Pornography Statistics

• The pornography industry has grown to a $97 billion business worldwide; 13 billion is in the United States.
•  Internet pornography in the United States is a $3 billion industry
• Every second, $3,075.64 is being spent on pornography, 28,258 Internet viewers are viewing pornography, 372 Internet users are typing adult search terms into search engines, and every 39 minutes, a new pornographic video is made in the United States. (Internet Filter Review, 2006)
• One out of 3 youth who viewed pornography, viewed the pornography intentionally.[1]
• Seven out of 10 youth have accidentally come across pornography online.[2]
•  Nearly 80% of unwanted exposure to pornography is taking place in the home (79% occurs in the home; 9% occurs at school; 7% other/unknown; 5% friend’s home).[3]
• Kids experienced unwanted exposure to sexual material via:[4]

o   40% link came up as a result of an innocent word search

o   17% clicked on a link in another site

o   14% pop-up

o   13% other

o   12% misspelled web address

o   4% don’t know

• Type of material youth encounter when unwanted exposure to pornography occurs:[5]

o   86% naked people

o   37% people having sex

o   13% violent pictures

o   10% pictures involving animals or other strange things

•  Internet pornography was blamed for a 20% increase in sexual attacks by children over three years.[6]
• Roughly two-thirds (67%) of young men and one-half (49%) of young women agree that viewing pornography is acceptable.[7]
• Nearly 9 out of 10 (87%) young men and one-third (31%) of young women report using pornography.[8]
•  Experts have warned that the rise in the viewing of pornography was implicated in a variety of problems, including a rise in the levels of STDs and teenage pregnancies.  Additionally, males aged between 12 and 17 who regularly viewed pornography had sex at an earlier stage in life and were more likely to initiate oral sex, apparently imitating what they had seen. [9]

Child Pornography

• Child pornography is a $3-billion industry. (Top Ten Reviews)
• Child pornography is one of the fastest growing businesses online, and the content is becoming much worse.  (Internet Watch Foundation)  Internet Watch Foundation confirmed 1536 child abuse domains in 2008.
•  The fastest growing demand in commercial websites for child abuse is for images depicting the worst type of abuse, including penetrative sexual activity involving children and adults and sadism or penetration by an animal.  58% of child sexual abuse images depict this level of abuse. (IWF, 2008)
•  69% of all victims in child abuse images are between the ages of 0 and 10 years old. (IWF, 2008)
•  In a study of arrested child pornography possessors, 40 percent had both sexually victimized children and were in possession of child pornography. Of those arrested between 2000 and 2001, 83 percent had images involving children between the ages 6 and 12; 39 percent had images of children between ages 3 and 5; and 19% had images of infants and toddlers under age 3 (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Child Pornography Possessors Arrested in Internet-Related Crimes: Findings fro the National Juvenile Online Victimization Study. 2005).

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