• The Internet accounted for US $2.5 billion of the adult industry’s $14 billion in U.S. revenues in 2004.
  Dirty Downloads Ready to Go on iPods, Ron Harris, www.macnewsworld.com, 2005
• 70% of 18 to 24 year old men visit pornographic sites in a typical month. 66% of men in their 20s and 30s also report being regular users of pornography.
  First-person: the culture of pornography, R. Albert Mohler, Jr., Baptist Press, 28 December 2005.

Pornography and Children

• 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
  Reports of child exploitation up.  USA Today Snapshots, 17 February, 2005.

Pornography

• 23% of American adults believe “whether one likes it or not people should have full access to pornography under the Constitution’s First Amendment.”
  No Consensus Among American Public on the Effects of Pornography on Adults or Children or What Government Should Do About It, Harris Poll, 7 October 2005. www.harrisinteractive.com
• 40% of adults surveyed believe that pornography harms relationships between men and women.
  No Consensus Among American Public on the Effects of Pornography on Adults or Children or What Government Should Do About It, Harris Poll, 7 October 2005. www.harrisinteractive.com
• According to pastors, the 8 top sexual issues damaging to their congregation are: 57% pornography addiction, 34% sexually active never-married adults, 30% adultery of married adults, 28% sexually active teenagers, 16% sexual dissatisfaction, 14% unwed pregnancy, 13% sexually active previously married adults, and 9% sexual abuse.
  More Sex, Please.  Christianity Today International, Winter 2005.
• According to 2004 IFR research, U.S. porn revenue exceeds the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, and NBC (6.2 billion). Porn revenue is larger than all combined revenues of all professional football, baseball and basketball franchises. The pornography industry, according to conservative estimates, brings in $57 billion per year, of which the United States is responsible for $12 billion.
  Internet Pornography and Loneliness: An Association? Vincent Cyrus Yoder, Thomas B. Virden III, and Kiran Amin.  Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, Volume 12.1, 2005.
• One out of every six women grapples with addiction to pornography
  Internet Pornography and Loneliness: An Association? Vincent Cyrus Yoder, Thomas B. Virden III, and Kiran Amin.  Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, Volume 12.1, 2005.
• Playboy’s third quarter profit rose to $3.2 million from $1.9 million in 2005.
  Porn may be on the way for iPods, Rebecca Barr, www.azcentral.com, 2005