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Pornography Internet Usage Statistics

 
Statistic Citation

Cyberporn earns between $366 million to over $1 billion. Over half of all spending on the internet is related to sexual activity

Griffiths, 2001

70% of cyberporn viewing on the Internet occurs between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays.

20% of men and 12% of women are using their work computers for at least some portion of their online sexual activities.

About 6% of Internet users have concerns about their use of the Internet for sex.

A profile of very severe problems exists for 1% of users, virtually crippling their ability to function

40% of these extreme cases of dysfunction are women

200 sexual related web sites are added to the Internet every day.

Sex on the Internet constitutes the third largest economic sector on the web (software and computers are first and second)

Some of the greatest technological innovations on the web were developed by the sex industry (for example, video streaming)

20 to 30% of online users visit sites and engage in online sexual activities

20 million (and growing) people visit sexual sites each month

Cooper, 2000
Adult content sites are the fourth most visited category while at work (surpassed only by news/information/entertainment sites, search engines, and marketing / corporation information sites Leone & Beilsmith, 1999
Sex is the most frequently searched for topic on the internet Freeman-Longo & Blanchard, 1998
Online infidelity has accounted for a growing number of divorce cases according to the President of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Young, 2000

Estimates for the number of X-rated sites on the net range from 20,000 to 7 million

Forrester Research found that porn Web sites earned $1 billion in 1998 and will earn $1.5 billion in 1999

Every day, 30 million people log on to pornographic Web sites

"Sex on the Web," CNET.com, April 28, 1999

As of January 1999, there were almost 20,000 unique visitors per month on the top five pay porn Web sites, and there were almost 1 million unique visitors per month on the top five free porn Web sites

In November 1999, Nielson Net Ratings figures showed 12.5 million surfers visited porn sites in September from their homes, a 140% rise in traffic in just six months

Nearly 17 percent of Internet users have problems with sex on the Net

There are 100,000 Web sites dedicated to selling sex in some way - this does not include chat rooms, e-mail, or other forms of sexual contact on the Web.

Carnes, In the Shadows of the Net
The research company Relevant Knowledge found that 9.6 million users, (about 15% of Web users), logged on to the 10 most popuar cybersex sites during the month of April, 1998 alone Wired News, June 10, 1998
68% of addicted couples in which one or both had lost interest in relational sex. 52% of addicts had decreased interest in sex with their spouse, as did 34% of their partners Schneider, 2000
Almost 9 million people in the United States need intervention for their sexually compulsive use of cybersex. There are an additional 15 million who are using cybersex moderately and show beginning signs of sexual compulsivity. Cooper, Delmonico, and Burg

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