It’s the weekend, and for many South Africans that means it’s time to get their hands on some pornography.
Porn consumption rockets on Fridays and Saturdays, according to new research into who uses porn, when and where they consume it (and with whom), and why they like it.
In annual reports by
Pornhub, South Africa has often featured among the countries that use porn the most, though in 2019 - the last year for which stats are available - it slipped out of the top 20 to 24th position.
But detailed information about how all that porn is consumed was not available until the release of the results of Wits University’s Yolo Koba's doctoral research last week.
Almost 700 people completed Koba’s online survey, and then he spent 19 hours in interviews with 25 people who agreed to tell him more about their porn habits.
Key findings show that porn use dips dramatically when people reach their 40s, it is nearly always consumed at home and alone, and the most popular reason for using it is as a masturbation aid.
But the interviews with three women and 22 men – most of them in long-term relationships – show that “porn consumption is a highly individualised form of sexual cruising”, Koba wrote in the latest edition of the journal
Communicatio.
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