Pornhub searches for Tesla surge thanks to *that* video and some Elon Musk tweets
A video of a couple having sex in a moving Tesla Model X has sent users scrambling to Pornhub in search of kinky, self-driving car porn.
According to Pornhub, searches for "Tesla" on the site started climbing at the beginning of May when the video began circulating. But then the searches spiked on May 9 and May 10 following some tweets from Musk on the video.
Overall, Pornhub projects more than 3 million searches for "Tesla" between the video's upload date on April 30th and the end of the day Friday, May 10.
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The couple claims that the car was in Autopilot and driving down the road when the film was made.
That led to a pair of tweets from Musk, the first of which made light of all the uses one can get out of a Tesla.
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But it was Musk's follow-up tweet that had us cringing with his sex-related pun.
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Those are words we'll never be able to scrape out of our brain.
Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.
