http://www.protectkids.com/dangers/stats.htm# According to comScore Media Metrix, 71.9 million people visited adult sites in August 2005, reaching 42.7 percent of the Internet audience.Just 72 million and 43%? Wow; I'd've guessed higher.
# According to comScore Media Metrix, Internet users viewed over 15 billion pages of adult content in August 2005.Once again; just 15 billion? I'd've guessed higher.
# There are 1.3 million porn websites (N2H2, 9/23/03).
Just 1.3 million? I'd've.... you get the idea.
# More than 32 million unique individuals visited a porn site in Sept. of 2003. Nearly 22.8 million of them were male (71 percent), while 9.4 million adult site visitors were female (29 percent)
(Nielsen/Net Ratings, Sept. 2003).
# Pornographic web pages now top 260 million and growing at an unprecedented rate (N2H2, 9/23/03).
# N2H2's database contained 14 million identified pages of pornography in 1998, so the growth to 260 million represents an almost 20-fold increase in just five years (N2H2, 9/23/03).
# The cybersex industry generates approximately $1 billion annually and is expected to grow to $5-7 billion over the next 5 years, barring unforeseen change (National Research Council Report, 2002).
# The total porn industry - estimates from $4 billion to $10 billion (National Research Council Report, 2002).
# The two largest individual buyers of bandwidth are U.S. firms in the adult online industry (National Research Council Report, 3-1, 2002).
# 40,000 expired domain names were porn-napped
(National Research Council).