If opponents and fans of pornography can agree on one thing, it would probably be this: lots of people like to watch porn. Russia, where reactionary conservatives appear on every TV channel, is no exception.
Pornhub, the biggest pornography site on the internet, provides helpful statistics to let you figure out just how big the porn phenomenon is. According to Pornhub’s insights team, people spent 4.3 billion hours on the site last year alone. And because Pornhub is kind enough to keep track of country statistics too, we found in 2014 (the same year Crimea was annexed and sentiment against “the decadent west” reached a fever pitch) that Russians were searching Pornhub for “anal” more than anyone in the world.
2015 was no less interesting for Russia and porn – that was the year we found that “My Little Pony” was the porn search term that had the biggest increase in popularity in Russia, with anal taking a backseat but still retaining a position in the top ten searches and remaining the most popular category.
