Indian Telecom companies are raking in moolah over the new Indian obsession of watching porn. Though they are putting a grim face over their lower call rates and high debt but their data services are booming with millions of Indians finding enough time for watching porn on their cell phones.
The swelling smartphone market in India has a lot to do with this development. In 2014, more than 80 million handsets were believed to be in demand, way higher than previous year's 44 million units and with plunging smartphone prices, the porn market is here to stay and grow.
Pornhub is 75th most popular website and one of the busiest pornography portals on internet, says Alexa.com
In fact, Indians are in sync with the global trends of watching porn online.
India jumped three places to become the 4th highest source of Traffic on Pornhub.com and mobile phones have ebbed desktops to become the most used device for accessing porn, says a recent survey published by pornhub.com.
That is consistent with the global trends where most people around the world are using their cell phones to watch porn.
Globally, Monday is the most popular day for watching porn while Friday is the least. Most of the Indians, on the other hand, prefer to watch porn on Saturdays. Traffic on the porn site is lowest on middle on the week on Wednesday.
Not only men but Indian Women are also prolific visitors of porn sites.
In 2014, fairer sex constituted 25% of the total visitors to the porn sites. This is, surprisingly, higher than the liberal European countries but South Americans are clearly leading the fray.
Indian Pornography is also getting special attention by porn viewers as the term “Indian” was the 18th most popular term searched on Pornhub in the year 2014.
Porn star turned Bollywood actress Sunny Leone continues to be the most searched porn star in India.