Alarming Statistics
From Top Ten Reviews:
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From Blazing Grace:
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2006 Usage:
- Every second – $3,075.64 is being spent on pornography
- Every second – 28,258 Internet users are viewing pornography
- Every second – 372 Internet users are typing adult search terms into search engines
- Every 39 minutes: a new pornographic video is being created in the United States
2006 Worldwide Revenues: 97.06 billion. US, 13.33 billion.
- The pornography industry is larger than the revenues of the top technology companies combined: Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, Apple, Netflix and EarthLink
- At 13.3 billion, the 2006 revenues of the sex and porn industry in the U.S. are bigger than the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball combined.
2006 Children Internet Pornography Statistics
- Average age of first Internet exposure to pornography: 11 years old
- 15-17 year olds having multiple hard-core exposures: 80%
- 8-16 year olds having viewed porn online: (90% (most while doing homework)
- 7-17 year olds who would freely give out home address: 29%
- 7-17 year olds who would freely give out email address: 14%
- Children’s character names linked to thousands of porn links: 26 (Including Pokemon and Action Man)
2006 Internet Pornography Statistics:
- Pornographic websites: 4.2 million
- Pornographic pages: 420 million
- Daily pornographic search engine requests: 68 million
- Daily pornographic emails: 2.5 billion
- Internet users who view porn: 42.7%
- Monthly Pornographic downloads (Peer-to-peer): 1.5 billion
- 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: 1 in 7
- United States has 244,661,900 porn pages
- Largest consumer of Internet pornography: 35 – 49 age group
- Men admitting to accessing pornography at work: 20%
- Promise Keeper men who viewed pornography in last week: 53%
- Christians who said pornography is a major problem in the home: 47%
- Breakdown of male/female visitors to pornography sites: 72% male – 28% female
- 60% of all website visits are sexual in nature
- The No. 1 search term used at search engine sites is the word “sex”.
- The study also found that “pornography/porno” was the fourth-most searched for subject.
- 72 million: The approximate number of unique visitors to adult websites in 2006, per month, worldwide.
- 420 million: Total number of porn pages worldwide
- Women keeping their cyber activities secret: 70%
- Percentage of visitors to adult websites who are women: 1 in 3 visitors
- Women accessing adult websites each month: 13%