While politics & porn often go hand in hand, the latest "fake news" allegations from Buzzfeed, which revolved around a supposed urine-soaked revenge at Moscow’s Ritz Carlton Hotel, have sparked a "golden showers" spike among porn sites.

As we have detailed previously, the bizarre story, which emerged in a dossier reportedly compiled by a “former British intelligence official” and was published by BuzzFeed as supposed proof of Trump’s “deep ties” to Russia, claims Trump hired several prostitutes to “perform a ‘golden showers’ show in front of him” on a bed in the hotel’s presidential suite. Trump did so, the unverified report explains, because he knew outgoing President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, “whom he hated,” had slept in said bed during one of their official trips to Russia.

The dossier’s contents were either widely discredited or flat-out disproved, with many publications raising questions as to why BuzzFeed would chose to publish the unfounded claims. Nevertheless, the damage had been done, and within 24 hours of the tale’s viral debut, online porn giant PornHub reported a 289 percent increase in “golden shower” searches, while #WaterSportsGate and similar hashtags started trending on Twitter.

By January 11th, Pornhub reports that searches containing “Golden Shower” increased by 289% compared to the usual daily average. Our statisticians also found that “watersports” searches increased by 215% along with other related terms like “pissing”. Searches for “Donald Trump” were up by 273% on January 11.

As Pornhub also notes, across the United States, golden showers seem to be more popular in Northern States — perhaps as a way to keep warm in the winter? Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts proportionately search more often, while popularity is much lower down south in Hawaii, Mississippi, Texas and California.