You have to read this! These statistics come from a variety of sources originally, and were taken from the Safe Families web site:
Miscellaneous Statistics about Pornography Use:
- The total porn industry revenue for 2006: $13.3 billion in the United States; $97 billion worldwide (Internet Filter Review).
- U.S. adult DVD/video rentals in 2005: almost 1 billion (Adult Video News).
- Percentage of hotel guests who rent an adult film: 55% (cbsnews.com). Percentage of in-room revenue generated by pornography in hotels that offer it: 70%
- Number of hardcore pornography titles released in 2005 (U.S.): 13,588 (Internet Filter Review).
- Adults admitting to Internet sexual addiction: 10%; 28% of those are women (internet-filter-review.com).
- More than 70% of men from 18 to 34 visit a pornographic site in a typical month (comScore Media Metrix).
Pornography and Divorce:
“At a 2003 meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, two thirds of the 350 divorce lawyers who attended said the Internet played a significant role in the divorces in the past year, with excessive interest in online porn contributing to more than half such cases. Pornography had an almost non-existent role in divorce just seven or eight years ago.” (Divorcewizards.com)
Statistics about Child Pornography:
- More than 20,000 images of child pornography posted online every week (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 10/8/03).
- Approximately 20% of all Internet pornography involves children (National Center for Mission & Exploited Children).
- 100,000 websites offer illegal child pornography (U.S. Customs Service estimate).
- As of December 2005, child pornography was a $3 billion annual industry (internet-filter-review.com).