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Current Pornography Statistics

Pornography Industry Statistics

• Size of the Industry $57.0 billion world-wide - $12.0 billion US

  Adult Videos $20.0 billion

  Escort Services $11.0 billion

  Magazines $ 7.5 billion

  Sex Clubs $ 5.0 billion

  Phone Sex $ 4.5 billion

  Cable & Pay Per View $ 2.5 billion

  Internet $ 2.5 billion

  CD-Rom $ 1.5 billion

  Novelties $ 1.0 billion

  Other $ 1.5 billion

• Porn revenue is larger than all combined revenues of all professional football, baseball and basketball franchises.

• US porn revenue exceeds the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, and NBC (6.2 billion)

• Child pornography generates $3 billion annually

Internet Porn Statistics

• Pornographic websites 4.2 million (12% of total websites)

• Pornographic pages 372 million

• Daily pornographic search engine requests 68 million (25% of total search engine requests)

• Daily pornographic emails 2.5 billion (8% of total emails)

• Average daily pornographic emails/user 4.5 per Internet user

• Monthly Pornographic downloads (Peer-to-peer) 1.5 billion (35% of all downloads)

• Daily Gnutella “child pornography” requests 116 thousand

• Websites offering illegal child pornography 100 thousand

• Sexual solicitations of youth made in chat rooms 89%

• Youths who received sexual solicitation 20%

• Worldwide visitors to pornographic web sites 72 million annually

Children's Exposure to Pornography

• Average age of first Internet exposure to pornography 11 years old

• Largest consumer of Internet pornography 12-17 age group

• 15-17 year olds having multiple hard-core exposures 80%

• 8-16 year olds having viewed porn online 90% (most while doing homework)

• 7-17 year olds who would freely give out home address 29%

• 7-17 year olds who would freely give out email address 14%

• Children's characters linked to thousands of porn links 26 (including Pokeman and Action Man)

Adult Internet Porn Statistics

• Men admitting to accessing pornography at work 20%

• US adults who regularly visit Internet pornography websites 40 million

• Promise Keeper men who viewed pornography in last week 53%

• Christians who said pornography is a major problem in the home 47%

• Adults admitting to Internet sexual addiction 10%

• Breakdown of male/female visitors to pornography sites 72% male - 28% female

Women and Pornography

• 13% of Women admit to accessing pornography at work.

• 70% of women keep their cyber activities secret.

• 17% of all women struggle with pornography addiction.

• Women, far more than men, are likely to act out their behaviors in real life, such as having multiple partners, casual sex, or affairs.

• Women favor chat rooms 2X more than men.

• 1 of 3 visitors to all adult web sites are women.

• 9.4 million women access adult web sites each month.

These statistics have been derived from a number of reputable sources including

Alexa research, NRC,PBS, WordTracker, Google, and MSNBC.

Obtained from http://www.familysafemedia.com/pornography_statistics.html