South Africans love to get their hands around porn on the weekend.
A recent study showed an increase in porn consumption on Friday and Saturday.
South Africa has always been high on the list of countries that watch porn, coming in as 24th in the world in 2019 – the last year for which statistics were made available by Pornhub.
However, Wits University lecturer Dr Yolo Koba decided to delve deeper into South Africans’ love for porn.
Koba’s online survey was answered by around 700 people, and he spent 19 hours interviewing 25 people regarding their porn habits, Business Insider reported.
A 22-year-old security guard from KwaZulu-Natal said he used porn to get the women who visited him over the weekend “warmed up”.
“Porn actually takes someone to another dimension. I just play it, then I ignore her. I do my stuff, then definitely, sure, when I come back, her world will be changed because she will be like touching you. That’s why porn plays a very serious role in my life,” he explained.
Long-term couples also see porn as useful.
A 25-year-old woman told Koba that her decision to watch porn with her partner “depends on how adventurous [they] wanna get that day” and how much time they have.
“Sometimes we wanna make love but, dude, we have to be up at six o’clock in the morning,” she said.
“So it’s like 15 minutes in and out, everybody’s happy, go to bed. Then there’s the long session on Saturday night: Fine, we can go on for hours then we can explore and play and stuff.”
Some South Africans use porn to relieve stress, either from work or their partner!
Koba says porn makes South Africans happy.
“Pornography is both a pleasure and a function, perhaps a pleasure with a function,” he said.
“Porn is consumed to aid sleep, to alleviate stress, to feel happy, to ward off boredom, and to feel ‘alive’.”
Compiled by Dylan Bettencourt
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