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Internet Pornography statistics become
outdated very quickly, especially in the Internet environment where numbers
change daily. The following pornography statistics are current as of 2003. These
statistics have been derived from a number of different reputable sources
including Google, WordTracker, PBS, MSNBC, NRC, and Alexa research.
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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 |
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Porn revenue is larger than all combined
revenues of all professional football, baseball and basketball
franchises. |
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US porn revenue exceeds the combined revenues
of ABC, CBS, and NBC (6.2 billion) |
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Pornographic websites |
4.2 million (12% of total websites) |
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Pornographic pages |
372 million |
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Daily pornographic search engine requests |
68 million (25% of total search engine
requests) |
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Daily pornographic emails |
2.5 billion (8% of total emails) |
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Average daily pornographic emails/user |
4.5 per internet user |
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Monthly Pornographic downloads (Peer-to-peer) |
1.5 billion (35% of all downloads) |
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Worldwide visitors to pornographic web sites |
72 million annually | |
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Men admitting to accessing pornography at work |
20% |
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Women admitting to accessing pornography at work |
13% |
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US adults who regularly visit Internet pornography
websites |
40 million |
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Adults admitting to Internet sexual addiction |
10% |
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Breakdown of male/female visitors to pornography
sites |
72% male - 28% female | |
