Perhaps it’s the threat of Santa’s naughty list but a survey has revealed that the day of the year Americans are least likely to watch pornography is Christmas.
Website Pornhub – which allows free access to millions of X-rated videos – analyzed their U.S. traffic in 2012 last week to work out when they had the highest and lowest number of viewers.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the days when porn was least watched are all holidays – with the top three being Christmas Day, Thanksgiving and Easter Sunday.
Americans are least likely to indulge in their X-rated habits on December 25 – perhaps due to the distraction of too much family, too much food and too many presents.
Similarly Thanksgiving in November – the day to be thankful doesn’t appear to stretch to indulging in porn.
It looks like some porn fans’ religious obligations also get the better of them in early April as visits to Pornhub take a dip on Easter Sunday.
Christmas Eve hits the list at number four, when it’s likely that last-minute gift-buying and turkey-basting takes precedence.
At number five is Independence Day, when Americans are presumably too busy celebrating their Fourth of July freedom to bother with online antics.
New Year’s Day makes an appearance next – suggesting a link between those who like to party to excess (and pay the consequences with a January 1 hangover) and have a predilection for online porn.
Next on the list this year was October 20 – the day when Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast and Americans had more far important things on their minds (while several million Internet connections were also down).
Both days of Memorial Day weekend saw a dip in those watching porn followed by Father’s Day.
Unsurprisingly, Valentine’s Day sees porn viewing at an annual low – with the promise of real-life sex still preferable to that in cyberspace – however it does come bottom of the list.
