What percentage of adult traffic are underage?

[Jakez]

Have there been any studies on this? Any educated guesses?

[Nicky]

I'd say ~20%

[Jakez]

How does Alexa get their age data?

[baryl]

You fill that information out when you install the toolbar so it's pretty useless.

[fuzebox]

I guess one could form some stats based on the fact that boys start jerking off at age 12-13, and then look at an estimated breakdown of online usage by age.

[19teenporn]

One point sixty three

[Just Alex]

Any educated guesses?

[Jakez]

You fill that information out when you install the toolbar so it's pretty useless.

Why does Alexa only show statistics for people over 18 anyways? They aren't allowed to question people under 18 or something?

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Move along tool. No dutch people here for you to call clown shoes and Pipo repeatedly.

[porno jew]

Each year about 40 percent of teens and preteens visit sexually explicit sites either deliberately or accidentally, studies here and abroad show. In a study in the February Pediatrics (Vol. 119, No. 2, pages 247-257), for example, attorney Janis Wolak, psychologist Kimberly Mitchell, PhD, and Finkelhor, of the UNH center, found that 42 percent of a nationally representative sample of 1,500 Internet users ages 10 to 17 had been exposed to online porn in the last year, with two-thirds reporting only unwanted exposure. In fact, the incidence of unwanted exposure has risen for this age group, from about 26 percent between 1999 and 2000, to 34 percent in 2005, the team has found.
Perhaps not surprisingly, boys are much more likely to seek out pornography than girls, and use increases with age, research finds. In the UNH team's study, for instance, 38 percent of 16- and 17-yea-rold male Internet users deliberately visited X-rated sites in the past year, compared with 8 percent of girls. Similarly, Australian sociologist Michael Flood, PhD, of La Trobe University, reported in the March issue of the Journal of Sociology (Vol. 43, No. 1, pages 45-60) that 38 percent of boys and 2 percent of girls ages 16 and 18 deliberately accessed such material.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/nov07/webporn.aspx

[Jakez]

Each year about 40 percent of teens and preteens visit sexually explicit sites either deliberately or accidentally, studies here and abroad show. In a study in the February Pediatrics (Vol. 119, No. 2, pages 247-257), for example, attorney Janis Wolak, psychologist Kimberly Mitchell, PhD, and Finkelhor, of the UNH center, found that 42 percent of a nationally representative sample of 1,500 Internet users ages 10 to 17 had been exposed to online porn in the last year, with two-thirds reporting only unwanted exposure. In fact, the incidence of unwanted exposure has risen for this age group, from about 26 percent between 1999 and 2000, to 34 percent in 2005, the team has found.
Perhaps not surprisingly, boys are much more likely to seek out pornography than girls, and use increases with age, research finds. In the UNH team's study, for instance, 38 percent of 16- and 17-yea-rold male Internet users deliberately visited X-rated sites in the past year, compared with 8 percent of girls. Similarly, Australian sociologist Michael Flood, PhD, of La Trobe University, reported in the March issue of the Journal of Sociology (Vol. 43, No. 1, pages 45-60) that 38 percent of boys and 2 percent of girls ages 16 and 18 deliberately accessed such material.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/nov07/webporn.aspx

Thanks for the link. The "Proactive parenting" section is pretty interesting too.

Authoritative and authoritarian parents were much more likely than indulgent or neglectful ones to limit their youngsters' use of MySpace, for example by keeping tabs on their children's MySpace pages and requiring them to keep the computer in family rooms, the team found. In turn, the teens appeared to internalize those messages by, for example, not looking at suggestive poses of fellow MySpace users as much as those with indulgent or neglectful parents.

"Basically you're looking at clear, obvious differences in parenting styles, even in what kids see on MySpace," says Rosen. "These kids have rules, and they're following those rules."

[Just Alex]

No dutch people here for you to call clown shoes and Pipo repeatedly.

I can see that Brits taking over.

[anexsia]

shit, when I was a kid I watched porn and so did all my friends.

[Paul Markham]

This will tell you the number of potential teen surfers.



This will show the numbers of births 12-18 years ago.

Live Births and Birth Rates, by Year

The following table shows the number of live births and the birth rate in the United States between 1910 and 2005.

Year Births1 Rate2


19523 3,913,000 25.1
19533 3,965,000 25.1
19543 4,078,000 25.3
1955 4,104,000 25.0
19563 4,218,000 25.2
19573 4,308,000 25.3
19583 4,255,000 24.5
19593 4,295,000 24.3
19603 4,257,850 23.7
19613 4,268,326 23.3
19623 4,167,362 22.4
19633 4,098,020 21.7
19643 4,027,490 21.0
19653 3,760,358 19.4
19663 3,606,274 18.4
19674 3,520,959 17.8
19683 3,501,564 17.5
19693 3,600,206 17.8
19703 3,731,386 18.4
19713 3,555,970 17.2
1972 3,258,411 15.6
1973 3,136,965 14.9
1974 3,159,958 14.9
1975 3,144,198 14.8
1976 3,167,788 14.8
1977 3,326,632 15.4
1978 3,333,279 15.3
1979 3,494,398 15.9
1980 3,612,258 15.9
1982 3,680,537 15.9
1983 3,638,933 15.5
1984 3,669,141 15.5
1985 3,760,561 15.8
1986 3,731,000 15.5
1987 3,829,000 15.7
1988 3,913,000 15.9
1989 4,021,000 16.2
1990 4,179,000 16.7
1991 4,111,000 16.2
1992 4,084,000 16.0
1993 4,039,000 15.7
1994 3,979,000 15.3
1995 3,892,000 14.8
1996 3,899,000 14.7
1997 3,882,000 14.5
1998 3,941,553 14.6
1999 3,959,417 14.5
2000 4,058,814 14.7

Read more: Live Births and Birth Rates, by Year ? Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A00050...#ixzz1oVf1YdLf

Figure out the sex drive of 12-18 year old's compared to older males, do the maths and there's a good guess.

[INever]

shit, when I was a kid I watched porn and so did all my friends.

And everyone turned out alright!

[Jakez]

And everyone turned out alright!

Or did they?

[anexsia]

And everyone turned out alright!

[anexsia]

Or did they?

to bad there wasn't any tubes around than and man when tgps came out...talk about wanting to throw my fucking keyboard at the monitor every time I was jerked around to sites I didn't want to go to

[Jel]

this 'unwanted exposure' to explicit sites that they 'accidentally' access - is this google images with safesearch off?

I truly have no idea how someone can 'accidentally' access a porn site by typing in non-porn keywords. The only time I ever have that experience is with google images. Anyone managed to hit a porn site 'accidentally' before? In say, the last 5 years?

[raymor]

Or did they?

It's not like after looking at porn we grew up to be pornographers or something. Oh wait ...

[Nicky]

Or did they?

[Fletch XXX]

and the more kids with mobile devices it is growing.

notice all the parental shit went out window now every kid has a cell phone with internet, where are all the parents going crazy trying to block sites etc like they grand stand on home computer? they blamed porn industry for making intetrnet unsafe for kids, now evey kid has a mobile tablet/phone.

[martinsc]

[madm1k3]

Basically any teenage boy with an internet connection is looking at porn for hours a day. They probably consume the most bandwidth on any tube site. There will be zero information on this because no one under 18 is paying for thier own internet so how can it be tracked? The only think stopping kids from looking at porn is Facebook because there is real girls on there

[baryl]

If I had the internet when I was a kid I probably never would have left the house

There's no technical way to block underage surfers and it's up to parents to actually, you know, parent. I don't want underage people on my sites anymore than they do.