Watching porn is especially popular between 3 and 5 PM

You can deny it all you want and laugh with red cheeks when someone brings it up, but yes, watching porn is just massively done in the Netherlands. Also by women. Sorry.

This is how we rank in the top 10 of countries that visit the site of the world’s most famous naughty site, Pornhub, the most often. No less than 28 percent of Dutch visitors are women, you naughty girls. But that’s actually not even that special, when you look at the research that has been done on this website. Because what turns out? This porn site is visited the most worldwide between 3:00 PM and 5:00 PM. And not in the evening before going to sleep, between 10:00 PM and 1:00 AM. There is also a small peak to be found, but there are even more enthusiasts of some ruckus in the afternoon. We are afternoon people. All of us. Yes, you heard it right – these are also the times when most people are still at work.

How can that be? Don’t we, uh, have something better to do with numbers, graphs, and meetings? No, not really. On average, a website where porn it can be found is visited for 9 minutes and 36 seconds and more than half use their phone for that (59%). It may be that people quickly look it up when they go to the bathroom (yes, that happens, yuck), but it could also have to do with working from home – perhaps this lunchtime is just a moment when many get bored and feel the itch. They want to shift their thoughts. Or the site is generally visited more by people who are at home during the day, are free, or are unemployed. And then the time of day doesn’t matter much if you are free all day. The same goes for weekends. Many visitors might just be waking up around three o'clock on a groggy Sunday and then a bit of personal attention is quite welcome.

Well, these are just theories. How it really comes that we have the most desire for some kinky images around lunchtime is still a mystery to us. But I never take my phone to the toilet at work anymore. That saves one misunderstanding.

FACTS

• In the Netherlands, the search results ‘lesbian’, ’teen’ and ‘milf’ are the most popular.
• There have been almost 600,000 searches for porn videos featuring Pokémons. No joke.
• A third of the visitors to the largest porn site are between 18 and 34 years old. The older we get, the less often we watch.