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[2003 Porn Statistics]

 

Compiled by Matt Burt
*Sources: Google, WordTracker, PBS, MSNBC, NRC and Alexa research

 

Pornography Industry Statistics

Size of the industry

$57.0 billion world-wide - $12.0 billion US

    Adult videos

$20.0 billion

    Escort services

$11.0 billion

    Magazines

$ 7.5 billion

    Sex clubs

$ 5.0 billion

    Phone sex

$ 4.5 billion

    Cable/Pay per view

$ 2.5 billion

    Internet

$ 2.5 billion

    CD-Rom

$ 1.5 billion

    Novelties

$ 1.0 billion

    Other

$ 1.5 billion

Porn revenue is larger than the combined revenues of all professional football, baseball and basketball franchises.

U.S. porn revenue exceeds the combined revenues of ABC, CBS and NBC ($6.2-billion).

Child pornography generates $3 billion annually

Internet Porn Statistics

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)

Daily pornographic e-mails

2.5 billion (8% of total emails)

Average daily pornographic e-mails per user

4.5 per internet user

Monthly pornographic downloads (peer-to-peer)

1.5 billion (35% of all downloads)

Daily child pornography requests

116 thousand

Websites offering illegal child pornography

100 thousand

Percentage of men who visit pornography sites

72%

Percentage of women who visit pornography sites

28%

Worldwide visitors to pornographic web sites

72 million annually

 

 

Adult Internet Porn Statistics

Men admitting to accessing pornography at work

20%

Women admitting to accessing pornography at work

13%

US adults who regularly visit Internet pornography websites

40 million

Christians who say pornography is a major problem in the home

47%

Adults admitting to Internet sexual addiction

10%

   

 

 

 

 

 

 
   
     
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