The pandemic has forced people to watch a lot more porn

Scientists analyzed statistics from the Google Trends service. It turned out that during the acute phase of the pandemic in all

In the tested states where self-isolation was introduced, there was a significant increase in the audience of porn sites. Countries that did not have such measures did not see growth.

Researchers studied search queries,related to the five most popular porn sites in (Porn, XNXX, PornHub, XVideos, xHamster). Requests from residents of China, Italy, Spain, France, Sweden and the United States were taken into account for the period from January 9 to May 25, 2020.

The researchers were also interested in how muchpeople were interested in porn on the topic of the pandemic. They analyzed the following queries: "coronavirus + sex", "coronavirus + porn", "covid + sex". It turned out that people really started looking for this more often after the start of the pandemic. Mostly we watched videos where the heroes have sex wearing masks, surgical gloves and protective suits.

Scientists concluded that restrictive measures could lead to increased social isolation, feelings of loneliness and stress, and this increased the popularity of porn.