Internet Pornography
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- Two in five Internet users visited an adult site in August of 2005, according to tracking by comScore Media Metrix.
- 87% of university students polled have virtual sex mainly using Instant Messenger, webcam, and telephone ("CampusKiss and Tell" University and College Sex Survey. Released on February 14, 2006. CampusKiss.com. February 17, 2006).
- According to comScore Media Metrix, there were 63.4 million unique visitors to adult websites in December of 2005, reaching 37.2% of the Internet audience.
- According to the Florida Family Association, PornCrawler, their specialized software program, identified 20 U.S. companies that accounted for more than 70 percent of 297 million porn links on the Internet.
- By the end of 2004, there were 420 million pages of pornography, and it is believed that the majority of these websites are owned by less than 50 companies (LaRue, Jan. "Obscenity and the First Amendment." Summit on Pornography. Rayburn House Office Building. Room 2322. May 19, 2005).
- The Internet pornography industry generates $12 billion dollars in annual revenue -- larger than the combined annual revenues of ABC, NBC, and CBS (Family Safe Media, January 10, 2006).
- The largest group of viewers of Internet porn is children between ages 12 and 17 (Family Safe Media, December 15, 2005).
- According to comScore Media Metrix, 71.9 million people visited adult sites in August 2005, reaching 42.7 percent of the Internet audience.
- According to comScore Media Metrix, Internet users viewed over 15 billion pages of adult content in August 2005.
- According to comScore Media Metrix, Internet users spent an average of 14.6 minutes per day viewing adult content online.
- More than 32 million unique individuals visited a porn site in Sept. of 2003. Nearly 22.8 million of them were male (71 percent), while 9.4 million adult site visitors were female (29 percent) (Nielsen/Net Ratings, Sept. 2003).
- N2H2's database contained 14 million identified pages of pornography in 1998, so the growth to 260 million represents an almost 20-fold increase in just five years (N2H2, 9/23/03).
- The cybersex industry generates approximately $1 billion annually and is expected to grow to $5-7 billion over the next 5 years, barring unforeseen change (National Research Council Report, 2002).
- The total porn industry - estimates from $4 billion to $10 billion (National Research Council Report, 2002).
- The two largest individual buyers of bandwidth are U.S. firms in the adult online industry (National Research Council Report, 3-1, 2002).
- 40,000 expired domain names were porn-napped (National Research Council).
- Commercial pornography sites:
- -74 percent display free teaser porn images on the homepage, often porn banner ads.
- -66 percent did not include a warning of adult content.
- -11 percent included such a warning but did not have sexually explicit content on the homepage.
- -25 percent prevented users from exiting the site (mousetrapping).
- -Only 3 percent required adult verification. (Child-Proofing on the World Wide Web: A Survey of Adult Webservers, 2001, Jurimetrics. National Research Council Report, 2002).
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Last updated: 2008-02-07