Fleabag may have left our TV screens forever, but our unholy lust for Andrew Scott’s ‘hot priest’ shows no sign of cooling, reports Huffington Post.
Searches for the term ‘religious’ on Pornhub’s database of X-rated content have spiked since the BBC show returned at the beginning of March.
Scott joined the show’s cast of misfits at the start of the second series, since when his troubled man of the cloth sent the nation into something of a frenzy, prompting fevered debate as to whether his behaviour was sexy, controlling (“kneel!”) or even exploitative.
“What we wanted was to create a chemistry,” the actor explained before the first episode. “No matter what type of chemistry it was, we wanted these characters to have an extraordinary kind of connection.”
It seems that viewers certainly had an extraordinary kind of connection with him.
The show premiered on Monday 4 March – that evening searches for ‘religious’ pornography spiked 162%, while priest and nun rose 103% and 145% respectively.
While Pornhub reports interest slightly cooling over the course of the series, it remains markedly higher than before Phoebe Waller-Bridge bought her ‘hot priest’ (and his silk robes) into viewers’ lives.
UK users drive the second highest amount of traffic per country (after the US) to the porn website, which has a daily average of 92 million visitors. So, it’s possible that a cultural moment such as Fleabag could impact search trends.
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