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There are stats available from porn sites. E.g.:

Now we’re not saying that size matters, but 2018 was an impressively big year for Pornhub and its users. Visits to Pornhub totaled 33.5 billion over the course of 2018, an increase of 5 billion visits over 2017. That equates to a daily average of 92 million visitors and at the time of this writing, Pornhub’s daily visits now exceed 100 million.

2018 saw Pornhub’s average visit duration grow by 14 seconds to 10 minutes and 13 seconds.

https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2018-year-in-review

Relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/09/everybody...

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lies-Internet-About-Really/...



Unless I missed it, I didn’t see something as plain as “X million in the US watch porn at least 1x a week” or something like that, which is what I’m curious about.


They say "Once again, the United States continues to be the country with the highest daily traffic to Pornhub".

The give a graph of top 20 countries, which they say represent an aggregated 80% of their traffic.

The US is first, and take around 40-50% of that traffic.

Let's go with 40%. Of 80% that's ~ 32% of total.

They also say: "Pornhub’s daily visits now exceed 100 million".

This means 32% of 100M, so around 32M americans visit Pornhub alone each day.

And that's just one porn network. Along with Pornhub (which is however the most visited) there are also XVideos, XHamster, XNXX, Redtube in the list of Top 50 most popular websites.


Yeah, I’m curious about the distribution therein. It’s obviously not the same 32M every single day, though I’m sure there are people who indulge daily. Are 20% of them daily users? And 60% weekly? etc




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