Pornography

Fast Facts

  • Internet pornography generates $12 billion dollars in annual revenue – larger than the annual revenues of ABC, NBC, and CBS combined.1
  • 60% of all web-site visits are sexual in nature.2
  • The largest group of viewers of internet porn is children between ages 12 and 17.3
  • The average age of first exposure to internet porn is 11.4
  • 1 in 5 youths are sexually solicited on the internet.5
  • 73% of U.S. adults consider it morally unacceptable to view pornography.6

 

Footnotes:

  1. Family Safe Media, "Pornography Statistics," n.d. Retrieved June 2007 from http://www.familysafemedia.com/pornography_statistics.html.
  2. MSNBC/Stanford/Duquesne study, Washington Times, Jan. 26, 2000.
  3. Family Safe Media, "Pornography Statistics," n.d. Retrieved June 2007 from http://www.familysafemedia.com/pornography_statistics.html.
  4. Ibid.
  5. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 2000.
  6. Washington Times, retrieved from http://www.washtimes.com/culture/20060724-110417-2861r.htm.

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