Feeling porny?

By Oliver Todd

New data has revealed the extent of porn watching habits on campus. The figures, provided to Vision by the University under the Freedom of Information Act, show a staggering number of visits to some of the world’s most popular porn sites.

In the Autumn term, people on campus visited the top 20 free porn sites 1,476 a day, on average, with an estimated total of 103,320 views in the term. The most popular site was ‘RedTube’ which racked up an average of 606 views each day whilst ‘XHamster’ and ‘WankTube’ were also popular. Bullporn.com only managed 39 views.

All views were either made on campus desktop computers or mobile devices connected to the eduroam WiFi network.

With York students only having 4.06 sexual partners whilst at University according to the StudentBeans’ 2012 Sex Survey, this data perhaps indicates we are spending our time in other ways.

The peak time for views was in week 6, an essay deadline week for many students, where 1,844 visits were made to these sites each day – although the figures also show that more people were checking out YorkVision.co.uk.

Meanwhile, Freshers Week saw just 435 views each day with students more focused upon going out and hangovers.

The figures include any views made on the University networks – including in lecture theatres and the library – a habit that has already been speculated about on the ‘Spotted: University of York Library’ Facebook page which recently drew criticism for voicing sexist comments. Any viewings made by staff of the University are also included.

One first-year Derwent student, who chose not to be named, told Vision: “I’m surprised it’s so low to be honest – I must be racking up a good three or four views a day on my own!”

One second-year student from Langwith meanwhile said: “I can’t believe the figures are so high! It just goes to show that people are trying to spice up the odd boring History lecture. Personally, I think it’s disgusting – I mean ‘XHamster’ and ‘Bullporn’? I don’t even want to think about what these sites entail….”

York’s viewing figures engulf those of Nottingham University, where paper The Tab Nottingham, claimed “Randy uni staff surfed porn 200 times a day while you were on holiday” in October. Data for other universities has not been published.

York’s true figures could potentially be even higher, as Vision’s investigation only covered the most popular free porn websites on the worldwide web.

With dissertation deadlines and a more hectic schedule coming up, it remains to be seen how many views York will manage this Spring term…

13 thoughts on “Feeling porny?”

  2. Only 4.06? You say that as if it were a bad thing. Do you need to sleep around as much as possible to be considered a normal student? If that is the view then it is a sad one. What happened to finding someone you cared about and saving sex as something special between the two of you?

  3. I did say to myself I would never comment again BUT, I think this article is very good, very funny and i liked it a lot. The only problem is that who watches redtube? Thats old school, dont give me that 4 minute clips. Its all about full length porn. Just Sayin.

  4. The uni does not just go around giving out FOIA information, you have to request it. So what we can draw from this is that Vision have specifically asked the university for figures.

    Am I the only one who finds that, and the odd sounds coming from Grimston House, just a little voyeuristic?

  5. I’m gonna hold my hands up. Actually just one hand up. The other one is ummm… yeah just wanted to say that the vast majority of these views were and will continue to be me. I’m not going to say sorry. Swag.

  6. 4.06 partners? that is depressingly low…but have no fear, i personally brought that average up last year from the previous 3.58 or however awfully low it was. We all do what we can…

  7. Personally I don’t think that the average number of sexual partners is a good indicator of sexual activity. You could have one partner with whom you have sex 10 times a day or have one-night-stands once a month. In the first situation the number of sexual partners is 1, in the second it’s 12, but I’m fairly sure the second situation would cause more drive and motivation (and time) to watch porn.

  8. “1,476 a day, on average, with an estimated total of 103,320 views in the term”

    Pah! Pathetic. I’d visited xHamster, Redtube, Pornhub, Pornotube, Youporn… aherm… etc. … at least 1,500 times before breakfast in my day.

    How things have changed.

  11. Nice to know that York Vision gives room to such well-written, high quality articles about important subjects?

Comments are closed.