Adult entertainment website Pornhub has seen an uptick in traffic as people around the world have started self-isolating and working from home
Picture the scene: a sickly young man lies prone on his bed. The mask on his face is doing little to stop the coronavirus from running amok with his immune system. His prospects look grim.
While he groans, a nurse walks in. She doesn’t look like stereotypical nurses look and her nursing uniform seems a lot shorter than regulation length. Apparently she has the cure for his disease.This is a real scene from a real clip on the popular adult entertainment website Pornhub, which in some countries has seen a massive spike in coronavirus-related searches since Covid-19 decided to take Aladdin up on his offer of being shown the world.
— although it probably helped that the site offered all quarantined Italian users free access to Pornhub Premium, The same freebie was offered to users in locked-down France and Spain on March 17, with similar results. The average daily traffic from those countries surged bySo what are people spending all this extra time on Pornhub doing? Apparently scouring the site for coronavirus-themed naughtiness.
It turns out that searches featuring some version of “coronavirus” first started appearing on January 25. In the past 30 days, they're been more than nine million searches containing the words “corona” or “covid”.
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