Some people have been getting a bit too comfortable working from home, according to a new report.
The report, by Ofcom, reveals that a fifth of Britons admit to watching porn during office hours.
Of the 13.8 million people who watch porn online, more do so between 9:00am and 5:30pm than at any other time of the day.
And it isn’t just a quick session – people watching porn in the work day spend 55 minutes on adult sites on average.
Pornography watchers are overwhelmingly male, with men making up 73 per cent of the total, according to the report.
A fifth of all people who watch pornography in the UK admit to doing so during the hours of 9:00am to 5:30pm (stock image)
Work hours were actually the most popular time for people to visit porn sites, closely followed by the middle of night into early morning
Work hours were only followed in their popularity by the very early hours of the morning, between midnight and 8:59am, when 18 per cent of users visited adult sites.
The least popular time for Britons to access adult content was between 5:30pm to 7:59pm, with only 13 per cent visiting sites during this time.
However, Ofcom says it can’t be certain whether this behaviour is due to an increase in working from home as it does not have data from previous years to compare against.
Pornhub remained the most popular site for pornography in 2023.
In May, 18 per cent of adults accessed the site – almost as many as the two next most popular sites combined.
According to Pornhub, the UK had the second highest amount of traffic to the site of any country apart from the United States.
The report said: ‘Twenty-nine per cent (13.8 million) of UK online adults accessed a pornographic content service in May 2023, and reach has remained relatively stable year on year.’
Ofcom also points out that more adults were accessing the highest-reaching porn sites in 2023 than in 2022.
Five of the top 10 porn sites say their number of visitors grew by at least 10 per cent, with OnlyFans seeing its user base grow by almost 20 per cent year on year.
Ofcom says they can’t be sure if this pattern is due to a rise in working from home as there is no data from previous years to compare with (stock image)
The report added: ‘The top ten pornographic content services vary little by user age.’
However, they do note that ‘the adult gif site Redgifs … only appears in the top ten for adults under 25.’
While age was not a significant determining factor in Britain’s porn habits, there were big differences between the genders.
Overall, men were three times more likely than women to access pornography online.
However, erotic fiction sites were proportionately used at a much higher rate by women than men.
The sites Lush Stories and Literotica had audiences that were both over 40 per cent female.
However, the site that was most popular with women was a site called Bellesa which is targeted specifically at a female audience.
While women only make up 27 per cent of porn watchers, this site’s audience was 65 per cent female.
The Ofcom report also found that hentai, which the authors describe as ‘a sub-genre of anime or manga comprising sexually explicit anime and manga content’, was predominantly accessed by young men on desktop or laptop computers.
The audience of hentai, which was the third most popular search term on Pornhub globally in 2022, was 89 per cent male and was most popular among 18-24 year-olds.
The report points out that the site ‘Hentai Heroes’ was the 40th most popular site for adult content in May 2023.
However, when considering just those people who accessed pornography using a computer rather than a phone, this site jumps to the ninth most popular adult site in the UK.
