Women and Tech

International Women’s Day is Wednesday, March 8th, so in this edition of Pornhub Insights we’re once again taking a look at how women consume porn differently than their male counterparts. In the past we’ve studied Women’s Favorite Searches, their love for lesbian (nsfw) and gay porn in our Women Searching for Women and Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys posts, and even how women differ in certain countries like Ireland and Colombia.

As we discovered in our recent Year in Review, women account for around 26% of visitors to Pornhub. That level of traffic was enough to cause a massive drop in Pornhub visits during the Women’s March in January 2017. Because some would argue that the medium is as important as the message, in this edition of Insights we will be taking a look at the various technologies that women use to watch porn, and how that compares to men.

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Mardi Gras Versus Carnival

Everyone loves a sexy party, especially ones that last for several days and with tens of thousands of people. Mardis Gras and Carnival both share a common root, as a last chance for people to over-indulge in food (and flesh) before the Catholic period of Lent begins.

Although celebrated in many places, Mardi Gras is most often associated with New Orleans, and Rio De Janiero with Carnival. Our friends at Vocativ asked our statisticians to see which of the two festivals gets Pornhub visitors more excited.

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What Irish Women Want

The Irish Independent contacted us to see how Ireland’s female visitors to Pornhub stack up compared to their male counterparts and women elsewhere in the world. Ireland ranks 27th worldwide for traffic coming to Pornhub, and has seen a 55% growth in the number of female visitors to the site since mid-2014. On average, Irish women spend 10 minutes and 46 seconds on Pornhub each time they visit, which is nearly a full minute longer than Irish men.

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Estonia Insights

It’s been a few years since we took an in depth look at the porn habit’s of Estonia, so Ohtuleht.ee got in touch with us for a 2017 update. Although the country of Estonia ranks 88th for worldwide traffic to Pornhub, that’s far ahead of their population rank of 154th. Estonians spend on average 9 minutes 26 seconds on Pornhub, which is 10 seconds longer than the worldwide average. 31% of visitors are women, which is significantly higher than the 26% worldwide.

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Valentine’s Day for Porn Lovers

Holidays like Christmas, Thanksgiving and even Halloween can often affect the habits of Pornhub visitors, so our friends at Mashable checked in to see how Valentine’s Day stacks up to the rest. Your own plans this Valentine’s Day might depend on whether you’re dating, married or single. But we soon discovered that regardless of relationship status, Valentine’s Day has a significant effect on traffic to Pornhub and the terms people search for.

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Sanremo Music Festival Italian Traffic

On Tuesday, February 7th, the first of the five-night run of the most famous Italian music events took place. Yes, we are talking about the Italian song Festival of Sanremo!

The festival is a song contest held annually since 1951 in the so-called “city of flowers” Sanremo in the Ligurian seaside. Over the years, this traditional show how launched several world-famous Italian singers such as Andrea Bocelli, Laura Pausin and Eros Ramazzotti.

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