RT Journal Article
T1 Pornhub searches during the Covid-19 pandemic
A1 Cerdán Martínez, Víctor Manuel
A1 Villa Gracia, Alberto Daniel
A1 Deza, Noelia
AB The 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.
PB Taylor & Francis
SN 2326-8743
YR 2021
FD 2021-06-18
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/130887
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/130887
LA eng
NO Cerdán 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
DS Docta Complutense
RD 18 mar 2026