All data is up to date based on the latest studies available in 2021. Fresh data and statistics are continually added to ensure that this resource remains a reputable source for all relevant stats related to the adult, sex and porn sectors.
Last updated – August 2021
This data has been compiled in 2021 utilising multiple sources from as close to the current time period as possible, meaning that I’ve tried to keep stats to 2020 and beyond where possible.
Whilst the title is related to porn industry statistics in 2021 (as this is the bulk of the data), I also found many stats related to the wider sex and adult industries as a whole, which have been included. This also includes sections on very serious topics such as sex trafficking and addiction.
What follows is a comprehensive breakdown of the need-to-know facts and stats relating to the good, the interesting, and sometimes the downright horrific in the world of sex.
Porn Websites Overview
Pornography was initially introduced to the internet in 1997
(Psychology Today, 2018)
Virtual reality porn is projected to be a billion dollar market in 2025
(Covenant Eyes, 2018)
There are eleven pornography sites that are among the top 300 sites in the world
(SimilarWeb, 2016)
25% of search engine requests are related to adult or porn searches
(The Recovery Village, 2020)
Pornhub ranks in the top ten visited sites globally
(Alexa, 2019)
30,876 blocked visits to pornographic websites within the Houses of Parliament network
(Statista, 2017)
There were over 42 billion visits to Pornhub in 2019
This equates to 115 million searches per day
The average age of Pornhub visitors is 36 years old
Visitors in Thailand spent the most time on the site per visit, at 11 minutes 21 seconds
The overall ‘favourite’ time for viewing was 11pm on Sunday nights
As of 2019, there are over 169 years worth of content to watch on Pornhub
Most Searched
Captain Marvel porn is the most searched-for from the Avenger series
Time spent on the site increased the most for users in the 65+ bracket, up to an average 125 seconds on the site
There was an average increase of 24.4% in traffic during global quarantine periods amidst the Coronavirus outbreak
United States
The United States was the country with the most traffic
(Pornhub, 2019)
Porn – Addiction & Mental Health
- More than 50% of people engaging in online pornographic interactions admitted to losing interest in sexual intercourse (Tech Addiction CA, 2011)
- 10% of participants involved in a substance abuse study further admitted to having an addiction to sex or pornography (NCBI, 2019)
- A study found neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness and obsessional checking behaviours — were correlated with high pornography use (Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 2013)
- 56% of divorce cases involved one person having an obsessive interest in pornography (Tech Addiction CA, 2011)
10 Pornhub Stats you cannot ignore (2019-2021)
- Traffic devices make up 84% of all visits to Pornhub
- Apple is the most preferred IOS for mobile visitors in the USA
- The most searched keyword in Pornhub during election week in Florida was ‘Trump’ (in relative comparison to all other states)
- Windows users visit the ‘hentai’ category 105% more than Apple users
- Pornhub traffic in Arizona spiked by a whopping 33% at 5am on election night (all that pent-up energy ey!)
- The most popular search term in the Pornhub wellness centre is ‘masturbation’
- During an outage of Facebook and Instagram in 2019, Pornhub saw an increase in traffic of 19%
- Pornhub also saw a 6.2% traffic increase in the US and 5.6% traffic increase in the UK during a 2020 Zoom outage on August 24th
- Searches for Cardi B increased 235% after the release of the WAP video
- Women are 163% more likely to search for ‘gay BDSM’ than men
Amateur Porn
There are over 98,000 amateur models on Pornhub alone (Pornhub, 2019)
The amateur category gained a 108% increase in activity in 2019 (Pornhub, 2019)
Top Search
‘Amateur’ was the top search in terms of what ‘defined’ the year (Pornhub, 2019)
An amateur-specific porn site found that over 50% of amateur porn videos over a.6 month period were uploaded by women (Huffington Post, 2014)
Porn-shoot permits fell by 95% from 2012-2015. This stat directly correlates with a continued rise in amateur and lower-production value porn creation (The New Yorker, 2016)
Sex Trafficking & Illegal Activity
- The sex trafficking industry pulls in at least $99 billion per year (Equality Now, 2014)
- 55% of sex trafficking victims met their trafficker through a website or app (Thorn, 2018)
- There are more than 4 million victims of sex trafficking globally (UN International Labour Organisation, 2016)
- An estimated 21,000 underage children are part of the sex trade in the USA (NCJRS, 2016)
- 1 in 7 runaways in the USA are likely a victim of sex trafficking (National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, 2018)
- Over 21% of sex trafficking victims are children (The White House, 2018)
Porn - Religion & Society
- 57% of pastors said they have struggled with pornography, either currently or in the past (Barna, 2016)
- 55% of men said that porn was their only form of sexual education (BBC, 2019)
- 20% of religious men and 50% of religious women admitted to being addicted to pornography (Huffington Post, 2016)
- 55% of adults above 25 believe porn is wrong (Covenant Eyes, 2018)
- 71% of 18-25 British people surveyed said porn has given them ideas to try out in the bedroom (DeltaPoll, 2019)
- 28% of Christian men said they were introduced to porn before the age of 12 (Proven Men Ministries, 2014)
- 64% of Christian men and 15% of Christian women say they watch porn at least once per month
Conclusion
As stated previously, this data will be continually updated throughout the year to ensure that all facts and stats are fresh for 2020. If you made it this far, you may also enjoy:
