According to Pornhub, traffic at the internet’s leading adult site dropped by as much as 16% as Clinton and Trump squared off for their first face-to-face free-for-all debate.
The website’s traffic fell by 16% as of 9pm of September 26 or about the time when the televised presidential debate kicked off on national and global television held at Hofstra University.
But as the debate was drawing to a close, traffic to Pornhub has resumed to normal, indicating that a good number of Americans abandoned watching porn just to see what the next president of their country has to say on various national issues.
The adult site also saw traffic from New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia to drop the most, with a significant 21% drop for each location.
On the other, hand Pornhub traffic from Mississippi, Alaska, and Hawaii, changed the least with just a 4% decline.
But the US presidential debate between Clinton and Trump was the most-watched in the history of the country, drawing an estimated 84 million viewers in the US alone.
Pornhub analysts cannot believe what happened but it did say that some American voters were so invested in the election that they apparently skipped out on a personal activity to get engage in the political process.