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PREVALENCE OF PORN
Videos
6,000 porn movies are released each year (New York Post, 03)
Since 1991, the number of new titles released each year has increased by 500% (US News & World Report, 1997)
71% of porn videos are rented by men who watch alone. (George Magazine, 1998)
19% of porn videos are rented by hetero couples. (Ibid.)
1% of porn videos are rented by lesbian couples. (Ibid.)
Profits from porn video rentals and sales were $4.2 billion in 1996. (Newsweek)
There are now more outlets for hard-core porn in America than McDonald's restaurants. (National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families.)
Online
Online porn generates about $1 billion in revenue each year. (National Research Council, 2002).
25 million Americans spend 1 -10 hours per week viewing online porn. And 4.7 million spend more than 11 hours per week. (MSNBC/Stanford/Duquesne Study, 2000)
Strip Clubs
Number of strip clubs in the US as of 1997: 2,500 (US News & World Report, 1997)
The number of strip clubs in the US doubled between 1987 and 1992 (Ibid.)
A well-run strip club can earn $5 million a year. (Ibid.)
The word pornography is derived from ancient Greek, meaning "writing about whores." (Dworkin)
CHILDREN AND PORN
In 1985, the average age of a boy's first exposure to porn was eleven. (Bryant, 1985)
Today, 9 out of 10 children between the ages of 8 and 16 have accessed Internet porn, accidentally or intentionally. (London School of Economics)
29% of boys in 1992 named porn their "most significant source' of sex education. (Check and Maxwell, 1992)
A 1991 study found that 33% of boys surveyed thought it was acceptable to force sex on a girl who is drunk, and 40% said it was okay to force sex after dating a girl for six months. ("Rape in America: A Report to the Nation," 1992 )
1 in 5 children in a chat-room has been contacted by an adult. (Detective Keith Akerman, 2002)
20,000 images of child porn are posted on the Internet each week (NSPCC, 2003).
In 1998, the US was the world's largest consumer of child pornography. (Antaseeda, Bangkok Post, 1998)
87% of molesters of girls, and 77% of the molesters of boys admitted to regular use of hard-core pornography. (Marshall, 1988.)
Sexually abused children are about 4 times as likely to develop a psychiatric disorder, and 3 times as likely to develop a substance abuse problem as other children. (Finkelhor and Dzinba-Leatherman, 1994)
PORN AND VIOLENCE
25 to 30% of male college students said they might rape a woman "if they could be assured of getting away with it": (Donnerstein, 1983)
That number jumped to 57% after the same men had watched 10 hours of porn featuring rape scenes. (Ibid.)
In 1983, Alaska and Nevada had the highest per capita readership of porn and the highest rape rate. (Baron and Strauss)
The incidence of rape in America has risen 500% since 1960. (National Victim Center and National Coalition for the Protection of Women and Families)
The murder rate in New York City has dropped to a 40-year low, while the rape rate has steadily increased. (NY Daily News, 2002)
81% of serial killers interviewed by the FBI named hard-core porn their "highest sexual interest." (Final Report of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography, 1986)
A 1985 study by Abel found that 50% to 66% of convicted sex offenders admitted to regular porn use. In a 1988 study by Marshall, this number climbed to 86%.
56% of the rapists in the Marshall study said they imitated favorite porn scenes while committing their crimes.
Pornography was used before or during sexual assault in 41% of rape cases committed in Michigan between 1956-1979. (Detective Darrell Pope)
In Phoenix, neighborhoods with a porn outlet had 40% more property crime and 500% more sex offenses than neighborhoods without one. (U.S. Department of Justice, 1988)
After 150 porn shops in Oklahoma City were closed, the city's rape rate declined 27% over 5 years. (NCSP website)
Elsewhere in Oklahoma, reported rapes were up 19%. (Ibid.)
In a 1982 survey of San Francisco prostitutes, Silbert and Pines found that:
o 97% had been raped at least once
o 89% were sexually abused as children
o 38% had been used in porn as children
o 24% of the rape survivors said their rapist had mentioned his porn use during the crime
In a 1999 survey, Holsopple found that 100% of strippers had experienced physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal harassment, and propositions for prostitution at their jobs.
The only two industries where women out-earn their male counterparts: porn and prostitution.