When it comes to watching porn online, women are slowly bridging the gap in India with as much as 30 per cent of women in India now regularly visiting porn websites, says a new study.

Last year, 26 per cent Indian women were online searching for porn. While lesbian porn was found to be the runaway hit among women, women across the globe are also watching more hardcore acts than men, revealed the study done by popular general interest website Pornhub in collaboration with New York-based news website, The Daily Beast.

The data came from nearly 40 million Pornhub users.

Compared to the worldwide average of 24 percent female porn viewers - an increase of one percent over the previous year, the Philippines and Brazil took the lead with 35 percent female viewers.

India and Argentina came in a close second with 30 percent female porn viewers. Using high-tech analytics software, the study revealed that women are also more selective than men when it comes to online porn viewing.



"Women are spending more time watching porn - a worldwide average of 10 minutes and 10 seconds compared to men at just nine minutes and 22 seconds," the results showed.

Japan presented the largest proportional gap between male and female porn viewers (83 per cent male and 17 per cent female). Women in the US ranked pretty low (23 per cent women and 77 per cent male). Nearly 24 per cent of women in France visit online porn websites regularly.

Earlier, global research firm Pew Research Centre in 2013 surveyed the online viewing habits of 1,003 Americans and found that 25 per cent of men admitted to watching porn in comparison to eight per cent of women.