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General Data on Internet Porn

· Of the $ 12 billion annual revenue of the porn Industry in the US, $ 2.5 billion is from internet porn.

· Pornographic websites: 4.2 million (12% of total websites)

· Pornographic pages: 372 million.

· Worldwide visitors to pornographic web sites: 72 million annually

· 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/user: 4.5 per internet user

· Monthly Pornographic downloads (Peer-to-peer): 1.5 billion (35% of all downloads)
(Source: Family Safe Media. www.familysafemedia.com)

· Adult content on mobile telephones and other portable devices is anticipated to hit $1 billion in worldwide
revenues during 2005, according to market research firm Juniper Research.
(www.protectkids.com)

· Sex is the #1 searched for topic on the Internet (Dr. Robert Weiss, Sexual Recovery Institute,
Washington Times, 1/26/2000)

In April 2001, there were 22.9 million unique visitors to porn sites. (Neilsen/Net Ratings, Inc.)

· Estimates for the number of X-rated sites on the net range from 20,000 to 7 million.
(CNET.com, “Sex on the Web,” April 28, 1999)

· 60% of all website visits are sexual in nature. (MSNBC Survey 2000)

· Over 28 million new pornographic web pages appeared in the month of July 2003 alone! (N2H2
Incorporated, 2004)

· 70% of employees admit to viewing or sending adult-oriented personal email at work. (Source: NFO
Worldwide)

· 76% of all email is unsolicited, and 48% of it contains a pornographic message. (American Family
Association, www.afa.net)

Internet Sexual Addiction

· 25 million Americans visit cyber-sex sites between 1-10 hours per week. Another 4.7 million in excess of 11
hours per week. (MSNBC/Stanford/Duquesne Study, Washington Times, 1/26/2000)

· Researchers at Stanford and Duquesne universities claim at least 200,000 Americans are hopelessly addicted to
E-porn. (Source: Koerner, Brendan I. "A Lust for Profits." U.S. News online.
3/27/2000

· One out of every 6 women, including Christians, struggles with an addiction to pornography. (Today’s Christian Woman, September/October 2003)

· An MSNBC/Stanford/Duquesne Study in 2000 found:

o Men prefer visual erotica twice as much as women
o Women favor chat rooms twice as much as men
o Women had a slightly lower rate of sexually compulsive Internet behavior
o 70% keep their habit a secret

· Fifty-one percent (51%) of pastors say cyber-porn is a possible temptation. Thirty-seven percent (37%) say it is
a current struggle. (Christianity Today, Leadership Survey, December 2001)

· Nearly eighteen percent (17.8%) of all “born again” Christian adults in America have visited a sexually oriented
website. (Zogby survey conducted for Focus on the Family, 2000)

· One in seven calls to Focus on the Family’s Pastoral Care hotline is about Internet pornography.
(Pastor’s Family Bulletin, Focus on the Family, March 2000)

Children & Internet Pornography

· It is estimated that 20% of all pornography on the internet involves children. (National Centre for
Missing Children, NCME http://www.missingkids.com/)

· The U.S. Customs Service estimates that there are more than 100,000 websites offering child pornography –
which is illegal, worldwide. (Red Herring Magazine, 1/18/02)

· Daily Gnutella “child pornography” requests: 116 thousand (Family Safe Media.
www.familysafemedia.com)

· More than 20,000 images of child pornography are posted on the Internet every week. (National
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 10/8/03)

· There has been a 345% increase in child pornography sites from 2/2001 – 7/2001. (N2H2 press release, 8/01)

· Of the 3 million unique users under seventeen that visited adult sites in September of 2000, 21.2% of them were
under the age of 14. (eStatNews, 1/9/01)

· Nine out of 10 children (90%) aged between eight and 16 have viewed pornography on the Internet. In most
cases, the sex sites were accessed unintentionally when a child, often in the process of doing homework, used
a seemingly innocent sounding word to search for information or pictures. (London School of
Economics, January 2002)

· 26 popular children’s characters, such as Pokemon, My Little Pony, and Action Man, revealed thousands of links to
porn sites. 30% were hard-core. (Envisional 2000)

· Pornographers disguise their sites (i.e. “stealth sites) with common brand names, including Disney, Barbie, ESPN,
etc., to entrap children. (Cyveillance Study, March 1999)

· 43% of children said they do not have rules about Internet use in their homes. (Time/CNN Poll, 2000)

· 62% of parents of teenagers are unaware that their children have accessed objectionable websites. (Source: Yankelovich Partners Study)

· Sexual solicitations of youth made in chat rooms: 89%(Family Safe Media. www.familysafemedia.com)

· Youths who received sexual solicitation: 20% (Family Safe Media. www.familysafemedia.com)

· One in five children who use computer chat rooms have been approached over the Internet by pedophiles.
(Detective Chief Superintendent Keith Akerman, Telegraph.co.uk January 2002)

· In 1998 the FBI opened up 700 cases dealing with online pedophilia, most for posting child pornography. By 2000
that figure quadrupled to 2,856 cases. (Source: The Web's Dark Secret. Newsweek. March 19,
2001)

· Approximately 20 new children appear on the porn sites every month - many kidnapped or sold into sex
(Combating Paedophile Information Networks in Europe, March 2003)

The Pornographic Market

· Annual worldwide pornography sales are $57 billion. (Internet Filter Review, “Pornography Statistics 2003”)·

- The daily revenue from the sale of porn CDs/DVDs in Palika Bazar in Delhi is between Rs. 60,000 to Rs.1 lakh.
(Source:Nikhat Kazmi, Times News Network, 2/08/05)

- Monthly expenses incurred by individual CD/DVD shop-owners (in Palika Bazar) to purchase content from local
retailers (Gurgaon, Faridabad) is Rs 10,000 to Rs. 20,000. (Source: Nikhat Kazmi, Times News
Network, 2/08/05)

- Annual rentals and sales of adult videos and DVD's top $4 billion, and the industry produces over 11,000 titles
each year - 20 times as many as Hollywood! (Source: Frammolino, Ralph & P.J. Huffstutter. "The
Actress, the Producer, & Their Porn Revolution." Los Angeles Times Magazine. 1/6/2002)

- The average American adolescent will view nearly 14,000 sexual references per year on television. Nearly one
third of all "family hour" shows contain sexual references. (Source: "Sexuality, Contraception, &
the Media." American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Public Education. 1/2001)

- The Kaisser Family Foundation found in their biennial “Sex on TV” report that TV’s
sexual content has grown from 56% of all shows in the 1997-98 TV season to 68% in the 1999-2000 season.
Seventy-five percent of prime-time network shows included sexual content.

- Analysts estimate that demand for sex services delivered via cell phones alone could be worth as much as £1
billion a year in the UK by 2005. (Source: Nikhat Kazmi, Times News Network, 02/08/05)

- Revenue from MMS porn is estimated to reach $425 billion globally in 2005. (Source: Nikhat Kazmi,
Times News Network, 02/08/05)

People and Pornography

· In a Kinsey Institute survey, respondents were asked "Why do you use porn?"

- 72% said they used porn to masturbate/for physical release.
- 69% - to sexually arouse themselves and/or others.
- 54% - out of curiosity.
- 43% - "because I can fantasize about things I would not necessarily want in real life."
- 38% - “to distract myself.”

· The National Council on Sexual Addiction Compulsivity estimated that 6%-8% of
Americans are sex addicts, which is 18 – 24 million people.

· More than 80% of women who are addicted to pornography take it offline. Women, far more than men, are likely
to act out their behaviors in real life, such as having multiple partners, casual sex, or affairs. (Today’s Christian Woman, September/October 2003)

· A survey by No-Porn.com revealed the following from 5750 respondents:

- 78% said they were addicted to pornography.
- 57% said they never told anyone about their addiction.
- 51% said they view porn daily.
- 45% were 11-15 years old when they first viewed porn. (10% were under the age of 10)

· Sixty-three percent (63%) of men attending “Men, Romance & Integrity Seminars” admit to struggling with porn in
the past year. Two-thirds (66%) are in church leadership and 10% are pastors. (Pastor’s Family
Bulletin, Focus on the Family, March 2000)

· Forty-seven percent (47%) of Christians admit that pornography is a major problem in their homes.
(Internet Filter Review, “Pornography Statistics 2003”)

· 1 in 5 born-again Christians believe that viewing magazines with nudity and sexually explicit pictures is morally
acceptable. (Barna Research Group, “Morality Continues to Decay,” 11/3/2003)

· "It is believed that 70% of women involved in pornography are survivors of incest or child sexual abuse." (Women of Substance, Inc., “Pornography Facts,” www.womenofsubstance.org/por.htm)

· Average age for first time contact with pornography is around 9 years old. Average age for seeking help is 30-35
years old. (Estherministries.org, 2002)

· “Most girls who enter the porn industry do one video and quit. The experience is so painful, horrifying,
embarrassing, humiliating for them that they never do it again.” (Luke Ford, quoted by CBS
News).