In a statement to online magazine “Death and Taxes”, a spokesperson for porn giant xHamster has said searches for Pokémon-related pornography has rapidly increased.

For some people, video games are their life. A lot of us grew up with games on the brain, spending countless summers reaching for new heights in our favorite titles. For some people however, maybe that’s not enough.

If you’ve stuck with this site for a while, you may have caught our previous articles on video game related porn. While some of the content is fairly innocuous, some of it is arguably “out there”. While we wouldn’t want to kink shame anyone, our article on Minecraft porn probably raised at least a few eyebrows.

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That news surfaced thanks to PornHub, who released data showing that search interest had increased massively. Interest exploded by some 330%, coinciding with the game’s ever-increasing popularity. PornHub also released information that showed Overwatch porn had shot up by a massive 800% during its open beta. Sometimes you just want to get jiggy with your favorite video game character.

It seems like there’s a trend here. If a game gets popular enough, like Minecraft and Overwatch did, bodily fluids start to flow.

Never has this been truer. Unless you live under a rock, you’ll have heard of Pokémon Go, the latest craze. It’s taken the US by storm, and nearly surpassing Twitter in active users. While that’s impressive in itself, Pokémon Go has also managed to solidify itself as one of the top searches on certain adult websites.

In a statement to Death and Taxes, an online magazine, a spokesperson for xHamster noted that Poké-porn was on the rise. Not only on the rise, but it had kicked down the door, invited itself in and taken over.

“In the last five days we have seen a giant shift in porn searches. Our top searches, which usually consist of ‘MILF,’ ‘Teen,’ and ‘Interracial’ have been replaced with ‘Pokemon,’ ‘Pikachu,’ ‘Hentai,’ and ‘Anime” – xHamster

It’s not just xHamster, either. While PornHub hasn’t released any figures (though they probably will), we visited their website regardless. We could barely write “p” in the search box before a whole host of Pokémon related suggestions appeared. Just take a look at the Poké-porn suggestions for yourself.

Of course, we know from recent events that Nintendo isn’t too pleased with pornographic depictions of their IP. Still, when something gets as big as Pokémon Go has, nobody can stop it. In the wake of Pokemon Go, however, Nintendo’s stock value has also shot up — by some 25% — so they’re probably not too concerned right now.

This could be the point where future humans look back to how it all began, a sort of Rosetta Stone moment. With Pokémon Go’s worldwide release just around the corner, things could change forever. The US is already in the grips of Pokémon hysteria, and apparently we’re all quite alright with the idea of mating with our furry friends.

Here’s to the next step in human evolution.

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