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People at the RNC Are Watching a Ton of Porn, Apparently

According to popular porn site xHamster, porn viewership is up 184 percent in Cleveland ever since the RNC came to town.
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It turns out that a contagious diarrhea virus and some plagiarized speeches aren't enough to keep convention-goers from masturbating like crazy at the RNC, the Daily Dot reports.

According to porn site xHamster, porn viewership is up 184 percent in Cleveland—an all-time high for the city—since the RNC came to town. The site reached 873,294 views this week, reportedly surpassing the number of views in New York City, Miami, and Los Angeles.

The high volume of viewers could just be due to the fact that Cleveland has roughly 50,000 more people than it usually does, thanks to the RNC, and more people just means more masturbation. But many of those porn-watchers were also looking for Donald Trump–themed porn, too, and his name became a trending search, so the masturbators definitely had politics on the mind. (No one seems to want to watch that Ted Cruz porn, sadly.)

Ironically, xHamster is the same site that boycotted North Carolina's transgender bathroom bill by blocking the state's users, so it looks like party politics just go out the window when people are online trying to bust a nut.

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