Porn - Are you a statistic?

[Omega]

* Approximately 40 million people in the United States are sexually involved with the Internet
Exposing Porn: Science, Religion, and the New Addiction , Paul Strand. Christian Broadcasting Network, 2004.
* One in five children ages 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation over the Internet
The Web's Dark Secret . Newsweek, 19 March, 2001.
* Three million of the visitors to adult websites in September 2000 were age 17 or younger
NetValue Report on Minors Online . Business Wire, 19 December, 2000.
* One in four children who use the Internet are exposed to unwanted sexual material
Your Children & Pornography: A guide for Parents , Tom Buford. Tommera Press, 2001.
* 2.5 billion emails per day are pornographic
Pornography Statistics 2003 . Family Safe Media. www.familysafemedia.com, 2003.
* 25 percent of all search engine requests are pornography related
Internet Pornography Statistics: 2003 , David C. Bissette, Psy.D. www.healthymind.com, 2004.
* Sex sites on the Web generate at least $1 billion per year in revenu
Wall Street Meets Pornography . New York Times, 23 October, 2000.
* 72 million Internet users visit pornography web sites per year
Pornography Statistics 2003 . Internet Filter Review. www.internetfilterreview.com, 2003.
* 94 percent of Americans believe a ban on Internet pornography should be legal
Statistics on Internet Pornography . www.levelbest.com.
* 79 percent of Americans say the government should do something about the potential for dangerous strangers to make contact with children
Survey Shows Widespread Enthusiasm for High Technology . NPR Online. http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/poll/technology/, 1999.
* One in 17 children ages 10-17 were threatened or harassed over the Internet in 2000
Report Statistical Highlights . National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Crimes Against Children, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2000.
* Nearly 1.4 million Americans are stalked online each year (4 out of 5 are women)
Stalkers Online , Andrea Rock. Ladies Home Journal, March 2000.
* Sex is the number 1 topic searched on the Internet
Overdosing on Porn , Rebecca Hagelin. www.worldandi.com, March, 2004.
* Americans spend $10 billion per year on pornography
Overdosing on Porn , Rebecca Hagelin. www.worldandi.com, March, 2004.
* There are 800 million rentals each year of adult videos and DVDs
Overdosing on Porn , Rebecca Hagelin. www.worldandi.com, March, 2004.
* 11,000 adult movies are produced each year
Overdosing on Porn , Rebecca Hagelin. www.worldandi.com, March, 2004.
* For the 20-year-old kid, porn stars have kind of replaced what models used to represent.
How One Man Unleashed the Porn Plague , Andy Butcher. Charisma Magazine, November 2003.
* The Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, a health-care clinic for porn workers, carries out 600 AIDS and STD tests per month
How One man Unleashed the porn Plague , Andy Butcher. Charisma Magazine, November 2003.
* 34 percent of churchgoing women said they have intentionally visited porn websites online
Internet porn a guy thing? Not really, online rating service says , Mark O'Keefe. The Charlotte Observer.
* Less than 10% of sexual solicitations and only 3% of unwanted exposure on the Internet were reported to authorities
Online Victimization: A Report on the Nation's Youth . National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Crimes Against Children, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2000.
* More than 30% of 1,500 surveyed companies have terminated employees for inappropriate use of the Internet, while only 37.5% of companies use filtering software
Websense Incorporated and The Center for Internet Studies, 2000.
* 39 million homes receive the adult channels in scrambled form, while the number of children with potential exposure to such images is about 29 million
Court looks at adult channel Michael Kirkland. UPF Financial Wire, 30 November, 1999.
* Cable companies brought in revenue of $177 million from sexually explicit pay-per-view programming
No Big Surge in Sex Programs is Expected From Cable Ruling , Jim Rutenberg. The New York Times, 24 May, 2000.
* 70 percent of sexual advances over the Internet happened while youngsters were on a home computer
One in Five Kids Has Been Propositioned for Cybersex . Legal Facts. Vol. 2, No. 3, 2000.
* 21 percent of teens say they have looked at something on the Internet that they wouldn't want their parents to know
A World of Their Own . Newsweek, 8 May 2000.
* Out of 81 pastors surveyed (74 males 7 female), 98% were exposed to porn; 43% intentionally accessed a sexually explicit website
National Coalition survey of pastors. Seattle. April 2000.
* Porn site architects were among the first to perfect full-streaming video and audio on the Web and among the first to persuade apprehensive consumers to divulge credit card numbers to someone unknown to them on the Internet, which developed e-commerce
The Architects of Porn . VARBusiness, 28 April 2000.
* 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.
Ads target online victimization of children . USA Today, 20 May 2004.
* Only 5% of parents recognized the acronym POS (parent over shoulder) and only 1% could identify WTGP (want to go private?), both of which are used frequently by teens when instant messaging
Ads target online victimization of children . USA Today, 20 May 2004.
* 82 percent of adult Americans surveyed in March 2004 said that the Federal laws against Internet obscenity should be vigorously enforced.
Americans STILL want federal obscenity laws enforced! The Morality in Media Newsletter, June, 2004.
* 38 percent of adults believe it is "morally acceptable" to look at pictures of nudity or explicit sexual behavior
Morality Continues to Decay . Barna Research Group, 3 November, 2003.
* 59 percent of adults believe it is "morally acceptable" to have sexual thoughts or fantasies
Morality Continues to Decay . Barna Research Group, 3 November, 2003.
* 38 percent of adults believe there is nothing wrong with pornography use
Morality Continues to Decay . Barna Research Group, 3 November, 2003.
* Condom use in the adult-film industry rose from 17% to 23% after an outbreak of HIV in March 2004; the percentage has since declined again to 17.5%
Sex-Film Industry Threatened With Condom Requirement , Nick Madigan. The New York Times, 24 August, 2004.
* At least 20,000 American adults visit Internet sex sites at least 11 hours per week
Victims of Pornography Month Should Not Exist , Jan Larue. Christian Counseling Today, 2003 Vol. 11 No. 3.
* 42 percent of surveyed adults indicated that their partner's use of pornography made them feel insecure
Marriage Related Research , Mark A. Yarhouse, Psy.D. Christian Counseling Today, 2004 Vol. 12 No. 1.
* 41 percent of surveyed adults admitted they felt less attractive due to their partner's pornography use
Marriage Related Research , Mark A. Yarhouse, Psy.D. Christian Counseling Today, 2004 Vol. 12 No. 1.
* 30 percent of surveyed adults said their partner's use of pornography made them feel more like a sexual object
Marriage Related Research , Mark A. Yarhouse, Psy.D. Christian Counseling Today, 2004 Vol. 12 No. 1.
* "A wave of confessionals and self-help guides written by current or former stars of pornographic films is flooding bookstores this year, accompanied by erotic novels, racy sexual-instruction guides, histories of sexual particulars and photographic treatments of the world of pornography."
Sex, Sex, Sex: Up Front in Bookstores Near You , Edward Wyatt. The New York Times, 24 August, 2004.
* More than 75% of people at work have accidentally visited a pornographic website, and 15% have visited such sites more than 10 times
Fifty Percent of Workers Spend Nine days a Year on Personal Surfing at Work . Cerberian Inc. and SonicWALL, 20 July 2004.
* 63 percent of employees are concerned about the ease of access to objectionable content at work
Fifty Percent of Workers Spend Nine days a Year on Personal Surfing at Work . Cerberian Inc. and SonicWALL, 20 July 2004.
* 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%)
Fifty Percent of Workers Spend Nine days a Year on Personal Surfing at Work . Cerberian Inc. and SonicWALL, 20 July 2004.
* For every 10 men in church, 5 are struggling with pornography
The Call to Biblical Manhood . Man in the Mirror, 6 July, 2004.
* While 77% of surveyed people said they thought their computers were well-protected, 4 out of 5 had spyware or adware programs running on their computers
Home PCs not so safe? CNN Money, 25 October, 2004. http://money.com/2004/10/25/technolo...ex.htm?cnn=yes
* 15 percent of online porn habits develop sexual behavior that disrupts their lives
The Porn Factor , Pamela Paul. www.time.com. 19 January, 2004.
* The more pornography men watch, the more likely they are to describe women in sexualized terms and categorize women in traditional gender roles
The Porn Factor , Pamela Paul. www.time.com. 19 January, 2004.
* 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

Where do you fit into these statistics if at all? Would you consider it a potential addiction for yourself or do you think you have 100% control of yourself?

[Kiwi]

Wow

[Ihsiin]

There's a documentary on four tonight about some guy who killed a bunch of women because of porn. They've called it (rather cunningly) "Natural Porn Killer". It’s on at ten something.

[Hisham]

Pshhh...

I can stop watching it anytime I wanna...

No really, I can.

[frosty]

America is addicted to porn

[Kay B]

The whole world is addicted to porn.....


















In my bedroom anyways

[OnBake Platinum]

If only I had a decent connection...

[Fats]

In all honesty, I hate Porn. Really.

[D3adcell]

What is porn?

[Phoenix]

In all honesty, I hate Porn. Really.

[woundingchaney]

Originally Posted by Fats

In all honesty, I hate Porn. Really.

In all honesty I see nothing wrong with Porn, me and my gf love it.

[Fats]

That's fair enough, to each their own. I just don't find it as appealing as it once was.

[woundingchaney]

Originally Posted by Fats

That's fair enough, to each their own. I just don't find it as appealing as it once was.

LOL


I will always find it appealing and appetizing.

[Hisham]

Originally Posted by Fats

That's fair enough, to each their own. I just don't find it as appealing as it once was.

Translation: Seeing such well endowed men banging chicks that are way out of my league makes me feel sad...






























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[Zac]

I have received a sexual solicitation over the Internet

[Phoenix]

Then there's the whole "it's gross and among the cheapest thrills possible" part.

[Eman]

Im probaly addicted but shit it feels good to bust

Originally Posted by Zac

I have received a sexual solicitation over the Internet

from a old man? or young hot chic?

[Zac]

from a member of this very forum

[Markopolo356]

http://forporn.ytmnsfw.com/
than this really IS real

[Bloodman]

lol

I think most of us look at porn.