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Two in five Internet users visited an adult site in August of 2005
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63.4 million unique visitors to adult websites in December of 2005, reaching 37.2% of the Internet audience
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| MSNBC/Stanford/Duquesne Study, 2000
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Men prefer visual erotica twice as much as women
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Women favor chat rooms twice as much as men
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Women had slightly lower rate of sexually compulsive Internet behavior
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70% keep their habit a secret
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| Revealing Studies
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In 2001, in a study of 7037 adults, two thirds of those who visit websites with sexual content, say their Internet activities haven't affected their level of sexual activity with their partners, though 75% report masturbating while on line.
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At a 2003 meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, two thirds of the 350 divorce lawyers who attended said the Internet played a significant role in the divorces in the past year, with excessive interest in online porn contributing to more than half such cases. Pornography had an almost non-existent role in divorce just nine or ten years ago.
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| Kaiser Family Foundation 2001 poll
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70% of 15-17 year olds said they accidentally came across pornography on line.
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59% of 15-24 year olds said they believe seeing porn on the Internet encourages young people to have sex before they are ready.
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49% said it promotes bad attitudes toward women and encourages viewers to think unprotected sex is O.K.
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| N2H2/Secure Computing Corp.
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As of July 2003, there were 260 million pages of porn online, an increase of 1800% since 1998. Porn amounts to about 7% of the 3.3 billion pages indexed by Google.
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By the end of 2004, there were 420 million pages of pornography, and it is believed that the majority of these websites are owned by less than 50 companies.
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| Google, Nielsen/NetRatings
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Internet users who access adult websites spend an average of 73 min. per month there but that doesn't include time spent on amateur porn sites.
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| Adams Media Research
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Americans rent upwards of 800 million porn videos and DVD's a year compared with 3.6 billion non porn videos. Nearly one in five rentals is a porn flick.
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| Video News
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Hollywood produces 400 feature films a year. The porn industry churns out 11,000. Adult
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| National Opinion Research Letter
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One is 4 American adults surveyed in 2002 admitted to seeing an x-rated movie in the last year.
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| Other Interesting Facts
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The Viagra market is a billion dollar market. 50% of Viagra users do not renew their prescription.
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The Internet pornography industry generates $12 billion dollars in annual revenue -- larger than the combined annual revenues of ABC, NBC, and CBS
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