Here are surprising facts about the porn industry!
6 - What Are We Looking At?!
You might think that it's pretty easy to guess what people (especially men) like about
p*rn?
Or more specifically, what attracts them to certain scenes or movies more so than others.
The bodies!
The t*ts!
All the naughty parts!
Right?
Not quite.
In a recent study, heterosexual male and female participants viewed a series of sexually explicit
images.
Each image consisted of a male-female couple engaged in some sort of sex act.
Before viewing the photos, each participant was fitted with a head mounted eye-tracking
device that was able to record the exact section of each image an individual was focused on
at any given moment.
So, not only could researchers measure what first captured people's attention, but they
could also identify the areas participants spent the most time looking at.
The thing with the highest likelihood of first capturing men's attention AND the thing
men spent the most time looking at was…….the female faces.
Of course, this wasn't the ONLY thing that men focused on—they also spent a good deal
of time looking at whatever else you can imagine.
But there was a surprising amount of well…..staring into the eyes.
Faces really seemed to stand out.
What about female participants?
Strangely enough, what they focused on depended upon whether they were taking birth control
pills or not.
For women who WEREN'T taking contraceptives, the first things that were most likely to
catch their eye and what they looked at for the longest period of time were genitals,
followed by the female body.
These women were hardly interested in faces at all.
The female participants who were on birth control pills during the experiment, were
most likely to notice, and spend the most time, viewing contextual features of the situation.
So they were basically looking at everything around the sex.
Things such as the actors' clothing and the background imagery were far more likely
to get their attention than bodies or faces.
These findings are quite strange and definitely not what we expected.
Why do you think there's such a big difference between the way women on birth control look
at p*rn versus those who aren't?
Are you surprised that men like looking at faces more than genitals and at faces more
than women do?
Let us know in the comments!
5 - Who exactly is watching, and what?
P*rnhub, the world's biggest p*rn site with the largest traffic source has given us some
interesting statistics regarding their viewers.
The answer to this question might just surprise you.
Or maybe not.
The U.S tops the list of per capita in page views, with Iceland coming in second and the
U.K in third place.
So, the U.S, even after adjusting for its size, is the largest consumer of online p*rn
in the world.
Guess what was the most searched word in the U.S?
"Stepmom" Yep, that's right.
U.S consumers really have a thing for their moms, or at least the moms they aren't technically
related to.
Sigmund…I think you might have been on to something.
The second most popular category is "lesbian", followed by "stepsister".
Yeah, after a brief excursion to girl on girl, it's back to the family for U.S viewers.
What about some interesting stats about other countries?
Well, Jamaica has the highest percentage of female visitors at 46%.
That means that in Jamaica, almost half of the people logging onto P*rnhub are female.
The Philippines are the country where visitors spend the longest time online per session
at roughly 13 minutes, while Cubans tend to be very short, at just under 5 minutes.
Here are some other interesting tidbits:
The majority of P*rnhub visitors are millennials– they make up an impressive 60% of viewership.
As we climb up through the age brackets, the percentage of visitors the website, drops.
For instance, seniors aged 65+, make up the smallest percentage, at only 4%.
This, however also changes quite a lot depending the country.
In India for example, the proportion of viewers between 18 and 24 is much higher than in Spain,
where majority of users are aged between 25 and 44.
4 - The "Vicpornian" Era!
Depictions of people engaging in sexual acts have been around for pretty much for as long
as people have been engaging in sexual acts.
There are the Venus figurines – those prehistoric little figures with the overly sexualized
body parts – as well as racy ancient rock art found in all corners of the world.
When large-scale excavations of Pompeii were undertaken in the 1860s, much of the erotic
art of the Romans came to light, shocking the Victorians who saw themselves as the intellectual
heirs of the Roman Empire.
They didn't know what to do with the depictions of sexuality and decided to hide them away
from everyone except for the upper-classes and scholars.
The moveable objects were locked away in a secret museum in Naples, while the things
that couldn't be removed were covered and cordoned off as to not corrupt the sensibilities
of women, children, and the working classes.
Because you know, p*rn is bad for productivity!
The Victorians took their belief that p*rn is okay for some but less okay for others
a step further when they came up with the Hicklin test.
The Hicklin test, was a Victorian Era obscenity test, where the court basically determines
whether or not something was obscene.
But here's the twist, the test only applied to "those whose minds are open to such immoral
influences".
By adding that last clause, the Victorian aristocracy could keep all the good p*rn for
themselves and out of the "corruptible" hands of the working classes.
Those p*rn gobblers!!
3 - Movie Time!
It's surprisingly interesting to find out when people do, and don't watch p*rn.
P*rnhub has analyzed their U.S. traffic over the period of a year and released some surprising
stats on when Americans prefer to watch their favorite …um…films.
The general finding is that Americans avoid p*rn on big, family related holidays such
as Christmas and Thanksgiving, but then there are big spikes in the traffic on the days
directly after those holidays.
The single most popular naughty film day?
That would be December 27th.
Second on the list is the Monday after Thanksgiving - also referred to as Cyber Monday by online
bargain hunters.
In third place was May 29th - the Tuesday after Memorial Day weekend.
So, with the slowest days being Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter Sunday and the busiest
days being the days directly after those holidays, it appears that people avoid p*rn while they've
recently had contact with Grandma, but the minute they have some alone time again, they
go a bit overboard!
Another big day on the p*rn calendar is November 4, when daylight saving provides an extra
hour for "self-entertainment."
When we look at the statistics on an average daily basis, and who watches when, the results
are unsurprising.
Around 10 pm traffic starts to spike, and it peaks at around midnight.
There is another, but smaller, spike at around 4pm.
The quietest time for pantless cyber surfing is 5am.
Too early?
Too late?
Who knows.
2 - How safe is your P*rn site?!
Maybe it's all the ads, and the general sense of back-alley-of-the-internet seediness
that creates the impression that p*rn sites leave your computer especially vulnerable
to viruses, but that impression is wrong.
A new study from antivirus maker Avast claims that p*rn sites are far safer for your computer
than conventional wisdom might lead you to expect, and far safer than websites from big
businesses.
By a lot.
The statistics are clear – for every infected adult domain, there are 99 others with everyday
vanilla content that are also infected.
What FANTASTIC news, considering that up to 37 percent of the total content on the Internet
is p*rnography.
P*rn websites have long been pariahs on the Internet despite their contributions to the
online world.
P*rn entrepreneurs have consistently been among the first to embrace new technologies
that come along, including streaming video, online-subscription models, and Internet advertising.
Whether you love it or hate it, the p*rn industry is and has always been a pioneer in digital
technology.
So it shouldn't be a big surprise to find that, in general, their online security is
top notch.
After all, it wouldn't be good business for the billion-dollar industry if viewing
the product consistently crashed the computers of its customers, right?
To be fair, p*rn sites were once a constant threat to pick up viruses, just like your
mom warned you about!
Increased security and smarter browser controls have forced hackers to look at other sites
that might be slightly more vulnerable, sites where people don't expect viruses.
In the Avast study, the worst infections were found on more popular sites with higher traffic,
and the report states that there was a higher infection rate in websites with the word "London"
in the title than "sex".
One of the most infected sites, Avast discovered, was Vodafone's smartphone section.
So basically, stats have shown us it's safer better to watch p*rn online than it is to
go to the website of the world's second largest cell phone carrier!
#1 - Random facts about P*rn around the world!
The Australian Government banned A-cup boobs in adult content.
Sort of.
Here are the details:
The Australian Censorship Board stated that "publications which contain offensive depictions
or descriptions of persons who are or appear to be persons under the age of 18, whether
they're engaged in sexual activity or not, must be classified RC, or Refused Classification."
So, what they are saying, is that when women appear to be underage due to a certain lack
of ampleness in the bosom area, they must be legally treated as children.
At least as far as the distribution of images of these women is concerned.
While the Australian Censorship Board claims that there is no blanket ban on small breasts
as such, women over the age of 18 with small breasts who might look young are banned.
The problem is that there is a societal norm that women with small breasts are believed
to look young because they look underdeveloped, for lack of a better word, so the ban is still
well and truly there.
The "ban" is controversial for this very reason.
The Australian Government is censoring content that features adults with small breasts because
they might look underage, as opposed to them actually being under-age.
The crux of the law enforcement of child P*rnography is to protect children, and rightly so.
So why is the Australian Government censoring consenting adults, when it's pretty easy
to prove someone's age?
What about the guys?!
Mississippi has a reputation to be a notoriously racist state.
However, the two most searched terms for p*rn in Mississippi are "ebony" and "gay
black".
Maybe the overt hate and racism are really just desperate defense mechanisms to mask
their fetishized love for that which they don't understand?
Let's brings back to our favorite creepy Austrian uncle Sigmund and go hmmmmm!!!
Not too surprising I guess that all production and distribution of p*rnography in North Korea
is illegal.
Oh yeah, the internet is too.
So yeah, this one is a no brainer.
It's been rumored that an army officer has been executed for making and selling p*rno
films.
THAT is the last country I'd be producing p*rn in.
People in South Korea have to use their version of a Social Security number to access any
p*rn material online.
Well, I guess that's one way to curb use of p*rn time.
Or at least some really weird search terms.
Apparently the third most popular porn related search term in Nigeria is; "Things I jack
off to".
Wonder what the results are…
And finally, the second most popular search in Kazakhstan is "squirt machine".
It's gotta be Borat.
C'mon!!
Here's what's next!
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