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PORNOGRAPHY STATISTICS AND STUDIES
Pornography Revenues
- The annual revenues from the pornography industry in the U.S. are $13.3 billion. This is more than the National Football League, the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball all combined; more than NBC, CBS and ABC combined; larger than the revenues of the top technology companies combined: Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, Apple, Netflix and Earthlink.
- Worldwide, the pornography industry generates $57 billion.
-Internet Filter Review - The pornography industry produces more than 11,000 pornographic “adult entertainment”, movies per year, more than 20 times the number of mainstream Hollywood movies.
-LA Times Magazine - 55% of the movie rentals in hotel chains are pornographic “adult entertainment” moves.
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Internet Pornography
- There are 72 million unique visitors to adult websites per month, worldwide.
- There are 420 million pages of pornographic material online worldwide.
- 40 million U.S. adults regularly visit porn sites.
- 8% of all emails are porn-related.
- 90% of 8 – 16 year olds have viewed porn online (most while doing homework)
- Average age of first internet porn exposure is 11 years old.
- Largest consumer group of internet pornography is the 12 – 17 year old age group.
-Internet Filter Review (www.internetfilterreview.com) - 12% of all websites are pornographic in nature.
- 25% of all search engine requests are for pornography.
- 35% of all internet downloads are pornographic in nature.
- Every second, there are 28, 258 internet porn users in the U.S.
- 266 new pornographic sites are added each day.
-Top Ten Reviews - 70% of all internet porn traffic occurs during the 9 – 5 workdays.
- Nearly one in three companies has terminated an employee for inappropriate web use.
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Impact
- After watching only 6 hours of nonviolent pornography, research subjects in one study were much less likely to desire sexual intimacy with their real partners, or to be interested in marriage or children.
- Zillman and Bryant - One psychiatrist specializing in treatment of sexual dysfunction estimates that 60% of his cases are directly related to the use of internet pornography.
- The Sunday Paper, Atlanta - It is estimated that 15% of people using internet pornography develop a compulsive habit that disrupts their lives.
- Paul, 2004 - At the 2002 American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers convention, attorneys present reported that 56% of their recent divorce cases resulted from a spouse’s compulsive internet porn use.
- Paul, 2005 - One therapist in Boston reports treating children as young as 10 for porn addiction.
- Boston Globe, 2005 - Studies show that after viewing pornography men are more likely to:
- report decreased empathy for rape victims
- report believing that a woman who dresses provocatively deserves to be raped
- report anger at women who flirt but then refuse to have sex
- report decreased sexual interest in their girlfriends or wives
- report increased interest in coercing partners into unwanted sex acts
- The links between pornography use and subsequent aggression was proven so successfully by Zillman and Bryant that their studies cannot be replicated for fear of further harming possible research subjects.
- Paul, 2005 - Some women in relationships with male users of pornography report the following:
- a sense that their partners are fantasizing about pornography during sex,
- frustration that their partners no longer seek them out for lovemaking and instead prefer to masturbate to pornography,
- pain and confusion about their partners asking them to participate in sexual acts seen in pornography,
- a strong decline in intimacy and connection with their partners,
- intrusive thoughts during sex about how they look rather than how they feel,
- guilt-ridden compliance to act more like the women in porn—to shave their genitals, to strip, to have anal sex or threesomes, to be tied up or spanked, to be filmed having sex and, in general, to act in ways that feel demeaning, inauthentic, and uncomfortable.
( Ana Bridges, researcher, in Getting Off by Robert Jensen )
