SEX STATISTICS - Internet Pornography

The following statistics are from The National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Familes, and can be found at www.nationalcoalition.org

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Internet Pornography

• Approximately 40 million people in the United States are sexually involved with the Internet Exposing Porn: Science, Religion, and the New Addiction, Paul Strand.  Christian Broadcasting Network, 2004.
• 2.5 billion emails per day are pornographic.  Pornography Statistics 2003.  Family Safe Media.  www.familysafemedia.com, 2003.
• 25 percent of all search engine requests are pornography related
  Internet Pornography Statistics: 2003, David C. Bissette, Psy.D.  www.healthymind.com, 2004.
  
• Sex sites on the Web generate at least $1 billion per year in revenue.  Wall Street Meets Pornography.  New York Times, 23 October, 2000.
  
• 72 million Internet users visit pornography web sites per year. Pornography Statistics 2003.  Internet Filter Review.  www.internetfilterreview.com, 2003.
  
• 94 percent of Americans believe a ban on Internet pornography should be legal.  Statistics on Internet Pornography.  www.levelbest.com.
  
• Nearly 1.4 million Americans are stalked online each year (4 out of 5 are women).  Stalkers Online, Andrea Rock.  Ladies’ Home Journal, March 2000.
  
• Sex is the number 1 topic searched on the Internet.  Overdosing on Porn, Rebecca Hagelin.  www.worldandi.com, March, 2004.
  
• 34 percent of churchgoing women said they have intentionally visited porn websites online.  Internet porn a guy thing?  Not really, online rating service says, Mark O’Keefe.  The Charlotte Observer.
• Less than 10% of sexual solicitations and only 3% of unwanted exposure on the Internet were reported to authorities.  Online Victimization: A Report on the Nation’s Youth.  National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Crimes Against Children, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2000.
  
• Out of 81 pastors surveyed (74 males 7 female), 98% were exposed to porn; 43% intentionally accessed a sexually explicit website.  National Coalition survey of pastors.  Seattle.  April 2000.
  
• Porn site architects were among the first to perfect full-streaming video and audio on the Web and among the first to persuade apprehensive consumers to divulge credit card numbers to someone unknown to them on the Internet, which developed e-commerce.  The Architects of Porn.  VARBusiness, 28 April 2000.
  
• “82 percent of adult Americans surveyed in March 2004 said that the Federal laws against Internet obscenity should be vigorously enforced.”Americans STILL want federal obscenity laws enforced!  The Morality in Media Newsletter, June, 2004.
  
• At least 20,000 American adults visit Internet sex sites at least 11 hours per week.  Victims of Pornography Month Should Not Exist, Jan Larue.  Christian Counseling Today, 2003 Vol. 11 No. 3.
  
• The most common ways people have accidentally reached pornographic content on the Web are pop-up windows (55%), misrepresented links (52%), misspelled URLs (48%) and auto links within emails (23%).  Fifty Percent of Workers Spend Nine days a Year on Personal Surfing at Work.  Cerberian Inc. and SonicWALL, 20 July 2004.
  
• While 77% of surveyed people said they thought their computers were well-protected, 4 out of 5 had spyware or adware programs running on their computers.  Home PCs not so safe?  CNN Money, 25 October, 2004. money.com
  
• 15 percent of online porn habitués develop sexual behavior that disrupts their lives.  The Porn Factor, Pamela Paul.  www.time.com.  19 January, 2004.
  
• 75.5 percent of surveyed adults said it was okay to visit an adult web site, while 79.7% said it was okay for a significant other to reply to an unsolicited instant message or chat with a stranger of the opposite sex.  ‘My Wife doesn’t care’ if I fool around online, Leslie Miller.  USA Today, 10 July, 2000.
  
• According to Datamonitor, over half of all spending on the Internet is related to sexual activity. Each day 30 million people log on to pornographic Web sites. Internet pornography statistics. Internet Filter Review, 2003.
  
• In 2004, there were 372 million pornographic Web pages, 2.5 billion emails (8% of total emails), 100 thousand Web sites offering illegal child pornography, and 72 million annual worldwide visitors to pornographic websites. Internet Pornography Statistics.  Internet Filter Review, 2004.
  
• 9.3 million women access adult websites each month.
  Internet Pornography Statistics.  Internet Filter Review, 2004.