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Internet Pornography Statistics
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Pornography Industry Revenue Statistics
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Size of
the industry
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$57.0 billion world-wide
- $12.0 billion US
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Adult videos
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$20 billion
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Escort
services
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$11 billion
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Magazines
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$7.5 billion
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Sex clubs
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$5 billion
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Phone sex
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$4.5 billion
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Cable/Pay
per view
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$2.5 billion
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Internet
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$2.5 billion
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CD-Rom
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$1.5 billion
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Novelties
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$1.0 billion
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Other
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$1.5 billion
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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
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Internet Pornography Statistics
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Pornographic
websites
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4.2 million (12% of
total websites)
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Pornographic
pages
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372 million
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Daily pornographic
search engine requests
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68 million (25% of
total search engine requests)
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Daily pornographic
emails
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2.5 billion (8% of
total emails)
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Average
daily pornographic emails/user
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4.5 per Internet user
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Monthly
Pornographic downloads (Peer-to-peer)
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1.5 billion (35% of
all downloads)
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Daily Gnutella
"child pornography" requests
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116 thousand
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Websites
offering illegal child pornography
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100 thousand
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Sexual
solicitations of youth made in chat rooms
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89%
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Youths
who received sexual solicitation
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20%
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Worldwide
visitors to pornographic web sites
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72 million annually
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Children Internet Pornography Statistics
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Average
age of first Internet exposure to pornography
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11 years old
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Largest
consumer of Internet pornography
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12 - 17 age group
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15-17 year
olds having multiple hard-core exposures
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80%
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8-16 year
olds having viewed porn online
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90% (most while doing
homework)
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7-17 year
olds who would freely give out home address
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29%
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7-17 year
olds who would freely give out email address
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14%
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Childrens'
character names linked to thousands of porn links
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26 (Including Pokeman
and Action Man)
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Adult Internet Pornography Statistics
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Men admitting
to accessing pornography at work
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20%
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US adults
who regularly visit Internet pornography websites
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40 million
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Adults
admitting to Internet sexual addiction
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10%
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Breakdown
of male/female visitors to pornography sites
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72% male - 28% female
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Women and Pornography
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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.
Women admitting to accessing pornography at work
13%
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