Internet Pornography statistics become outdated very quickly, especially in the Internet environment where numbers change daily. These statistics have been derived from a number of different reputable sources including Google, WordTracker, PBS, MSNBC, NRC, and Alexa research.
Cited from: http://www.mykidsbrowser.com/pornography_stats.php
| Pornography Industry Statistics |
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Size of the Industry |
$57.0 billion world-wide – $12.0 billion US |
| Adult Videos |
$20.0 billion |
| Escort Services |
$11.0 billion |
| Magazines |
$ 7.5 billion |
| Sex Clubs |
$ 5.0 billion |
| Phone Sex |
$ 4.5 billion |
| Cable & Pay Per View |
$ 2.5 billion |
| Internet |
$ 2.5 billion |
| CD-Rom |
$ 1.5 billion |
| Novelties |
$ 1.0 billion |
| Other |
$ 1.5 billion |
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Porn revenue is larger than all combined revenues of all professional football, baseball and basketball franchises. |
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US porn revenue exceeds the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, and NBC (6.2 billion) |
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Child pornography generates $3 billion annually |
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| Children’s Exposure to Pornography |
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Average age of first Internet exposure to pornography |
11 years old |
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Largest consumer of Internet pornography |
12-17 age group |
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15-17 year olds having multiple hard-core exposures |
80% |
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8-16 year olds having viewed porn online |
90% (most while doing homework) |
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7-17 year olds who would freely give out home address |
29% |
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7-17 year olds who would freely give out email address |
14% |
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Children’s characters linked to thousands of porn links |
26 (including Pokeman and Action Man) |
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| Adult Internet Porn Statistics |
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Men admitting to accessing pornography at work |
20% |
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US adults who regularly visit Internet pornography websites |
40 million |
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Promise Keeper men who viewed pornography in last week |
53% |
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Christians who said pornography is a major problem in the home |
47% |
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Adults admitting to Internet sexual addiction |
10% |
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Breakdown of male/female visitors to pornography sites |
72% male – 28% female |
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| Women and Pornography |
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13% of Women admit to accessing pornography at work. |
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70% of women keep their cyber activities secret. |
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17% of all women struggle with pornography addiction. |
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Women, far more than men, are likely to act out their behaviors in real life, such as having multiple partners, casual sex, or affairs. |
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Women favor chat rooms 2X more than men. |
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1 of 3 visitors to all adult web sites are women. |
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9.4 million women access adult web sites each month. |
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| Internet Porn Statistics |
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Pornographic websites |
4.2 million (12% of total websites) |
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Pornographic pages |
372 million |
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Daily pornographic search engine requests |
68 million (25% of total search engine requests) |
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Daily pornographic emails |
2.5 billion (8% of total emails) |
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Average daily pornographic emails/user |
4.5 per Internet user |
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Monthly Pornographic downloads (Peer-to-peer) |
1.5 billion (35% of all downloads) |
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Daily Gnutella “child pornography” requests |
116 thousand |
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Websites offering illegal child pornography |
100 thousand |
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Sexual solicitations of youth made in chat rooms |
89% |
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Youths who received sexual solicitation |
20% |
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Worldwide visitors to pornographic web sites |
72 million annually |
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