Pornography ~ Statistics
Among Christians
“In a poll of 1,000 respondents, 50 percent of Christian men and 20 percent of Christian women were found to be addicted to pornography.” [CFL NOTE: Be careful interpreting the word “addicted.” In polls and stats, it can mean “totally given over to” or “viewed once in the last 6 months.” In other words, not all classified as “addicted” may be truly “addicted.”]
51% of pastors say cyberporn is a possible temptation. 37% say it is a current struggle (Christianity Today, Leadership Survey, December 2001).
4 in 10 pastors have visited a porn site (Christianity Today, Leadership Survey, December 2001).
17.8% of all "born again" Christian adults (in America) have visited sexually-oriented Websites (Zogby survey conducted for Focus on the Family, 2000).
34% of readers of Today's Christian Woman's online newsletter admitted to intentionally accessing Internet porn
A 2003 survey from Internet Filter Review reported that 47 percent of Christians admit pornography is a major problem in their homes.
An internet survey conducted by Rick Warren of Saddleback Church in 2002 found 30 percent of 6,000 pastors had viewed internet porn in the last 30 days.
A Christianity Today Leadership Survey in 2001 reported 37 percent of pastors have viewed internet porn.
Family Safe Media reports 53 percent of men belonging to the Christian organization Promise Keepers visit porn sites every week.
One in seven calls to Focus on the Family’s Pastoral Care Hotline is related to internet pornography.
Today’s Christian Woman in 2003 found that one in six women, including Christians, struggles with pornography addiction.
Sources/more info
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070605/porn-addiction-flooding-culture-church/index.html
http://www.horizonz.com/whatabout.htm
http://www.kyria.com/topics/hottopics/womensissues/5.58.html
http://www.worldmag.com/articles/10555
In General
Every second
$3,075.64 is being spent on pornography
28,258 internet users are viewing pornography
372 internet users are typing adult search terms into search engines
Every 39 minutes a new pornographic video is being created in the U.S.
The pornography industry has larger revenues than Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Apple and Netflix combined. 2006 Worldwide Pornography Revenues ballooned to $97.06 billion.
$3,630,000,000 was spent by Americans in 2006 on pornographic video sales and rentals
$2,640,000,000 was spent by Americans in 2006 on internet pornography
42,000,000 websites (12% of all websites) contain pornography
“The majority of Internet pornography users appear to do so on a more recreational basis with 43% spending less than one hour per week and 6-10% using more compulsively, spending six hours or more per week engaged in Internet pornography” (Cooper, Putnam, Plancho, & Boies, 1999; Cooper, Morahan-Martin, Mathy, & Maheu, 2002; Weisskirch & Murphy, 2004).
The following countries have banned pornography: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, Bahrain, Egypt, UAE, Kuwait, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Kenya, India, Cuba, China [Note that China, however, is still the largest consumer of porn - $27,400,000,000 spent in 2006]
Sources/more info
http://internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html, July 13, 2010)
http://www.safefamilies.org/sfStats.php
http://www.blazinggrace.org/cms/bg/pornstats
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Inter...ntext+of+external+and+internal...-a0225934563
The follow stats were provided by Dr. John Splinter, (formerly Missouri Director of The National Coalition for the Protection of Children and Families, now the founder of the Family Legacy Institute.)
Adolescents today receive approximately 14,000 sexualized messages each year
26% of girls 11 – 19 in America have at least one STD; most don’t know they’re carriers
Today there are 25 – 30 different STDs, some of which are incurable, some fatal
Today’s kids believe that oral sex does not count as being sexually active
Half of all STD infections occur in people under 25 years of age
American kids today are the world’s most sexually active kids, topping French, Spanish & Italian kids in a) pregnancies; b) abortions; c) STDs; d) self-reporting of frequencies
300,000 children ages 9 – 19 are held captive for use in sexual slavery in the U.S.A.
The porn industry now earns $14 billion per year (more than combined revenues of ABC, NBC, and CBS. Or, more than combined revenues of NFL, NBA, and MLB).
The porn industry now targets kids 7 – 11, to create lifetime addicted users
Porn has been found to be more addictive and harder to break than addiction to cocaine
The average child today first sees porn at age 11 (one study found it to be 8)
10 years ago there were an estimated 17 million porn pages on the net; today, 420 million
20% of them involve child porn
80% of primetime TV now deals with overtly sexual themes
78% of new cases of genital herpes are caused by a virus found chiefly in the mouths of 16-21 year olds
25% of girls and 30% of boys have sex by age 15
21% of 9th graders have slept with four or more partners
50% of 17-year-olds have had sex
80% of teens have sex by age 19
55% of teens ages 13-19 have engaged in oral sex