People briefly stopped masturbating to watch Eurovision Picture: Alamy – Credit: MylesGoode

What does it take to make people in Europe stop feverishly masturbating?

Eurovision, that’s what.

The world’s largest porn site, Pornhub, says that its servers were deserted as soon as Eurovision started up – with French and Germans in particular switching off the jazz as the sweet sounds of Europop came on.

Traffic dropped by up to a quarter as Germans, French and Belgians stopped their endless, turbo-charged fapping and tuned in, according to a new Pornhub Insights post.


Pornhub says, ‘As often happens with hotly-anticipated televised events like the Game of Thrones premiere, the Super Bowl, NBA Finals and NHL Playoffs, we saw major changes to Pornhub’s normal traffic levels before, during and after the Eurovision finale show.



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‘France, Belgium and Germany top the list, with traffic levels down more than -25% below normal.

‘Traffic across all of Europe dropped -11% during the 4 hours Eurovision finale, when compared to normal traffic on a Saturday night. The peak drop of -16% happened around 21:00, and returned to normal levels around 23:00.