Only in America would people get randy heading into a solar eclipse event.
Pornhub revealed that terms like ‘eclipse sex’ and ‘eclipse orgasm’ became the top searches on Monday, rising by a shocking 6,800 percent.
Curious users looked up friskier terms like ‘sex during eclipse’ and ‘eclipse my c***.’
‘Eclipse karma’ also topped the list, which appeared to be a porn star performing sexual acts on different partners.
However, people appeared to take a break from their Pornhub eclipse fetishes for roughly an hour to watch the celestial event, but resumed normal levels once the moon bypassed the sun.
Pornhub reported that searches for solar eclipse-related videos jumped by 6,800 percent on Monday
DailyMail.com investigated the top terms, finding nothing related to the event that saw the moon block out the sun – it just seems people were in the mood during the eclipse.
If people were hoping to find a solar eclipse sub-genre on Pornhub, they were left disappointed.
There was one video of the eclipse uploaded to Pornhub – but nothing explicit in the footage.
Other popular terms were ‘sexy eclipse,’ ‘witch orgasm and even ‘eclipse glasses.’
The top eclipse search terms on Pornhub included ‘sex during eclipse’ and ‘eclipse orgasm,’ but viewership dropped by 68 percent as the moon crossed in front of the sun during totality
Pornhub’s viewership dropped as the moon reached totality in each state (pictured)
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In states where the eclipse reached totality people took a break from their need for self-intimacy, according to Pornhub which said site traffic dropped by 68 percent in states like Maine and Ohio.
In contrast, people on the West Coast didn’t see the need to pause their Pornhub viewing, with traffic only dropping by eight percent in California and nine percent in Oregon.
The concept of turning to porn during national and international current events is nothing new – at the height of the ChatGPT system’s release, Pornhub saw a surge in searches for AI robots.
In recent months, porn has expanded to allow viewers to build customizable AI models that reference existing porn images and videos to bring a tailored fantasy straight to your phone.
Other more depressing events like Russia’s war on Ukraine spurred an uptick in Google searches for porn videos using terms like ‘Ukrainian porn,’ and ‘war porn.’
‘The more porn that users watch, the [more] ‘niche’ they want it to be,’ Tom Farr, the head of legal advocacy at the Center to End All Sexual Exploitation (CEASE) told Reduxx.
‘[This] often includes increasingly violent material, which then encourages people to make this material — consensually or otherwise — in order to profit.’
