Some interesting porn facts:
 

# There are 1.3 million porn websites (N2H2, 9/23/03).

# 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).

# Pornographic web pages now top 260 million and growing at an unprecedented rate (N2H2, 9/23/03).

# 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 billion annually and is expected to grow to -7 billion over the next 5 years, barring unforeseen change (National Research Council Report, 2002).

# The total porn industry - estimates from billion to 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).

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

# 60% of all web-site visits are sexual in nature. (MSNBC/Standford/Duquesne Study, Washington Times, 1/26/2000)

# 58% of the public surveyed believed that "the government should be able to restrict the posting of sexually explicit materials on the Internet, even though those same materials can be legally published in books and magazines." (State of the First Amendment Study, First Amendment Center, Freedom Forum, 2000)




from: reportchildporn.com/news.php

Very interesting...

Thanks :)

Probably 80% of the people most against porn on the Internet have either visited those types of sites themselves or has had a spouse visit them. What people say, and what people actually do are always two different stories.

It might just be me, but I think that that estimate is rather low, even for 2003..

some good info there

thanks for the info, though it's obvious (even without the dates of the info) that some of these stats have changed. A more recent report showed sex-related searches are way down as an overall % ... guess people finally are starting to get sick of pop-over-under-behinds, trojan horses, endless TGPs ... not to mention peer2peer file sharing which spreads even more free porn around.

thanks for the info