Did you know?
The multi-billion-dollar pornography industry is using the Internet to tap into a new market – unashamedly, the sanctity of American homes. There are 4.2 million pornographic websites. That equals roughly 12% of all websites in the world.

80% of 15-17 year olds have had multiple hard-core exposures.

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

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

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

26 Childrens' character names (Including Pokeman and Action Man) are linked to thousands of porn links.

The average age of first Internet exposure to pornography is 11 years old.

One in five children ages 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation over the Internet.

70% of sexual advances over the Internet happened while youngsters were on a home computer.

A survey of 600 households conducted by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children found that 20% of parents do not know any of their children’s Internet passwords, instant messaging nicknames or email addresses.

Incidents of child sexual exploitation have risen from 4,573 in 1998 to 112,083 in 2004, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

96% of kids have gone online; 74% having access at home and 61% use the Internet on a typical day.

Twenty percent of youths received sexual solicitations. Eighty-nine percent of sexual solicitations of youths were made in chat rooms.

The report compiled for the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that nearly nine out of 10 young people, ages 12 through 17, have online access — up from about three-quarters of young people in 2000.

Older teen girls who were surveyed, ages 15 to 17, are among the most intense users of the Internet and cell phones, including text messaging.

One in four children who use the Internet are exposed to unwanted sexual material.

21% of teens say they have looked at something on the Internet that they wouldn’t want their parents to know.

Adults and Internet Pornography

80% of 15-17 year olds have had multiple hard-core exposures.

40 million US adults regularly visit Internet pornography websites.

53% Promise Keeper men viewed pornography last week.

47% of Christians say pornography is a major problem in the home.

10% of adults admit to having an Internet sexual addiction.

Of visitors to pornography sites, 72% are male and 28% are female.

At least 20,000 American adults visit Internet sex sites at least 11 hours per week

75.5% of surveyed adults said it was okay to visit an adult web site, while 79.7% said it was okay for a significant other to reply to an unsolicited instant message or chat with a stranger of the opposite sex.

Women and Pornography

80% of 15-17 year olds have had multiple hard-core exposures.

70% of women keep their cyber activities secret.

17% of all women struggle with pornography addiction.

Women, far more than men, are likely to act out their behaviors in real life, such as having multiple partners, casual sex, or affairs.

Women favor chat rooms 2X more than men.

1 of 3 visitors to all adult web sites is female.

9.4 million women access adult web sites each month.

Women admitting to accessing pornography at work 13%

34% of churchgoing women said they have intentionally visited porn websites online.

Nearly 1.4 million Americans are stalked online each year (4 out of 5 are women.)

Pornography in the workplace

More than 75% of people at work have accidentally visited a pornographic website, and 15% have visited such sites more than 10 times.

63% of employees are concerned about the ease of access to objectionable content at work.

20% of men and 13% of women admitted to accessing pornography at work.

And There’s More

Approximately 40 million people in the United States are sexually involved with the Internet.

2.5 billion emails per day are pornographic.

Sex is the number 1 topic searched on the Internet.

Out of 81 pastors surveyed (74 males 7 female), 98% were exposed to porn; 43% intentionally accessed a sexually explicit website.

At least 20,000 American adults visit Internet sex sites at least 11 hours per week.

The most common ways people have accidentally reached pornographic content on the Web are pop-up windows (55%), misrepresented links (52%), misspelled URLs (48%) and auto links within emails (23%).

15 % of online porn habitués develop sexual behavior that disrupts their lives.

According to Datamonitor, over half of all spending on the Internet is related to sexual activity. Each day 30 million people log on to pornographic Web sites.

Here are some interesting Internet Pornography Statistics

Reports by Third Way and other reporting agencies made a number of findings, including:

Online pornography is proliferating at an alarming rate — from 14 million web pages in 1998 to 420 million today.

Online porn is big business. Its $12 billion in annual revenues equals that of the three major television networks combined.

Despite the availability of foolproof age verification systems, children have easy access to pornography online.

97% of Internet pornography sites now run basically on an honor system — if a child simply asserts that they are over 18, they get access to the sites.

The largest group of consumers of online pornography is kids ages 12-17.

The average age at which children are first exposed to porn online is 11 years old.

Elements of the online pornography industry are directly targeting children, using meta-tagging with words like “Santa Claus,” “Disneyland” and “Teletubbies” to draw kids to their websites after searching on those terms.

Many online pornographers earn money by the page-view, making it highly lucrative to attract all types of viewers, including children.

Daily pornographic search engine requests for pornography total about 68 million per day, or about 25% of all requests.

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

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

Websites offering illegal child pornography - 100 thousand.