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More statistics about sex addiction and pornography

  • The sex industry takes in about $12 billion per year in the US market.  Of that, nearly $3 billion is spent on Internet pornography. 
  • Pornographic web pages now top 260 million on over 1.3 million websites (N2H2, 9/23/03)
  • Only 23% of parents have rules about what their kids can do on the computer (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Study, March 2005)
  • One in five children who use computer chat rooms has been approached over the Internet by pedophiles. (Detective Chief Superintendent Ackerman, telegraph.co.uk, Jan. '05)
 

Children, Predators, and Child Pornography

  • Child pornography has become a $3 billion annual industry (Ropelato, Jerry. Top Ten Reviews. Top Ten Reviews, Inc. 5 Dec. 2005)
  • More than 20,000 images of child pornography are posted on the Internet every week (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 10/8/03)
  • 89% of sexual solicitations were made in either chat rooms or Instant Messages. (Pew Study reported in JAMA, 2001)
  • 13 million youth use Instant Messaging. (Pew Study reported in JAMA, 6/01)
  • 1 in 5 received sexual solicitation or approach in last year. (Online Victimization, NCMEC, June 2000)
  • 1 in 33 received AGGRESSIVE sexual solicitation (asked to meet, called them via phone, sent mail, money or gifts).(Online Victimization, NCMEC, June 2000)
  • 25% of youth who received sexual solicitation told a parent. (Online Victimization, NCMEC, June 2000)
  • 1 in 4 kids participate in Real Time Chat. (FamilyPC Survey, 2000)
  • More statistics about youth and sex online
 

Other shocking statistics

  • Adult content on mobile telephones and other portable devices is anticipated to hit $1 billion in worldwide revenues during 2005. (Juniper Research, "Adult to Mobile: Personal Services," February 2005)
  • The adult-film industry is bigger than ever, making some 6,000 movies a year and grossing more than $4 billion - roughly as much as the National Football League (New York Post, Russell Scott Smith, 9/25/03).
  • According to comScore Media Metrix, 71.9 million people visited adult sites in August 2005, reaching 42.7 percent of the Internet audience.
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