Porn revenue is larger than all combined revenues of all professional football, baseball and basketball franchises.
US porn revenue exceeds the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, and NBC ($6.2 billion)
Child pornography generates $3 billion annually.
Internet Porn Statistics
Pornographic websites
4.2 million (12% of total websites)
Pornographic pages
372 million
Daily pornographic search engine requests
68 million (25% of total search engine requests)
Daily pornographic emails
2.5 billion (8% of total emails)
Average daily pornographic emails/users
4.5 per Internet user
Monthly Pornographic downloads (peer-to-peer)
1.5 billion (35% of all downloads)
Websites offering illegal child pornography
100 thousand
Sexual solicitations of youth made in chat rooms
89%
Youths who receive sexual solicitation
20%
Worldwide visitors to pornographic websites
72 million annually
Children’s Exposure to Pornography
Average age of first Internet exposure to pornography
8 years old
Nearly one-third (31%) have a computer in their bedroom, and one in five (20%) have an Internet connection there (Kaiser Study 2005)
8-18 age group
Largest consumer of Internet pornography
12-17 age group
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 characters linked to thousands of porn links
26 (including Pokeman and Action Man)
Adult Internet Porn Statistics
Men admitting to accessing pornography at work
20%
US adults who regularly visit Internet pornography websites
40 million
Promise Keeper men who viewed pornography in the last week
53%
Christians who said pornography is a major problem in the home
47%
Adults admitting to Internet sexual addiction
10%
Male/female visitors to pornography sites
72% male – 28% female
Women who admit to accessing pornography at work
13%
Women who keep their cyber activities secret
70%
Internet Pornography statistics become outdated very quickly, especially in the Internet environment where numbers change daily.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, Word Tracker, PBS, MSNBC, NRC, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Study, and Alexa research.
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