Online porn viewing in Washington, dormant since most offices closed in March, has started to spike as more workers have returned to their cubicles in the federal city.
According to one popular website, Stripchat, weekly users have gone from about 3,000 in Washington during the coronavirus shutdown to about 55,000.
In data shared with Secrets, the “highest daily marks in traffic” beginning on July 8 were during office hours, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
“Now that people in some industries have started to return to the office — including government employees returning to Washington, D.C. from nearby suburban areas — it’s becoming apparent that old habits die hard,” said the website.
Max Bennett, the vice president of new media for Stripchat, said that visits to the site in Washington’s suburbs spiked as people worked from home during the virus crisis, and now it’s shifted to D.C.
“Apparently, this new midday stress relieving method can be a tough habit to shake once returning to the office, as our data also shows an extreme uptick in site visits from the Washington, D.C., area starting in early July — the same week government employees began returning to the nation’s capital,” he told us.
One detail he added: Washington visitors to the site “tend to keep up their patriotic spirit” by choosing U.S. models to chat with for their “midday pick-me-up.”
Federal government and many private company computers have anti-porn filters. Uncle Sam put a ban on government employees watching pornography in the workplace in 2011, but there have been numerous reports and media stories about online porn use by government workers in the past three years.
