Impact of COVID-19 on pornography use: Evidence from big data analyses.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to radical changes in social distancing awareness and affected social relationships. Owing to large-scale lockdown, home quarantine and social distancing requirements, it was anticipated that sexual activities would be severely impacted. However, retrospective self-report studies showed that pornography use and autoerotism increased during the pandemic.

Aim

This study used big-data databases available on the Internet to investigate factors that modulated pornography use during the pandemic.

Methods

Daily relative search volume (RSV) data from Google Trends for the period from 24 February 2020 to 13 July 2020 were extracted. Pornhub traffic data were extracted from the Pornhub Insights website, for the period fro

SUBMITTER: Lau WK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8691607 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature