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| Pornographic websites |
4.2 million (12% of total) |
| Daily pornographic search engine requests |
68 million (25% of total) |
| Daily pornographic e-mails |
2.5 billion |
| Average daily porn e-mails/user |
4.5 per Internet user |
| Monthly porn downloads (peer-to-peer) |
1.5 billion (35% of all downloads) |
Source: Top Ten Reviews, Inc., 2005
Additional Pornography Statistics
71.9 million people visited adult sites in August 2005, reaching 42.7 percent of the Internet audience (comScore Media Metrix)
Who Looks at Pornography? (These may or may not be sex addicts. Diagnosis of sex addiction and cybersex addiction should only be made by a qualified mental health care professional.)
| Men admitting to accessing porn at work |
20% |
| US adults who regularly visit porn websites |
40 million
(This means 17% of US adults are looking at Internet porn regularly!) |
| Christians who said porn is a major problem in the home |
47% |
| Promise Keeper men who viewed porn in last week* |
53%
(a result of surveys done of men who were leaving a Promise Keeper event) |
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*This certainly is not meant to be an indictment of this fine organization. Rather, this is a reminder that even Christian men who are committed to keeping their promises to God and their wives are not immune to the subtle but powerful lure of pornography.
Porn Viewing by Young People
The largest group of viewers of Internet porn is children between ages 12 and 17
(Family Safe Media, December 15, 2005)
The average age of first exposure to Internet porn is 11
(Family Safe Media, December 15, 2005)
More than 11 million teens regularly view porn online
(“Protecting Kids Online.” Editorial. The Washington Post, July 1, 2004)
Click here to view Dr. Magness' Cybersex Research Project Statistics.
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