Ready For Some Fun Facts About Porn?

Here’s your first fact about porn: 99% of us watch it.

On an average day, 30 million watch porn at any given moment.

So you can imagine that right now, Pornhub is creaming itself with excitement at the influx of users.

And if you’re stuck at home because of quarantine and social distancing, now’s the perfect time to do it.

Check out these porn facts:

1. The sex industry is the most lucrative in the world.

2. 13,000 porn movies are created each year, generating an estimated $13 billion.

1. Compare that to Hollywood, who only churns out about 507 movies and $8.8 billion annually.
2. Not only that, but porn revenue makes more money than the combined profits of both sports and television shows.
3. “Teen porn” is the most frequently searched Google term.
4. But in the United States, “creampie” is the other most popular search.
5. 25% of Google queries are porn-related — in the US, that’s about 68 million searches every day.
6. Pornography consumption and distribution is punishable by death in North Korea and Iran.
7. Believe it or not, presidential elections impact porn usage.
8. For example, when Bush won in 2004, viewership surged in red states. On the other hand, when Obama won in 2008, porn usage in blue states increased.

1. Porn makes up 50% of all online content.

2. The average male sees his first pornographic video around 10 years old.
3. Most teens learn about sex through porn.
4. You may already know this fact about porn, but male porn stars make less than their female counterparts.
5. But, men who act in gay porn make three times more than both men and women.
6. The US leads the way in porn film production, with Germany close behind.
7. Every 39 minutes in the US, a new porn movie is made.
9. 20% of men have viewed porn at work, but that number is probably higher.
10. That’s because peak porn use happens during the workday.
11. Women aren’t exempt — 13% admit they’ve watched porn at work.
12. 88.2% of the top-rated porn movies involve the male actor using some form of violence.
13. What do you concentrate on when you watch porn? Most men focus on the woman’s face because it shows her level of arousal.
14. In the UK, porn site traffic ranks higher than social media, retail, and gaming combined.
15. Here’s a fun fact about porn and women: Not only do most women consume pornography, but lesbian porn is the top genre for most female viewers.

1. 10% of adults are addicted to porn.
2. The average American spends about 10 minutes during each session on Pornhub.

3. During Super Bowl XLIII, Comcast unintentionally televised 37 seconds of porn.

4. And in 2013, a Syrian national broadcast aired 10 minutes of porn in the background.
5. Runners up include the UK in second and Germany in third.
6. Mississippi, Hawaii, and Arkansas have the most prolonged porn-watching sessions.
7. On the other hand, those with the shortest spans include Rhode Island, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
8. In 2013, 1.68 million people per hour visited Pornhub for the whole year — that’s more than 14 billion visits.
9. People vs. Freeman, a 1988 court case, deemed porn films were protected under free speech, provided it involved consenting adults and wasn’t harmful.
10. 70% if men between 18 and 24 visit online porn sites monthly.
11. Sundays are the most popular day of the week for watching porn. And the least popular day of the year? Thanksgiving.
12. The history of porn is tough to define since it’s such a subjective subject matter.
13. Here’s a fact about porn you definitely didn’t know: the first official use of the term “pornography” was in the 1857 Oxford English Dictionary.
14. 2.5 billion emails contain porn, which makes up 8% of all messages sent.
15. Conservative states have the most porn subscriptions of any in the US.
16. Until 2014, the domain www.whitehouse.com was a porn site.

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