Comments on: Weekends Are for Porn (Not News)

By: weekends are for porn | jamYe waXman. seX matters.

weekends are for porn | jamYe waXman. seX matters. — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:26:03 +0000

[...] A little light reading (in the form of charts and maps) for this laid back holiday weekend. In case you didn’t know what to do this Saturday or Sunday, it’s good to know that loads of “other” people are downloading porn! See, it says so right here. [...]

By: Mary Tracy9

Mary Tracy9 — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:29:20 +0000

Nice to see no one has questioned the very existence of porn itself.

Well, I do. Porn shouldn’t exist. Full stop.

By: lsmsrbls

lsmsrbls — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:24:10 +0000

Especially when you consider who would google “porn” itself.

By: Il porno nel week end « Loriscosta’s Weblog

Il porno nel week end « Loriscosta’s Weblog — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:24:59 +0000

[...] (via Rocketboom ma ce l’hanno tutti Gleuch, SocialImmages…) [...]

By: it's a love thing

it's a love thing — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:49:37 +0000

A christmas time post about porn on google trends and no mention of the yearly christmas porn spike?

see it for your self: http://www.google.ca/trends?q=porn

By: E

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:39:16 +0000

Ha! I love that musical!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:00:58 +0000

Well done. Similar results when you look at any specific type of porn or sex act (I won’t mention which ones I inserted) – well-defined weekend peaks.

Of course, in light of the recession, here’s another interesting correlation – http://www.google.com/trends?q=porn%2C+jobs&ctab=0&geo=us&geor=all&date=mtd&sort=0

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:56:40 +0000

“I wonder if it seems weirder to people to look at porn on a Tuesday night than a Friday night, even if Tuesday and Wednesday are your days off…”

From one guy’s perspective – a definite no. Any time you have the privacy and spare time to watch porn is a time to watch porn. More than anything, this graph shows us when the aggregate volume of spare solo time peaks.

What the graph doesn’t isolate is how extraordinarily popular “porn” is compared to all but two other search terms (Facebook, Youtube), at any time of day or week. That should neatly account for all the variations in schedules and home lives that you mention. But if you have any info showing that MORE people are now working or studying on Saturday than on any given weekday, then you might be on to something.

As for the weekend “kids around” factor, I’d expect it to be cancelled out by the fact that an enormous number of the people looking for porn ARE kids.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:59:42 +0000

But this is just for searches. Who searches for ‘news’? Wouldn’t you search for a channel or some other content provider?

By: splack

splack — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:12:33 +0000

Eh, sometimes.

http://www.switched.com/2009/09/30/national-science-foundation-hit-by-internet-porn-scandal/

By: Lu

Lu — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:34:19 +0000

Seriously, who just Googles “porn”?

By: Gwen

Gwen — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:42:21 +0000

Sure, but lots of people do have to work on weekends, and for those with kids, even if they’re off on weekends, they’re more likely to have kids around too, which you’d think might somewhat counteract the “weekend freedom” effect. Maybe?

I wonder if it seems weirder to people to look at porn on a Tuesday night than a Friday night, even if Tuesday and Wednesday are your days off and therefore count as your weekend?

By: J

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:36:01 +0000

I’d expect that people view less porn when they’re at work or school.

People take NSFW seriously, I’d assume.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:21:44 +0000

I’d expect that people view less porn when they’re at work or school.

Zooming out a bit, the search volume of porn has really taken off in the last 2 years: http://trends.google.com/trends?q=porn&date=all&geo=usa&ctab=0&sort=0&sa=N

Not to extrapolate too much, but the big bump in “porn” searches in spring ’08 – after which they never dipped below their prior peak – neatly coincides with the time the employment rate began an identical trend: http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?request_action=wh&graph_name=LN_cpsbref3

Maybe we have one more way to measure the economy on our…er…hands.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:09:21 +0000

Hahaha, that’s exactly what I was thinking.

But I guess it’s not quite as bad as when people google using entire sentences…

“Alright google, let’s see here…a man and a woman having sexual intercourse doggy style on a couch *enter* YES!”