Internet Pornography Statistics
Pornographic websites:
4.2 million (12% of total websites)
Pornographic pages:
420 million
Daily pornographic search engine requests:
68 million (25% of total search engine requests)
Daily pornographic emails:
2.5 billion (8% of total emails)
Internet users who view porn:
42.7%
Received unwanted exposure to sexual material:
34%
Average daily pornographic emails/user:
4.5 per Internet user
Monthly Pornographic downloads (Peer-to-peer):
1.5 billion (35% of all downloads)
Daily *Gnutella "child pornography" requests:
116,000
Websites offering illegal child pornography:
100,000
Sexual solicitations of youth made in chat rooms:
89%
Youths who received sexual solicitation:
1 in 7 (down from 2003 stat of 1 in 3)
Worldwide visitors to pornographic web sites:
72 million visitors
Monthly Internet Pornography Sales:
$4.9 billion
*(Gnutella is a popular peer-to-peer file sharing network on the Internet.)
Children Internet Pornography Statistics
Average age of first Internet exposure to pornography:
11 years old
Largest consumer of Internet pornography:
35 - 49 age group
15-17 year olds having multiple hard-core exposures:
80%
8-16 year olds having viewed porn online:
90% (most while doing homework)
7-17 year olds who would freely give out home address:
29%
7-17 year olds who would freely give out email address:
14%
Children's character names linked to thousands of porn links:
26 (Including Pokemon and Action Man)
Adult Internet Pornography Statistics
Men admitting to accessing pornography at work:
20%
US adults who regularly visit Internet pornography websites: 40 million
Promise Keeper men who viewed pornography in last week:
53%
Christians who said pornography is a major problem in the home:
47%
Adults admitting to Internet sexual addiction:
10%
Breakdown of male/female visitors to pornography sites:
72% male - 28% female
Women and Pornography
Women keeping their cyber activities secret:
70%
Women struggling with pornography addiction:
17%
Ratio of women to men favoring chat rooms:
2X
Percentage of visitors to adult websites who are women:
1 in 3 visitors
Women accessing adult websites each month:
9.4 million
Women admitting to accessing pornography at work:
13%