How often do Britons watch porn?
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Young people and men watch porn more frequently than women and older Britons, with young men particularly likely to be regular consumers.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, there are considerable age and gender differences in the frequency of watching porn, with men and young people far more likely to be regular watchers and to have watched porn at all.
Three-quarters of British men (76%) say they have ever watched porn, compared to around half of women (53%). Around a third of men (36%) say they watch pornography at least once a week, including 13% who watch porn every day or most days, while just 4% of women say they watch porn at least once a week.
In fact, only 15% of women watch porn with any degree of frequency. Four in ten (38%) say they have seen it before but do not watch it, while another 40% say they have never watched porn at all.
And while younger Britons in general are more likely than older Britons to say they watch porn (48% of under-30s compared to 17% of those in their 60s a...
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