(The following statistics are from http://www.internetfilterreview.com)

Internet Pornography statistics become outdated very quickly, especially in the Internet environment where numbers change daily.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.

Pornography Industry Statistics                Children's Internet Porn Statistics            Women and Pornography
Internet Porn Statistics                              Adult Internet Porn Statistics 

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

Porn revenue is larger than all combined revenues of all professional
football, baseball and basketball franchises.

US porn revenue exceeds the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, and NBC (6.2
billion)

Child pornography generates $3 billion annually

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Pornographic websites 4.2 million (12% of total websites)

Pornographic pages 372 million

Daily pornographic search engine requests 68 million (25% of total search
engine requests)

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

Average daily pornographic emails/user 4.5 per internet user

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

Daily Gnutella "child pornography" requests 116 thousand

Websites offering illegal child pornography 100 thousand

Sexual solicitations of youth made in chat rooms:  89%

Youths who received sexual solicitation:  20%

Worldwide visitors to pornographic web sites 72 million annually

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Average age of first Internet exposure to pornography is 11 years old

Largest consumer of Internet pornography12-17 age group

15-17 year olds having multiple hard-core exposures: 80%

8-16 year olds having viewed porn online:  90% (most while doing homework)

7-17 year olds who would freely give out home address:  29%

7-17 year olds who would freely give out email address:  14%

Childrens characters linked to thousands of porn links:  26 (including
Pokeman and Action Man)

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Men admitting to accessing pornography at work:  20%

Women admitting to accessing pornography at work:  13%

US adults who regularly visit Internet pornography websites:  40 million

Promise Keeper men who viewed pornography in last week:  53%

Christians who said pornography is a major problem in the home:  47%

Adults admitting to Internet sexual addiction:  10%

Breakdown of male/female visitors to pornography sites:  72% male - 28%
female

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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 two times more than men.

1 of 3 visitors to all adult web sites are women.

9.4 million women access adult web sites each month.

Women admitting to accessing pornography at work:  13%

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