The verdict is out. Ban or no ban, India is watching more porn than ever. In 2015, India knocked out Canada to grab the third position – after the US and Britain – in visiting one of the world’s largest adult websites Pornhub.
In its annual review of how people around the world watch porn, Pornhub found that while the US added 11 seconds to their average time spent on watching porn, India – at 9 minutes 30 seconds – recorded a higher average time with a one-minute increase in the duration of each visit.
Pornhub received 21.2 billion visits in 2015 – 40,000 visits every minute or 2.4 million per hour. The review noted that 53 percent of the traffic shares were from smartphones alone.
Highlights of the Report
Pornhub streamed an average of 75 GB of data per second and 4,392,486,580 hours (500,000 years) of porn through 2015.- The most famous keyword search among Indians was “Indian, including bhabhi, aunty and teen”.
- Bollywood actor Sunny Leone was the top-searched porn star in India.
- “Love” remains the most commonly featured word in Pornhub comments.
- “Lesbian” was the most searched term on the site.
- Pornhub viewers in countries like Cuba, Mongolia and Kazakhstan tend to keep their sessions short and sweet, with average visit lengths ranging from just over 5 minutes to around 6.5 minutes.
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