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International “Weed Day” comes around ever April 20th, and is more commonly referred to as “4/20”. In many parts of the world, people get together and light up to show their support for marijuana legalization, or to simply light up and show support for having a good time.

At the request of High Times, we soon discovered that those good times make their way over to Pornhub as well, where searches for marijuana related terms get higher — waaaaay higher maaan. On 4/20, searches containing the term “420” went up 564% above average daily levels, “weed” searches went up 710% and “marijuana” went up 817%.

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The force remains strong with Pornhub users. So much so, that ‘Star Wars’ searches increased an incredible 633% this May the 4th, handily beating last year’s increase of 510%. Star Wars is consistently one of the most searched for porn parodies among our 75 million daily visitors, so this number represents an empire worthy increase.

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In this edition of Pornhub Insights we’re joined by our friends at GQ to take a closer look at visitors from the U.K. capital of London. While Birmingham ranked 2nd for Pornhub traffic from within the U.K., London ranks 2nd among all worldwide cities, just behind New York. That’s an impressive number of porn lovers, seeing as London’s population ranks 22nd worldwide.

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For two weekends in April, over 100,000 music lovers head to Indio California for one of the greatest annual music festivals: Coachella. Indio is part of the greater Palm Springs area, and the influx of visitors causes a large increase in Pornhub Traffic over the course of just a few days.

From Friday April 14 to 16, our statisticians found an overall 8% increase in Palm Springs metro area traffic (which includes Indio and the Coachella Valley). Sunday had the largest increase of 9% above average levels. On the second weekend, traffic increased by 9% with only a 4% change on Friday but 11% on Saturday and 12% on Sunday.

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Today we’ve joined with our friends at Cosmopolitan Italy to talk about a “secret” sexual move that has been spreading around lately… Yes, we are talking about the Rusty Trombone!

In fact, at the beginning of March, Cosmopolitan released the artcile 3 Women Share What It’s REALLY Like to Give a Rusty Trombone and after this interview, the internet went crazy for it.

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In honor of everyone’s favorite day to get lucky, Pornhub’s statisticians took a look at how Saint Patrick’s Day affects searches on Pornhub. After the results of our Christmas and Valentine’s holiday reviews, we were expecting a pot of statistical gold from Saint Pat, and we weren’t disappointed.

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