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People Looked at a Lot of Porn During the Northeast's Short-Lived Snowmageddon

To the surprise of no one, Pornhub's traffic spiked as snowbound Northeasterners spent Tuesday getting frisky with themselves.

Winter Storm Juno, the alleged "historic" blizzard of apocalyptic proportions, mostly missed New York City, which got less than a foot of snow. Still, the region's public transportation system shut down in preparation for what was supposed to be a dangerous snowfall, and conditions were notably more brutal in New England.

That meant a lot of Americans were spending their Tuesdays trapped inside their houses and apartments, which in turn meant they had more time to devote to everyone's favorite hobby: masturbation. According to data released on Pornhub Insights, the smut giant's equivalent to FiveThirtyEight, Pornhub's traffic increased by a whopping 20 percent in New York yesterday. But who can blame them?

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