me to do that!” I’m just like: “Hmm, headache. Little headache, got a bit of a headache – maybe not tonight.”‘
