Category: Stats / Research
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Academic Shoots Down ‘Public Health Crisis’ Theory
With all due respect to ScienceAlert, it’s a shame this great article is not being carried by a bigger platform. A point by point takedown of this ludicrous trend of branding porn usage as a public health crisis, it’s a superlative piece of research. It doesn’t shy away from pointing […]
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PornHub Funding ‘Research’ Into Long Term Porn Effects
A few months ago it was reported that PornHub was setting up a research grant to look into the long-term effects of porn viewing. Now they have revealed the team that will receive the $25,000 research purse. A group of three academics from the University of Kansas have been chosen. […]
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ISPs Warned Against UK Internet Blocks
The British price comparison and consumer market research site MoneySupermarket has released some damning stats regarding content blocks. With net neutrality issues and age verification for porn viewing on the horizon, ISPs would do well to heed their advice. The research shows that nearly two-thirds of people would switch ISPs […]
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xHamster Traffic Mirrors World Cup Fortunes
Some very interesting statistics have been released by xHamster regarding traffic movement during the 2018 World Cup. As you can see from the image above, the countries of the teams that went out earliest saw them looking for other things to entertain them. I’m expecting the figure for England to […]
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‘Porn For Women’ Searches Rise 1400% In A Year
Photo courtesy of The Daily Mail / Dr. Nikki Goldstein Pornhub has revealed that searches for ‘porn for women’ rose over 1400% in 2017 – and it’s especially in Australia where female-orientated porn seems to be kicking in. Now it’s believed that a third of all porn watched in Australia […]
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Fidget Spinner Crazy Hits Porn
I wasn’t sure if the stupid fidget spinner craze that has caught on seemingly in the last couple of weeks was an international thing or not – but according to this Refinery 29 piece, it would seem that it is. That’s because Pornhub have reported a massive spike in searches […]
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Pornhub Reveals VR Viewing Figures
Well, VR porn has been around just about long enough now for us to be able to ascertain just how much of an impact it has had in ‘reviving’ the fortunes of the porn industry. Its arrival was heralded as being the new VHS in terms of the way porn […]
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“5 To 15%” Of Internet Is Porn
That little? I’d personally say the 30% mark that they mention in this article but dismiss as being ‘inaccurate’ is actually far closer to the mark. Of course, quite how they measure this is completely impossible to tell and surely completely flawed in its methodology. Even so, it’s nice to […]
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“Kids As Young As 5” Being Exposed To Porn
It infuriates me when I read this kind of thing. Look. I’m not denying for one moment that there may well be 5 year olds out there, somewhere, who have seen porn – either accidentally or otherwise. I accept that. But how is this the fault of porn? That is […]
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Pornhub Reports Rise In ‘Pizza Porn’ Searches
One of the first websites I reviewed when I became a porn reviewer was Big Sausage Pizza. It’s the kind of site you don’t forget anyway, but even more eye-opening when it’s one of the first you look at! It can’t be a coincidence that I’ve barely had a pizza […]
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Porn Metadata Could Hold Human Sexuality Answers
In what has to be one of the most academic and scientific articles ever written about human sexuality, a writer for The Guardian has mapped porn metadata to explore the recent evolution of human sexuality. I have to say that my tiny mind is not capable of processing everything here, but […]