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Additional Statistics from Cybersex Research Project.
Milton S. Magness, D Min, MA, Psy, LPC, CSAT, CART

This project developed over a two and half year period after interviewing numerous self-identified sex addicts concerning the addictive nature of the internet. While those interviews are not part of the reported research, the magnitude problematic cybersex behavior discovered in those interviews suggested this project.

The purpose of the survey was to ascertain the scope of cybersex activity, get a profile of the kind of recovery activities the respondents were involved in and to get an estimation of the effectiveness of those activities. For the purposes of the survey, cybersex was defined as using the Internet to engage in sexually gratifying activities such as, looking at pictures, engaging in sexual chat, exchanging explicit sexual images or emails, “cybering” (i.e., sharing fantasies over the Internet which involved being sexual together while one or both people masturbate), etc. (Cooper, 2002).

* 655+ million Internet users with 190+ million in the US and Canada
* Sex still the most researched subject on the Internet
* 60 million unique visitors land on adult sites daily
* Top news sites like MSNBC.com and CNN.com receive 2.5 million unique hits a day.
* Contrast: there are individual adult sites that receive in excess of 4 million hits per day.
* There are about 300,000 adult web sites today.