It's bad news for Cork city, as a study found residents to be the least sex-positive people in the world.

Oh dear.

The study, which you can check out here, was undertaken by Lazeeva, an 'adult content' app. It rated 100 cities across the world for things like sexual activity, experimentation and satisfaction. Cork city came last in all three of these categories.

“We wanted to look into how sex is viewed differently around the world, which cities have made progress towards sexual openness, and which would benefit from further liberation in future," a representative from the app explained.


“To try and quantify exactly how sexual a city is, a multitude of factors and a huge amount of data is needed from millions of people. Because of the resistance to the topic, this process was especially difficult in certain locations.

“We began by researching ten factors over 200 cities from around the world, before creating a final list of 100 where the full data was available.

“These factors included the libido of citizens and their porn consumption, but also the adult entertainment and swingers culture on offer in the location itself.”

The study also gave some insight into the most-searched pornographic terms in each city. The favourite term for the only two Irish cities on the list, Cork and Dublin, were both 'lesbian'.

Cork got a horrifically low score of 2.4 out of 10 when it came to LGBT friendliness, while Dublin scored a good 8.7 out of 10.

Access to contraception for both Cork and Dublin were terribly low at 1.6 each.

Dublin ranked 62nd in the list of sex-positive cities, while London, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, LA, and Berlin all scored highly in their rating of sexual happiness and activity.


Cork, we're looking at you for letting the side down.