The ‘vibrant’ city of Leeds is perhaps best known for being the ‘Knightsbridge of the North’ or its namesake football club and festival.
But it now has a raunchier claim to fame, it’s officially the UK city that searches for the most porn.
New research has revealed Leeds googles Pornhub more than anywhere else in Britain, putting Londoners to shame.
Brits are regular visitors of Pornhub, with us ranking eighth on the sites top 20 countries for traffic. We rank behind the likes of the US, Mexico, France and Italy, to name a few.
But it’s Loiners who are searching for the most porn here in Britain, and when it comes to what they’re searching for, you may be just as surprised.
What porn are they watching in Leeds?
Leeds locals are looking for women who have aged like fine wine, with the most searched for term being ‘grannies’.
Interestingly, Golden Age content (featuring senior men and women) was the biggest sex trend of the year back in 2023, with mature porn becoming the second most popular category on PornHub.
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It was also the fifth most popular category for women, while searches for the term granny jumped 132% that year.
‘The real surprise this year is that grannies have overtaken lesbians,’ a BabeStation spokesperson said. ‘It shows just how adventurous viewers are getting.’
Where else in the UK watches a lot of porn?
In second place just behind Leeds, and slightly further up north, it’s Newcastle which is watching a lot of porn, according to the study by Beecham Peacock Solicitors.
When it comes to what they’re watching, they’re searching for a lot of Eastern European porn stars, but it seems locals are also keen for some more hands-on fun, too.
Gateshead, Newcastle landed eighth on the biggest swingers hotspots list with 245 sign-ups to swinger sites per 100,000 residents each week; Geordies are notoriously friendly, so it’s not too much of a stretch to imagine this would extend to the bedroom.
If you head down south, you’ll find Bristol, which watching the third most amount of porn in the UK, and they typically search for ‘couples’ porn.
In fourth place was Glasgow, and fifth place was Liverpool. Liverpudlians prefer ‘college’ porn with young men and women performing for the camera. But it’s a preference that has come under scrutiny, ever since Bonnie Blue began selling content by taking university students’ virginities in Freshers week.
Finally in sixth place, is the capital. While it may seem surprising that Londoners search for Pornhub less than the likes of Leeds and Newcastle, what they’re searching for is far more predictable.
Those in London get off on lesbian porn, with the most common search being for ‘girl on girl’ adult content. It’s not all that surprising given that lesbian porn is also very popular with women, and it was the fourth most searched for category on Pornhub in 2024.
But when it comes to doing the deed, Londoners aren’t always responsible, given the London borough of the City of Westminster has the highest rates of syphilis, gonorrhoea and genital warts per 100,000 people in the country.
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In seventh place was Manchester, which has a penchant for ‘threesome’ porn, while Sheffield followed in eighth with a predisposition for MILFs in porn. Searches here for mother figures are extremely popular, but it’s surprising more cities don’t also share this kink, given its the second most searched for term on PornHub.
Birmingham placed ninth, while well-to-do Edinburgh rounded out the top 10 cities which search for the most porn.
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