divorce statistics and pornography as of 2005

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Divorce Statistics: Pornography

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Two in five Internet users visited an adult site in August of 2005 63.4 million unique visitors to adult websites in December of 2005, reaching 37.2% of the Internet audience MSNBC/Stanford/Duquesne Study, 2000 Men prefer visual erotica twice as much as women Women favor chat rooms twice as much as men Women had slightly lower rate of sexually compulsive Internet behavior 70% keep their habit a secret Revealing Studies In 2001, in a study of 7037 adults, two thirds of those who visit websites with sexual content, say their Internet activities haven't affected their level of sexual activity with their partners, though 75% report masturbating while on line. At a 2003 meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, two thirds of the 350 divorce lawyers who attended said the Internet played a significant role in the divorces in the past year, with excessive interest in online porn contributing to more than half such cases. Pornography had an almost non-existent role in divorce just nine or ten years ago. Kaiser Family Foundation 2001 poll 70% of 15-17 year olds said they accidentally came across pornography on line. 59% of 15-24 year olds said they believe seeing porn on the Internet encourages young people to have sex before they are ready. 49% said it promotes bad attitudes toward women and encourages viewers to think unprotected sex is O.K. N2H2/Secure Computing Corp. As of July 2003, there were 260 million pages of porn online, an increase of 1800% since 1998. Porn amounts to about 7% of the 3.3 billion pages indexed by Google. By the end of 2004, there were 420 million pages of pornography, and it is believed that the majority of these websites are owned by less than 50 companies. Google, Nielsen/NetRatings Internet users who access adult websites spend an average of 73 min. per month there but that doesn't include time spent on amateur porn sites. Adams Media Research Americans rent upwards of 800 million porn videos and DVD's a year compared with 3.6 billion non porn videos. Nearly one in five rentals is a porn flick. Video News Hollywood produces 400 feature films a year. The porn industry churns out 11,000. Adult National Opinion Research Letter One is 4 American adults surveyed in 2002 admitted to seeing an x-rated movie in the last year. Other Interesting Facts The Viagra market is a billion dollar market. 50% of Viagra users do not renew their prescription. The Internet pornography industry generates $12 billion dollars in annual revenue -- larger than the combined annual revenues of ABC, NBC, and CBS More Divorce Statistics »