Pornhub searches during the Covid-19 pandemic

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dc.contributor.authorCerdán Martínez, Víctor Manuel
dc.contributor.authorVilla Gracia, Alberto Daniel
dc.contributor.authorDeza, Noelia
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-23T14:40:09Z
dc.date.available2026-01-23T14:40:09Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-18
dc.description.abstractThe SARS-CoV-2 virus was rst registered in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Its subsequent spread to Europe, America and the rest of the world has generated hundreds of thousands of infections and deaths. It was at this moment when the porn website Pornhub o ered free Premium services for 15 days with the slogan‘Let’s help atten the curve’, encouraging citizens to stay at home to reduce the infection and death counts. This article investigates the repercussions that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the searches of pornography. Pornhub and Google Trends data were used to compare global search tra c between March and May 2020 with the same period in 2019 through regression analysis. The results demonstrate a correlation (R2 = 1) in the increase in Pornhub searches by women and men during the pandemic compared to the same dates in 2019.
dc.description.departmentDepto. de Ciencias de la Comunicación Aplicada
dc.description.facultyFac. de Ciencias de la Información
dc.description.refereedTRUE
dc.description.statuspub
dc.identifier.citationCerdán Martínez, V., Villa-Gracia, D., & Deza, N. (2021). Pornhub searches during the Covid-19 pandemic. Porn Studies, 8(3), 258–269. https://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2021.1882880
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/23268743.2021.1882880
dc.identifier.essn2326-8751
dc.identifier.issn2326-8743
dc.identifier.officialurlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23268743.2021.1882880
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/130887
dc.issue.number3
dc.journal.titlePorn Studies
dc.language.isoeng
dc.page.final269
dc.page.initial258
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject.cdu316.77
dc.subject.cdu159.9
dc.subject.keywordCoronavirus
dc.subject.keywordCovid-19
dc.subject.keywordSARS-CoV-2
dc.subject.keywordPornhub
dc.subject.keywordvideos
dc.subject.keywordpornography
dc.subject.ucmCiencias Sociales
dc.subject.ucmRedes
dc.subject.ucmAudiencia y difusión de los medios
dc.subject.ucmInternet (Ciencias de la Información)
dc.subject.unesco62 Ciencias de las Artes y las Letras
dc.subject.unesco6306.07 Sociología de Los Medios de Comunicación de Masas
dc.titlePornhub searches during the Covid-19 pandemic
dc.typejournal article
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dc.volume.number8
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