Pornhub reveals Brits STOPPED watching porn on Election Day… but June 8 was a good day for a pornstar who (nearly) shares the PM’s name
PORNHUB viewing figures reveal that all the drama around the general election was a real turn off for Brits... literally.
The adult entertainment website revealed that viewing figures plunged dramatically on the day of the election, with UK traffic down by a whopping 14 per cent throughout the morning of June 8.
Pornhub said that British viewing traffic then picked up throughout the evening, before plunging again in time for the exit poll which predicted a hung parliament.
This shock announcement was clearly a national turn off, as Brits realised some things are more important than porn and decided to pay attention to the news instead.
But since everyone was awake anyway, viewing figures picked right back up later on in the night, as Britain's brief period of electile dysfunction passed and we came to terms with the shock result.
The general election may have been terrible for under-fire PM Theresa May, but the Pornhub data reveals it was good news for a pornstar who (almost) shares the name of Britain's leading lady.
Teresa May, a pornstar, saw interest in her videos spike by 128 per cent on June 8, and searches for the adult entertainer rocketed by 235 per cent on the following day.
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was also broken down to reveal differences in election-day porn viewing for English, Scottish and Northern Irish viewers.
And viewing figures suggest that the SNP's decline was a big shock for Scots, with traffic plunging by as much as 20 per cent in the early hours of the new political order.
In fact, viewing figures were down north of the border throughout almost the entire day, with Scots clearly turned off as the Tories hoovered up SNP votes.
You might have thought that politics and porn have nothing to do with each another, but this isn't the first time that the government has interfered with the UK porn industry.
Last month, we told how the government had passed a bill which bans all sorts of racy acts in British porn videos, including female ejaculation and spanking.
And we also revealed how the porn police could start slapping Brits with a £15 porn viewing charge as a result of tough new laws.