percentage of men in total pop. using porn?

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percentage of men in total pop. using porn?

Postby Starburst » Fri Mar 31, 2006 6:05 am

I've always been curious to know the percentage of men in the total population who are porn uses. I realize there may be no statistically foolproof way to get this information, but does anyone have any statistics?? :?: :roll:
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Postby gerry » Fri Mar 31, 2006 3:34 pm

The following from Alvin Cooper's (Stanford U) study of sex addiction

In a study in the May 1998 issue of Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, Cooper also found that more than 91 percent of Internet users spent less than 11 hours a week logging on to sexual sites. About 82 percent spent less than an hour doing so, "with very few negative repercussions," he says. (Full text of these research articles appears at http://www.sex-centre.com.)

Since this study includes women (chatroom "cybersex") one can guess that only about 15 or 16% of males computer users look at porn more than an hour per week. If this is true, it seems like good news, but i have no way of knowing and cannot surmise whether this is something men would lie about. But it doesn't seem to jive with the number of hits at porn sites. Yet other studies come up with very similar numbers.

I must wonder about what definition of porn is being used here or in any other survey, or what one you would want to employ. I can recall this man i met in nyc who said he was "addicted to porn" and yet he never used pictures of any kind---he created his own in his head. How does he fit this?
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Postby Starburst » Sat Apr 01, 2006 3:27 am

Yes, that number appears where too small. There was a poll on AOL, "have you used the Internet too search for porn?" and I believe around 35% of the members said yes. I voted "no" (one had to vote to get the results), but I have, both in terms of research and when I was younger with a high school friend who wanted to find nuddy pics for "fun." :roll:

Thus, one could conclude there was some honest, or not so honest exaggeration going on even when people WANT to be honest. Of course, this wasn't an-honest-to-goddess official survey.
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Postby oneangrygirl » Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:32 am

pamela paul commissioned a harris interactive poll for her book. the stats are in it.
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Postby gerry » Sun Apr 02, 2006 10:44 am

oag wrote:pamela paul commissioned a harris interactive poll for her book. the stats are in it.


According to these, 72 million persons intentionally visit online porn sites (each year). Of these, 24 million are women--so that leaves 48 million men. Another stat (same source) is that 40 million persons are actively involved at porn sites. So if you put these figures together, you have to assume that maybe 30 million men (maybe up to 33 million) are active online porn users. Leaving young boys out that means that about 30-33 out of 125 men use internet porn in some ongoing way. That's 25% of all men. (i don't know if this jives with the fact that 25% of all search requests are porn related)

One fact that makes above seem out of kilter is that 43% of male pastors have intentionally visited porn cites. (or course, all pastors are online)
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Postby delphyne » Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:22 am

There was a fairly good article in the Financial Times on Saturday (good statistics but forgot to mention anything about the sexism involved in men looking at porn). It had the following information -

2001 - internet tracking company Netvalue reported that 1/4 of Britons who had access to the internet had looked at pornogrphic websites in the course of a month

2004 - American internet tracking service Comscore reported that more than 70% of men aged 18-34 visit a porn site in a typical month

According to internet filter company N2H2 the number of pages in its database identified as pornography grew from 14 million in 1998 to 260 miillion in 2003

Washington Post reports that the online porn business is worth $2.5 billion a year compared with just $1.1 billion for music downloads.

2003 - Study for the London School of Economics "UK Children go online" found that 57% of children aged 9-19 who have accessed the internet from home have seen porn online. 25% have received a pornographic e-mail.

There are some more stats here -

http://www.protectkids.com/dangers/stats.htm
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Postby gerry » Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:45 am

2004 - American internet tracking service Comscore reported that more than 70% of men aged 18-34 visit a porn site in a typical month

According to internet filter company N2H2 the number of pages in its database identified as pornography grew from 14 million in 1998 to 260 miillion in 2003

Washington Post reports that the online porn business is worth $2.5 billion a year compared with just $1.1 billion for music downloads.


These three I find particularly significant and are much more in line with my intuitive take on the prevalence of online porn than other stats.

I sit here trying to imagine what that 30% of online males who don't visit porn sites once a month looks like---bet large majority have religious scruples or reasons, and the rest ???? (some new online men, some with plain good sense of what's right and wrong, some in good relationships---would like to know all the reasons--and many of the men attached to those reasons)
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