{
  "id": 18337264,
  "title": "Pornhub traffic skyrocketed the morning of Election Day",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/pornhub-traffic-skyrocketed-the-morning-of-election-day",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-05T16:18:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mashable",
    "slug": "mashable",
    "url": "https://mashable.com/life/pornhub-traffic-skyrocketed-election-day-morning-2026"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Pornhub, one of the world's most frequently visited websites, experienced a surge in traffic during the morning of Election Day, November 3. According to Pornhub, U.S. users woke up with a strong desire to view explicit content, as traffic was 22 percent higher at 5 a.m. compared to an average day. This trend continued until around 4 p.m., before most polls closed.\n\nAfter this peak, traffic decreased by up to 10 percent below average for a couple of hours. In the early evening, it rose again to slightly above average. By 10 p.m., however, it returned to below-average levels, possibly due to people watching the election results being delivered by Steve Kornacki.\n\nWhile Pornhub has blocked its own website in many states due to age-verification laws, there is no data available on whether people in key battleground states like Georgia, Texas, Florida, and the Carolinas opted to watch porn on that Tuesday. In Washington, D.C., though, Pornhub traffic was notably higher, with a 43 percent increase in the morning and 25 percent in the afternoon. This suggests that political staffers may have needed a brief break from their duties.\n\nWisconsin also saw an above-average day on Pornhub, with a 20 percent increase in traffic during the morning and 16 percent in the afternoon. Michigan and Ohio, states with closely watched races, experienced modest increases of 8 percent and 5 percent, respectively. The extent of Pornhub's traffic during Election Day varied across different states, as detailed in Pornhub's blog post.",
  "summary": "Pornhub reveals higher-than-average traffic in some locations on U.S. Election Day.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}