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The Year Everyone Got Horny
Leave it to months of social isolation to bring out peoples’ kinkier sides online
Though it feels like light-years ago, last January gave us the debut of Gwyneth Paltrow’s vagina-scented candle, an electrifying hug between Brad Pitt and Jen Aniston, and an eerily portentous dating show called Love Is Blind. So with a lusty start like that, it should come as no surprise that 2020 has turned out to be one of the internet’s horniest years on record.
When the term “horny on main’’ first became a fixture of internet meme culture circa 2016, it was considered to be an embarrassing and pathetic quality bestowed upon those unable to keep their chaste public and filthy private lives separate on social media. When Ted Cruz’s Twitter account was caught liking a clip of incest porn, he was guilty of being horny on main. As was Pope Francis when his official Instagram account liked a picture of adult entertainer Natalia Garibotto dressed as a lingerie-clad school girl in November. And who could forget the overly enthusiastic Beto O’Rouke supporter who penned a 2018 viral tweet comparing the presidential campaigns of Richard Ojeda and Michael Avenatti to “the guy who thinks good sex is pumping away,” while Beto is more like “the guy who is all sweet and nerdy but holds you down and makes you cum until your calves cramp.” But…
