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 during the pandemic. She soon realized that consumption of pornography was a common underlying factor. She then led a group of 11 authors from various universities worldwide to publish a paper on internet and pornography use during Covid-19 pandemic in the scientific journal Frontiers in Psychiatry.
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 site received from each country during lockdown.
The government should ensure that this issue is taken up on priority basis and should stop pornography sites in India as this leads to rapes of girls and women in the country which should be curbed immediately.
