The size of the porn industry is worth $12 billion dollars in the U.S and $57 billion dollars world wide.
Porn revenue is larger than all combined revenues of all professional football, baseball and basketball franchises.
Internet Porn:
Children's Exposure to Pornography:
Porn revenue is larger than all combined revenues of all professional football, baseball and basketball franchises.
Internet Porn:
- 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)
- Average daily pornographic emails/user 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 received sexual solicitation 20%
- Worldwide visitors to pornographic web sites 72 million annually
Children's Exposure to Pornography:
- Average age of first Internet exposure to pornography 11 years old
- Largest consumer of Internet pornography 12-17 age group
- 15-17 year old's having multiple hard-core exposures 80%
- 8-16 year old's having viewed porn online 90% (most while doing homework)
- 7-17 year old's who would freely give out home address 29%
- 7-17 year old's who would freely give out email address 14%
Women and Pornography:
- 13% of Women admit to accessing pornography at work.
- 70% of women keep their cyber activities secret.
- 17% of all women struggle with pornography addiction.
- Women, far more than men, are likely to act out their behaviors in real life, such as having multiple partners, casual sex, or affairs.
- Women favor chat rooms 2X more than men.
- 1 of 3 visitors to all adult web sites are women.
- 9.4 million women access adult web sites each month.
- This chart shows the latest interactive advertising Bureau statistics up to 2006. Which shows about $4.8 Billion dollars in internet advertising revenue. These charts usually just show the US revenue but the estimated advertising revenue globally is about $406 billion dollars as of 2006 so it is much more as of date.
- This just goes to show how much money is put into the pornography industry every year and how much people are exposed to pornography daily. This is a huge industry that is a big money maker in the United States.
Obtained from http://www.familysafemedia.com/pornography_statistics.html