America: land of the free, home of the most internet porn in the universe. According to a study, the US of A hosts 60 per cent — or 428 million pages — of the world’s porn.
The data was collected by Paul Walsh of a company called Metacard. He found that the US is second only to the Netherlands, which has 187 million pages for a population of 17 million porn-hungry people. The UK came in third with 52 million naughty pages, or about one for every person. Germany was fourth with eight million pages.
Apparently, Holland took the second space, because, hello! It’s Holland, it’s sexually liberal, and many of the web hosting companies are located there and not regulated much at all, meaning they can make loads of cash. The Netherlands is also home to AMSIX, or the Amsterdam Internet Exchange, which is the world’s biggest data transport, handling 10 per cent of the planet’s online traffic.
Sure, the US is falling behind in education, obesity, debt, intelligence and natural resources, but it’s winning in porn! [IBTimes via BetaBeat]