Why?

Sometimes, people pick fights with very specific things that are mainstream in our society. Sometimes these things are more mainstream than we would like to admit, but that is beside the point here. These fights are usually picked because the one who is now on the offensive was once affected by this thing. They are usually motivated by something close to anger because of the fact that this thing once hurt them. You can call it resolve.

Some people fight abortion; others focus on drugs. Some people choose homosexuality; others focus on the origin debate.


Then there's pornography. In some way or another it relates to the above issues.


Sex doesn't have consequences. Children shouldn't get in the way of an act that was meant solely for the pleasure of those involved. In fact, children are a mistake. [Abortion]

It is addictive and we try to label it as something that helps release tension. Even the strongest fighter with the most resolve can fall if they put their trust in their own strength. [Drugs]

It encourages sex without discrimination towards gender through objectification of the human body. [Homosexuality][Belief in random mutations through natural selection encourages objectification and vice versa]

Here is the disturbing information that can be spread. It is not explicit or obscene; the numbers do the talking.




Every second - $3,075.64 is being spent on pornography
Every second - 28,258 Internet users are viewing pornography
Every second - 372 Internet users are typing adult search terms into search engines
Every 39 minutes: a new pornographic video is being created in the United States


Internet Pornography Statistics

Pornographic websites
4.2 million (12% of total websites)

Pornographic pages
420 million

Daily pornographic search engine requests
68 million (25% of total search engine requests)

Daily pornographic emails
2.5 billion (8% of total emails)

Internet users who view porn
42.7%

Received unwanted exposure to sexual material
34%

Average daily pornographic emails/user
4.5 per Internet user

Monthly Pornographic downloads (Peer-to-peer)
1.5 billion (35% of all downloads)

Daily Gnutella "child pornography" requests
116,000

Websites offering illegal child pornography
100,000

Sexual solicitations of youth made in chat rooms
89%

Youths who received sexual solicitation
1 in 7 (down from 2003 stat of 1 in 3)

Worldwide visitors to pornographic web sites
72 million visitors to pornography every month

Internet Pornography Sales
$4.9 billion



Children Internet Pornography Statistics

Average age of first Internet exposure to pornography
11 years old

Largest consumer of Internet pornography
35 - 49 age group

15-17 year olds having multiple hard-core exposures
80%

8-16 year olds having viewed porn online
90% (most while doing homework)

7-17 year olds who would freely give out home address
29%

7-17 year olds who would freely give out email address
14%

Children's character names linked to thousands of porn links
26 (Including Pokemon and Action Man)


Adult Internet Pornography Statistics

Men admitting to accessing pornography at work
20%

US adults who regularly visit Internet pornography websites
40 million

Promise Keeper men who viewed pornography in last week
53%

Christians who said pornography is a major problem in the home
47%

Adults admitting to Internet sexual addiction
10%

Breakdown of male/female visitors to pornography sites
72% male - 28% female

Country Porn Pages

United States
244,661,900

Germany
10,030,200

United Kingdom
8,506,800

Australia
5,655,800

Japan
2,700,800

The Netherlands
1,883,800

Russia
1,080,600

Poland
1,049,600

Spain
852,800



US Hardcore Pornography Titles Released

Year: 1988
#of Titles: 1,300

1989
1,350

1990
1,340

1991
1,505

1992
2,200

1993
2,400

1994
3,200

1995
5,700

1996
8,000

1997
8,000

1998
9,200

1999
10,300

2000
11,500

2001
10,900

2002
11,700

2003
11,400

2004
12,000

2005
13,588

There are 525,600 minutes in a year. 525,600/13,588 = 38.68 minutes per video.


Sources:Statistics are compiled from the credible sources mentioned. In reality, statistics are hard to ascertain and may be estimated by local and regional worldwide sources.ABC, Associated Press, AsiaMedia, AVN, BBC, CATW, U.S. Census, Central Intelligence Agency, China Daily, Chosen.com, Comscore Media Metrix, Crimes Against Children, Eros, Forbes, Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Free Speech Coalition, Google, Harris Interactive, Hitwise, Hoover's, Japan Inc., Japan Review, Juniper Research, Kagan Research, ICMEC, Jan LaRue, The Miami Herald, MSN, Nielsen/NetRatings, The New York Times, Nordic Institute, PhysOrg.com, PornStudies, Pravda, Sarmatian Review, SEC filings, Secure Computing Corp., SMH, TopTenREVIEWS, Trellian, WICAT, Yahoo!, XBIZ


* At 13.3 billion, the 2006 revenues of the sex and porn industry in the U.S. are bigger than the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball combined. Worldwide sex industry sales for 2006 are reported to be 97 billion. To put this in perspective, Microsoft, who sells the operating system used on most of the computers in the world (in addition to other software) reported sales of 44.8 billion in 2006. Internet Filter Review

* A 2000 MSNBC.com survey found that as many as 80 percent of visitors to sex sites were spending so much time tracking down erotica on the computer that they were putting their real-life relationships and/or jobs at risk. "Until they discovered cybersex, most of these people had no problems with sexual addition", according to the survey’s author, Al Cooper, a sex therapist at the San Jose Marital Services and Sexuality Center in San Jose, Calif.

Hollywood currently releases 11,000 adult movies per year – more than 20 times the mainstream movie production. LA Times Magazine, 2002.

* "Last year, Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, pulled in $50 million from adult programming. All the nation's top cable operators, from Time Warner to Cablevision, distribute sexually explicit material to their subscribers. But you won't read about it in their annual reports. Same with satellite providers like EchoStar and DirecTV, which is owned by Hughes Technology, a subsidiary of General Motors. How much does DirecTV make off of adult product? “They don't break the number out. But I would guess they'd probably get a couple hundred million, maybe as much as $500 million, off of adult entertainment, in a broad sense,” says Dennis McAlpine, a partner in McAlpine Associates, who has tracked the entertainment industry for over two decades. “I would think it's probably more than what their overall profit is. The other areas are losing money. That's making money.” Then there are the big hotel chains: Hilton, Marriot, Hyatt, Sheraton and Holiday Inn, which all offer adult films on in-room pay-per-view television systems. And they are purchased by a whopping 50 percent of their guests, accounting for nearly 70 percent of their in-room profits. One hotel owner said, "We have to have it, our guests demand it.” From a CBS News Special Report, November 2003

* “Most girls who enter the porn industry do one video and quit. The experience is so painful, horrifying, embarrassing, humiliating for them that they never do it again.” Luke Ford, quoted by CBS News

* 42 percent of surveyed adults indicated that their partner’s use of pornography made them feel insecure. Marriage Related Research, Mark A. Yarhouse, Psy.D. Christian Counseling Today, 2004 Vol. 12 No. 1.

* 41 percent of surveyed adults admitted they felt less attractive due to their partner’s pornography use. Marriage Related Research, Mark A. Yarhouse, Psy.D. Christian Counseling Today, 2004 Vol. 12 No. 1.

In March 2005 Christianity Today published the results of a study called “Christians and Sex” in their Leadership Journal. 680 pastors and 1,972 laypersons were surveyed, with the following results:
* 44% of churchgoers want to hear more scriptural teaching from their pastors on the subject of sex.
* 22% of pastors feel they should spend more time on the topic.
* 85% of pastors say they speak about sexual issues once a year, while 63% of churchgoers say their pastors do so. Among those churchgoers who say they want their pastors to preach more about sexual issues, 47% say their pastor speaks about it once a year, an even bigger difference of opinion. A CTI analyst was quoted saying "Perhaps this desire for more biblical exposition on sexual issues exists because pastors are not speaking forcefully or clearly enough, while exposure to sexual images and messages in today's media is ever more heightened."
* 57% of pastors say that addiction to pornography is the most sexually damaging issue to their congregation.

Meanwhile, 74 percent of pornography sites display free teaser images; 66 percent do not include a warning of adult images. And only three percent require adult verification.
MSNBC: Scarborough Country

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