While abstinence from pornographic material during Ramadan is usual, Moroccans have continued to visit pornographic sites during the holy month.
Rabat – Spanish daily news outlet El Espanol reported that pornographic website, Xhamster, has released visitor statistics from the last two months. The data shows traffic from Muslim countries, which show Moroccans and Iranians as the most common visitors to the pornographic site.
During the first days of Ramadan, porn consumption fell notably in most countries. But, in countries like Morocco and Iran, consumption gradually returned to average traffic levels through the end of the month, where visits to the pornographic website decreased by only 11.8% and 14.3%, respectively.
The list of statistics includes 21 Muslim-majority countries, with Oman listed third in terms of porn visits,showing a decrease of 27.08%, followed by UAE (27.8%), Lebanon (34.5%), Malaysia (35.5%), Qatar (38.7%), Iraq (39.1), Turkey (40.7%), and Indonesia (44.9%).
The website has experienced a significant decrease in traffic from Syria with 47.2% appearing close to the bottom of the list at 11th from the end, ahead of Kuwait (48.1%), Saudi Arabia (53.2%), Jordan (57.7%), Palestine (61.2%), Tunisia (61.9%), and Afghanistan (66.6%).
The lower rate of porn consumption in Gulf countries could be attributed to laws which prohibit pornographic websites. In order to access them, people use a VPN to change their IP address to another country where porn websites are not subjected to restrictions.
Countries, where porn traffic fell to more than 70%, were Libya with 74.1%, Egypt with 74.2%, and finally Yemen at74.6%.
Surprisingly, since they do not have such a conservative culture as Saudi Arabia or Iran, our Algerian neighbors are the first to abstain from watching porn during the holy month of Ramadan with a major drop of 76.1%.
According to the website’s CEO Alex Hawkins, the traffic experienced the strongest drop in the first days of Ramadan, “but everything has changed over the last few days, and porn has come back stronger than ever.”
“After the first week of Ramadan, the trends have changed again. Days after the start, in Tunisia 50% of the traffic lost during those days has been recovered. In the United Arab Emirates, the figure was up to 70%. And in Iran it has gone back to normal,” declared Hawkins to El Espanol.
Based on the statistics, the website made mocking comments about Iranians and Moroccans, saying that their “pillars of Islam are looking a bit limp.”
