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I mean, I anecdotally feel like a majority of people watch porn now-days, so not really a heartbreaking retort.

hawaiianbrah 7y ago
I’ve always wondered about that stat. What does “watch porn” mean? 1x a year? 1x a month? 1x a week? I think people assume the rate is higher than it really is.
- coldtea 7y ago
  There are stats available from porn sites. E.g.: Now we’re not saying that size matters, but 2018 was an impressively big year for Pornhub and its users. Visits to Pornhub totaled 33.5 billion over the course of 2018, an increase of 5 billion visits over 2017. That equates to a daily average of 92 million visitors and at the time of this writing, Pornhub’s daily visits now exceed 100 million. 2018 saw Pornhub’s average visit duration grow by 14 seconds to 10 minutes and 13 seconds. https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2018-year-in-review https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2018-year-in-review Relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/09/everybody-lies-how-google-reveals-darkest-secrets-seth-stephens-davidowitz https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/09/everybody... Book: https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lies-Internet-About-Really/dp/0062390856 https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lies-Internet-About-Really/...
  - hawaiianbrah 7y ago
    Unless I missed it, I didn’t see something as plain as “X million in the US watch porn at least 1x a week” or something like that, which is what I’m curious about.
    - coldtea 7y ago
      They say "Once again, the United States continues to be the country with the highest daily traffic to Pornhub". The give a graph of top 20 countries, which they say represent an aggregated 80% of their traffic. The US is first, and take around 40-50% of that traffic. Let's go with 40%. Of 80% that's ~ 32% of total. They also say: "Pornhub’s daily visits now exceed 100 million". This means 32% of 100M, so around 32M americans visit Pornhub alone each day. And that's just one porn network. Along with Pornhub (which is however the most visited) there are also XVideos, XHamster, XNXX, Redtube in the list of Top 50 most popular websites.
      - hawaiianbrah 7y ago
        Yeah, I’m curious about the distribution therein. It’s obviously not the same 32M every single day, though I’m sure there are people who indulge daily. Are 20% of them daily users? And 60% weekly? etc
- Mathnerd314 7y ago
  Old survey, but the average used to be 3x a week: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/6709646/All-men-watch-porn-scientists-find.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/6709646/All-men-watch-... Looking at other surveys I'd say single men probably are 70% at least 3x a week, while being married or female are both going to reduce that amount. Although there are also questions about what qualifies as porn, like romance novels. If you have a loose definition of porn then I'd guess everybody in their 20's-30's is going to have seen some porn in the past year, although perhaps involuntarily.
- karmajunkie 7y ago
  If you can recognize the face of someone you met randomly from an ocean of porn online, I think it’s safe to say that person watches more frequently than once-a-anything.
  - ascorbic 7y ago
    These weren't randomly recognised: their contact details were published on another site, and the sociopaths who visit those sites then contacted their families, employers etc.
    - karmajunkie 7y ago
      > “I’m always paranoid when I meet new people that they have seen my video or [when I] meet new people [they] are going to say, ‘I know you.’” The context of the quote was not as you describe.
bjourne 7y ago
True, but the accusation "You have done PORN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" isn't heartbreaking either.

I’ve always wondered about that stat. What does “watch porn” mean? 1x a year? 1x a month? 1x a week? I think people assume the rate is higher than it really is.

coldtea 7y ago
There are stats available from porn sites. E.g.: Now we’re not saying that size matters, but 2018 was an impressively big year for Pornhub and its users. Visits to Pornhub totaled 33.5 billion over the course of 2018, an increase of 5 billion visits over 2017. That equates to a daily average of 92 million visitors and at the time of this writing, Pornhub’s daily visits now exceed 100 million. 2018 saw Pornhub’s average visit duration grow by 14 seconds to 10 minutes and 13 seconds. https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2018-year-in-review https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2018-year-in-review Relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/09/everybody-lies-how-google-reveals-darkest-secrets-seth-stephens-davidowitz https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/09/everybody... Book: https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lies-Internet-About-Really/dp/0062390856 https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lies-Internet-About-Really/...
- hawaiianbrah 7y ago
  Unless I missed it, I didn’t see something as plain as “X million in the US watch porn at least 1x a week” or something like that, which is what I’m curious about.
  - coldtea 7y ago
    They say "Once again, the United States continues to be the country with the highest daily traffic to Pornhub". The give a graph of top 20 countries, which they say represent an aggregated 80% of their traffic. The US is first, and take around 40-50% of that traffic. Let's go with 40%. Of 80% that's ~ 32% of total. They also say: "Pornhub’s daily visits now exceed 100 million". This means 32% of 100M, so around 32M americans visit Pornhub alone each day. And that's just one porn network. Along with Pornhub (which is however the most visited) there are also XVideos, XHamster, XNXX, Redtube in the list of Top 50 most popular websites.
    - hawaiianbrah 7y ago
      Yeah, I’m curious about the distribution therein. It’s obviously not the same 32M every single day, though I’m sure there are people who indulge daily. Are 20% of them daily users? And 60% weekly? etc
Mathnerd314 7y ago
Old survey, but the average used to be 3x a week: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/6709646/All-men-watch-porn-scientists-find.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/6709646/All-men-watch-... Looking at other surveys I'd say single men probably are 70% at least 3x a week, while being married or female are both going to reduce that amount. Although there are also questions about what qualifies as porn, like romance novels. If you have a loose definition of porn then I'd guess everybody in their 20's-30's is going to have seen some porn in the past year, although perhaps involuntarily.
karmajunkie 7y ago
If you can recognize the face of someone you met randomly from an ocean of porn online, I think it’s safe to say that person watches more frequently than once-a-anything.
- ascorbic 7y ago
  These weren't randomly recognised: their contact details were published on another site, and the sociopaths who visit those sites then contacted their families, employers etc.
  - karmajunkie 7y ago
    > “I’m always paranoid when I meet new people that they have seen my video or [when I] meet new people [they] are going to say, ‘I know you.’” The context of the quote was not as you describe.

bjourne 7y ago

True, but the accusation "You have done PORN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" isn't heartbreaking either.