When New York city was struggling to deal with the spike in Covid-19 cases a year ago, Sanya Virani, a forensic psychiatry fellow at Brown University, began studying how her friends in the city were coping with the stress and anxiety. She realized that consumption of pornography was a common factor. She then led a group of 11 authors from universities worldwide to publish a paper on pornography use during Covid-19 pandemic in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry. In the paper, data showed the rise in pornography use during lockdowns in different countries. Virani was "shocked" to find that India ranked the highest in terms of porn consumption during pandemic among all nations. This was based on the number of hits Pornhub, the world's most popular porn site, recieved from each country. There was a 90 per cent rise in traffic on March 24, the day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared a nationwide lockdown. The government should stop pornography sites in India as this leads to rape of girls and women in the country. I request the Central government to ban all porn sites.
