Here are some alarming pornography statistics (references below list):

1.   Regular users of pornography are more likely to have sexually callous attitudes and accept the rape myth (that when a woman says "no," she means "yes."

2.   Areas with pornography outlets and sexually oriented businesses experience significantly higher sexual offenses and property crimes than areas without such businesses.

3.   Sales of sexually explicit magazines (such as Hustler and Playboy) in the fifty states correlate with state rape rates . After controlling for other factors, such as the percentage of young males in each state, a positive relationship remained. Alaska ranked first in magazine sales and first in rape. Nevada was second on both measures.  

4. The U.S. Customs Service estimates that there are more than 100,000 websites offering child pornography (which are illegal) worldwide.

5.   Hollywood currently releases 11,000 adult movies per year - more than 20 times the mainstream movie production. 

6.   Most girls who enter the porn industry do one video and quit. The experience is so painful, horrifying, embarrassing, humiliating for them that they never do it again."

7.   In December of 2000, the National Coalition to Protect Children and Families surveyed 5 Christian Campuses to see how the next generation of believers was doing with sexual purity: 48% of males admitted to current porn use , 68% of males said they intentionally viewed a sexually explicit site at the school.

8.   Out of 81 pastors surveyed (74 males 7 female), 98% had been exposed to porn; 43% intentionally accessed a sexually explicit website.

9.   34 percent of female readers of Today's Christian Woman's online newsletter admitted to intentionally accessing Internet porn in a recent poll.

10.   2.5 billion emails per day are pornographic..

11.   Sex is the number 1 topic searched on the Internet.

12.   82 percent of adult Americans surveyed in March 2004 said that the Federal laws against Internet obscenity should be vigorously enforced.  

13. Incidents of child sexual exploitation have risen from 4,573 in 1998 to 112,083 in 2004 should be vigorously enforced.”

14. The largest consumer of Internet pornography is the 12-17 age group.

15. Median age for the first use of pornography: boys: 11-13 girls: 12-14

16. One out of every six women grapples with addiction to pornography.

17. 345% increase in child pornography sites between 2/2001-7/2001

18. 9 in 10 kids 8-16 yrs. have viewed porn online, mostly accidentally while doing homework

19. 89% of sexual solicitations of youth were made in either chat rooms or Instant Messages

20. 1 in 5 youths received sexual solicitation or approach in last year

21. 51% of pastors admit that looking at internet pornography is their biggest temptation.

22. Research also shows that heavy exposure to media sex is associated with an increased perception of the frequency of sexual activity in the real world. As a result, television may function as a kind of "super-peer," normalizing these behaviors and, thus, encouraging them among teenagers.

23. An estimated 325,000 U.S. children age 17 or younger are prostitutes, performers in pornographic videos or have otherwise fallen victim to "commercial sexual exploitation," University of Pennsylvania researchers will report today.

24. Ted Bundy, an infamous serial killer, granted an interview to psychologist James Dobson just before he was executed on January 24, 1989. In that interview, he described the agony of his addiction to pornography. Bundy goes back to his roots, explaining the development of his compulsive behavior. He reveals his addiction to hard-core pornography and how it fueled the terrible crimes he committed.

1. Allen, M., Emmers, T., Gebhardt, L., & Giery, M.A. (1995). Exposure to pornography and acceptance of rape myths. Journal of Communication, 45 (1), 5-26; Saunders, R.M., & Naus, P.J. (1993). The impact of social content and audience factors on responses to sexually explicit videos. Journal of Sex Education and Therapy, 19 (2), 117-131.
2. National Law Center for Children and Families (1997). NLC summary of "SOB land use" studies.
3. Larry Baron and Murray Straus (1984)
4. Red Herring Magazine, 1/18/02
5. LA Times Magazine, 2002.
6. Luke Ford, quoted by CBS News
7. National Coalition to Protect Children and Families (2000)
8. National Coalition survey of pastors. Seattle. April 2000
9. Today's Christian Woman's
10. Family Safe Media. www.familysafemedia.com, 2003
11. Overdosing on Porn, Rebecca Hagelin. www.worldandi.com, March, 2004.
12. Americans STILL want federal obscenity laws enforced! The Morality in Media Newsletter, June, 2004
13. National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Reports of child exploitation up.  USA Today Snapshots, 17 February, 2005.
14. Internet   Pornography Statistics.  Internet Filter Review, 2004.
15. Your Children & Pornography: A guide for Parents, Tom Buford.  Tommera Press, 2001.
16. Internet Pornography and Loneliness: An Association? Vincent Cyrus Yoder, Thomas B. Virden III, and Kiran Amin.  Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, Volume 12.1, 2005.
17. N2H2, 8/01
18. (UK News Telegraph, NOP Research Group, 1/07/02)
19. (Pew Study reported in JAMA, 2001)
20. (NCMEC, 2000)
21. (Christianity Today, December 2002)
22. (AAP statement, January 2001)
23. (Memmott, Mark. "Sex Trade may lure 325,000 U.S. Kids; Report: Abused children, runaways typical victims." USA TODAY. 9/10/01)
24. (Focus on the Family, 1989)

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