Definition of Pornography
Sexually explicit pictures, writing or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.

Statistics: General
• Porn generates up to $12 Billion dollars in the US.

• Porn profits are estimated to be $57 Billion worldwide
• more than the combined revenues of the NFL, NBA and MLB!
• more than the combined revenues of NBC, CBS and ABC!
(http://internet-filterreview/toptenreviews.com/internet-pornographystatistics.
html, Jerry Ropelato, retrieved January 2006)

• The average age at which a child is first exposed to pornography is 11 years old.

• 75% of 15-17 year olds say they have had multiple exposures to hard-core pornography.

• 64% of teens say teens do things online they wouldn’t want their parents to know about.

• 20% of children (10-17 years old) receive unwanted sexual solicitations online. (The Porn Standard, Children and Pornography on the Internet, A Third Way Report, Sean Barney, Senior Policy Advisor, July 2005)

• In 2000, there were 11,000 adult titles vs. Hollywood’s 400 releases. (New York Times, May 20, 2001, “Naked Capitalists: There’s No Business Like Porn Business,” Frank Rich)

• A 2005 poll by NBC and Elle Magazine found that 24% of men who viewed pornography say it influenced their idea of beauty. The same poll found that 28% of men who view pornography have asked their partner to get breast implants.

Statistics: Adult
• 20% of men admit to accessing pornography at work

• 40 million US adults regularly visit Internet pornography websites

• 53% of Promise Keeper men indicated they viewed pornography in last week

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

• 10% of adults admit to Internet sexual addiction

• 72% male / 28% female: The breakdown (by sex) of visitors to pornography sites

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Points to Ponder
• Sexual addiction counselors may recommend 3-9 months without television for a person with a heavy pornography addiction, enabling them to heal from being so sexualized. (Commercials provide eye-candy fixes.)

• Pornographers claim pornography offers greater fulfillment, performance and freedom in one’s sexual life.

Statistics: Women
• 1 in 3 visitors to all adult web sites are women

• 70% of women keep their cyber activities secret

• 17% of all women struggle with pornography addiction

• 9.4 million women access adult web sites each month

• 13% of women admit to accessing pornography at work

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

• Women favor chat rooms two times more than men

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Points to Ponder
• Pornography turns women into objects; a collection of body-parts. This fuels the infamous “Rape Myth,” directly increasing the incidence of violence and sexual abuse against women.

• This “objectification” focuses solely on the physical, diverting attention away from the many gifts, talents and abilities women possess as human beings and contributors in society.

• Pornography actually increases the number of sexual assaults against women.

• Pornography destroys healthy intimacy in marriage.

• Sexualized media is all around us and is having an extremely powerful effect on the way women see and feel about themselves.

• With hard-core pornography readily accessible in homes, offices and libraries, many women are feeling the stress of being around men in a “narrowed state” following porn viewing.

Statistics: Children
• The average age of first Internet exposure to pornography is 11 years old

• 80% of 15-17 year olds have had multiple hard-core exposures

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

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

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

• 26 children's character names (including Pokemon and Action Man) are linked to thousands of porn links

(http://internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html)

Points to Ponder
• Pornography and sexualized media push teens to become sexually active.

• Pornography and sexualized media distort the way teens view themselves and others: many teenage girls attempt to alter their dress and physical appearance to correspond to the sexualized modes they see in the media

• Pornography and sexualized media, are teaching teens that sex without responsibility is not only acceptable but preferable and desirable. Teenagers are being bombarded with “adult” sexual images and situations long before they have the emotional maturity, wisdom, and life experiences to make informed decisions and choices.

(Excerpted from The Drug of The New Millennium)

• Children are notorious for imitating what they’ve seen, read or heard. Studies suggest that exposure to pornography can prompt kids to act out sexually against younger, smaller or more vulnerable children.

• Experts in the field of childhood sexual abuse report that any premature sexual activity in children always points to two possible stimulants: experience or exposure. This means that the sexually deviant child may either have been molested or simply exposed to sexuality through pornography. In a study of 600 American males and females of junior high school age and above, researcher Dr. Jennings Bryant found that 91% of the males and 82% of the females admitted to having been exposed to X-rated, hark-core pornography. Over 66% of the males and 40% of the females reported wanting to “try out” some of the sexual behaviors they had witnesses. And among high schoolers, 31% of males and 18% of females admitted to actually doing some of the prurient things they had seen in the pornography within a few days of exposure.

(Donna Rich Hughes, Kids Online: Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace, published by Fleming H. Revell, a Division of Baker Book House Company, Grand Rapids, MI, 1998, p.88)

Quotables
“In over 26 years, I have treated approximately 350 males afflicted with sexual addictions (sometimes referred to as sexual compulsions). In about 94% of the cases I have found that pornography was a contributor, facilitator or direct causal agent in the acquiring of these sexual illnesses.” (Victor B. Cline, “Pornography and Sexual Addictions,”Christian Counseling Today 4, no.4 (1996): 58.)

“I have been treating sexual violence victims and perpetrators for 13 years. I have not treated a single case of sexual violence that did not involve pornography.” ( Dr. Mary Anne Layden, University of Pennsylvania Haven Bradford, “Child Sex Abuse: America’s Dirty Little Secret.” MS Voices for Children. 3/2000)

“The more pornography a man views, the less in love he feels with his wife.” (Don’t Take Love Lying Down, Brad Henning, pg. 388)

“Pornography makes a profit from the ruined lives of young women and entraps men who will spend lots of time and money succumbing to their product.” (Toxic Sex, Toxic Porn, Gene McConnell)

“Research shows that heavy exposure to media sex is associated with an increased perception of the frequency of sexual activity in the real world. As a result, television may function as a kind of ‘superpeer,’ normalizing these behaviors and, thus, encouraging them among teenagers.” (Pediatrics Vol. 107 No. 1 January 2001, pp. 191- 194 America Academy of Pediatrics, “Sexuality, Contraception, and the Media”)

Industry Overview
Pornographic Websites: 4.2 million (12% of all websites)

Pornographic Pages: 372 million

Daily Pornographic Search Engine Requests: $68 million (25% of all search engine requests)

Daily Pornographic Emails: 2.5 billion (8% of all 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: 116,000

Websites Offering Illegal Child Pornography: 100,000

Sexual Solicitations of Youth Made in Chat Rooms: 89%

Youths Who Received Sexual Solicitation: 20%

Worldwide Visitors to Pornographic Web Sites: 72 million (annually)

Revenues: $57 billion (worldwide); $12 billion (US)