Chinese spend an average of 14 minutes and 34 seconds browsing Pornhub.
It’s not the kind of the title China dreamed of having (perhaps ever), but all the clicks and late night streaming on Canada-based Pornhub, one of the world’s biggest free porn websites, has resulted in the country setting a pretty impressive record. Chinese users view Pornhub videos longer than people in any other Asian country, not to mention Europe and the US, to place second globally.
Those in the Western Sahara up in North Africa have the best stamina of all, browsing the site for 16 minutes and 16 seconds on average. China finished a worthy second at 14 minutes and 34 seconds followed by the Philippines at 14 minutes 22 seconds to round out the top three, according to the latest figures released the Canadian porn site.
Most pornographic websites are blocked in China, but popular porn sites including Youporn and Pornbub were surprisingly unblocked in May in 2010, reported AP, despite the country’s repeated calls to “Sweep Yellow and Smash Illegals”, referring to the crackdown on pornographic and illegal content.
Earlier this year, a Shenzhen-based website called Qvod.com was fined RMB 260 million ($42 million) for providing pornographic materials, Global Times wrote in the midst of the “Cleaning the Web 2014” campaign.
If you spend less than 16 minutes on porn websites on average, you aren’t alone. In most countries, the average time was between seven and 10 minutes. That includes the US (10:17), Russia (7:46), Poland (7:46), France (9:22), Japan (7:25) and Australia (9:59).
Even in North Korea, a reclusive authoritarian state with tight Internet control, citizens spend roughly 13 minutes and 39 seconds on the porn site, the third longest in Asia.
We don’t quite understand how China’s Internet censorship works, or North Korea’s. But it looks like where sensitive political subjects are tightly restricted, the two countries compensate their users with steamy, erotic, X-rated pornographic videos.
The logic? Internet Watcher Michael Anti explained to AP in an interview, “Maybe they are thinking that if Internet users have some porn to look at, they won’t pay so much attention to political matters.”