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Child Pornography

“With the advent of the Internet, the problem with child pornography has exploded.”
— Ernie Allen, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

“65% of the johns [buyers] that go on the Internet are more responsive if the ads have age descriptors like “young” or “barely legal” attached to them — 65% are more responsive to that.”
— Kaffie McCullough, “A Future. Not A Past”/Juvenile Justice Fund (Shared Hope Intl’s “The National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: America’s Prostituted Children,” 2009, p19)

The number of Internet child pornography images has increased 1500% since 1988. Approximately 20% of all Internet pornography involves children.

(National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Internet Sex Crimes Against Minors: The Response of Law Enforcement. Virginia: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, 2003).

345% increase in child pornography sites between 2/2001-7/2001
N2H2 reported 403 child porn sites, or 67 per month, for the six months of April to September 2000.
Child porn sites rose dramatically for the six months of February to July 2001 to 1,391 or 231 per month. That's an increase of 345% at the rate of about 8 per day.

(N2H2 Filtering Service Press Release, 8/8/01)

Approximately 20 new children appear on the porn sites every month - many kidnaped or sold into sex. (Combating Pedophile Information Networks in Europe, March 2003).

The U.S. Customs Service estimates that there are more than 100,000 Web sites offering child pornography - which is illegal worldwide.

These unlawful sexual images can be purchased as easily as shopping at Amazon.com. "Subscribers" typically use credit cards to pay a monthly fee of between $30 and $50 to download photos and videos, or a one-time fee of a few dollars for single images. (Red Herring Magazine, 1/18/02).

Child pornography has become a $3 billion annual industry. (Ropelato, Jerry. Top Ten Reviews. Top Ten Reviews, Inc. 5 December, 2005. http://internet-filter-review....pornography-statistics.html).

Of those arrested in the U.S. for possession of child pornography between 2000 and 2001,
83% had images of children between 6 and 12
39% had images of children between 3 and 5
19% had images of infants and toddlers under age 3

(National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Child Pornography Possessors Arrested in Internet-Related Crimes: Findings from the National Juvenile Online Victimization Study, 2005)

More babies and toddlers are appearing on the net and the abuse is getting worse.
It is more torturous and sadistic than it was before. . . .
The typical age of children is between six and 12, but the profile is getting younger. . . . Demand for pornographic images of babies and toddlers on the Internet is soaring.
(Prof. Max Taylor, “Combating Pedophile Information Networks in Europe,” March 2003).

In the last couple of years, we've just seen such young children on regular seizures - babies, 2-, 3-, 4-year-olds.
(Det. Sgt. Paul Gillespie, Toronto Police Force).

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One in three children is accessing a “tsunami” of explicit pornographic images on the internet by the age of 10. (YouGov research and a study by child behavioral expert Tanya Byron, www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1332165/Third-pupils-aged-10-view-porn-internet.html#

Four in five teenagers regularly look up unsuitable photographs or film on their computers or mobile phones. (Ibid.)

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The average age of first Internet exposure to pornography is 11 years old

80% of 15-17 year olds have had multiple hard-core exposures
90% of 8-16 year olds have viewed porn online (most while doing homework)

29% of 7-17 year olds would freely give out home address on the Internet
14% of 7-17 year olds would freely give out email address

26 children's character names (Pokemon, Action Man, Mario) are linked to thousands of porn links. (http://internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html)

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20% of children (10-17 years old) receive unwanted sexual solicitations online. (“The Porn Standard, Children and Pornography on the Internet, A Third Way Report,” by Sean Barney, Senior Policy Advisor, July 2005)

56% were asked to send a picture online

27% of the pictures were sexually oriented

44% of the solicitors were under the age of 18

Pornography and sexualized media push teens to become sexually active.

Pornography and sexualized media distort the way teens view themselves and others: many teenage girls attempt to alter their dress and physical appearance to correspond to the sexualized modes they see in the media
“Pornography and sexualized media, are teaching teens that sex without responsibility is not only acceptable but preferable and desirable. Teenagers are being bombarded with ‘adult’ sexual images and situations long before they have the emotional maturity, wisdom, and life experiences to make informed decisions and choices.” (Excerpted from The Drug of The New Millennium)
Children are notorious for imitating what they've seen, read or heard. Studies suggest that exposure to pornography can prompt kids to act out sexually against younger, smaller or more vulnerable children.
Experts in the field of childhood sexual abuse report that any premature sexual activity in children always points to two possible stimulants: experience or exposure. This means that the sexually deviant child may either have been molested or simply exposed to sexuality through pornography.

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In a study of 600 American males and females of junior high school age and above, researcher Dr. Jennings Bryant found that:
91% of the males and 82% of the females admitted to having been exposed to X-rated, hark-core pornography.
Over 66% of the males and 40% of the females reported wanting to "try out" some of the sexual behaviors they had witnesses.
Among high schoolers, 31% of males and 18% of females admitted to actually doing some of the prurient things they had seen in the pornography within a few days of exposure.

(Donna Rich Hughes, Kids Online: Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace, published by Fleming H. Revell, a Division of Baker Book House Company, Grand Rapids, MI, 1998, p.88)

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40 million US adults regularly visit Internet pornography websites

72% male / 28% female: The breakdown (by sex) of visitors to pornography sites
10% of adults admit to Internet sexual addiction

20% of men admit to accessing pornography at work

53% of Promise Keeper men indicated they viewed pornography in last week
47% of Christians said pornography is a major problem in the home

http://internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html

Sexual addiction counselors may recommend 3-9 months without television for a person with a heavy pornography addiction, enabling them to heal from being so sexualized. Commercials provide eye-candy fixes.

A 2005 poll by NBC and Elle Magazine found that 24% of men who viewed pornography say it influenced their idea of beauty. The same poll found that 28% of men who view pornography have asked their partner to get breast implants.

Women & Porn

1 in 3 visitors to all adult web sites are women

9.4 million women access adult web sites each month
70% of women keep their cyber activities secret

17% of all women struggle with pornography addiction

13% of women admit to accessing pornography at work

Women are far more likely to act out their behaviors in real life, such as having multiple partners, casual sex or affairs. (http://internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html)

Pornography turns women into objects; a collection of body-parts. This fuels the infamous "Rape Myth," directly increasing the incidence of violence and sexual abuse against women.

Pornography actually increases the number of sexual assaults against women.
Pornography destroys healthy intimacy in marriage.

With hard-core pornography readily accessible in homes, offices and libraries, many women are feeling the stress of being around men in a "narrowed state" following porn viewing.

Quotables

"In over 26 years, I have treated approximately 350 males afflicted with sexual addictions (sometimes referred to as sexual compulsions).
In about 94% of the cases I have found that pornography was a contributor, facilitator or direct causal agent in the acquiring of these sexual illnesses."
(Victor B. Cline, "Pornography & Sexual Addictions," Christian Counseling Today 4, no.4 (1996): 58.)

I have been treating sexual violence victims and perpetrators for 13 years.
I have not treated a single case of sexual violence that did not involve pornography.
(Dr. Mary Anne Layden, University of Pennsylvania Haven Bradford, "Child Sex Abuse: America's Dirty Little Secret." MS Voices for Children. 3/2000)

The more pornography a man views, the less in love he feels with his wife.
(Don't Take Love Lying Down, Brad Henning, p. 388)

Pornography makes a profit from the ruined lives of young women
and entraps men who will spend lots of time and money succumbing to their product.
(Toxic Sex, Toxic Porn, Gene McConnell)

Research shows that heavy exposure to media sex is associated with
an increased perception of the frequency of sexual activity in the real world.
As a result, television may function as a kind of `superpeer,' normalizing these behaviors and, thus, encouraging them among teenagers.
(Pediatrics Vol. 107 No. 1 January 2001, pp. 191- 194 America Academy of Pediatrics, "Sexuality, Contraception, and the Media")

Industry Overview

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Porn profits are estimated to be $97 billion worldwide
Porn generates up to $13 billion dollars in profit in the US.

more than the combined revenues of the NFL, NBA and MLB!
more than the combined revenues of NBC, CBS and ABC!

(http://internet-filterreview/toptenreviews.com/internet-pornographystatistics.html)

25 million Americans visit cyber-sex sites between 1-10 hours per week. Another 4.7 million in excess of 11 hours per week. (MSNBC/Stanford/Duquesne Study, Washington Times, 1/26/2000).

In 2000, there were 11,000 adult titles vs. Hollywood's 400 releases. (New York Times, May 20, 2001, "Naked Capitalists: There's No Business Like Porn Business," Frank Rich)

Pornographic Websites: 4.2 million (12% of all websites)

Pornographic Pages: 372 million
Worldwide Visitors to Pornographic Web Sites: 72 million (annually)
Daily Pornographic Search Engine Requests: $68 million (25% of all search engine requests)
Daily Pornographic Emails: 2.5 billion (8% of all emails)
Average Daily Pornographic Emails/User: 4.5 per Internet user
Monthly Pornographic Downloads Peer-to-peer: 1.5 billion (35% of all downloads)

Websites Offering Illegal Child Pornography: 100,000

Daily Gnutella (child pornography) Requests: 116,000
Sexual Solicitations of Youth Made in Chat Rooms: 89%
Youths Who Received Sexual Solicitation: 20%

“Adult Entertainment” Revenues: $57 billion (worldwide); $12 billion (US)

Adult videos: $20 billion
Escort services: $11 billion
Magazines: $7.5 billion
Sex clubs: $5 billion
Phone sex: $4.5 billion
Cable/Pay per view: $2.5 billion
Internet: $2.5 billion
CD-Rom: $1.5 billion
Novelties: $1 billion
Other: $1.5 billion

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