Pornography

•23% of American adults believe “whether one likes it or not people should have full access to pornography under the Constitution’s First Amendment.”

No Consensus Among American Public on the Effects of Pornography on Adults or Children or What Government Should Do About It, Harris Poll, 7 October 2005. www.harrisinteractive.com

•51% of US adults surveyed believe that pornography raises men’s expectation of how women should look and changes men’s expectations of how women should behave.

No Consensus Among American Public on the Effects of Pornography on Adults or Children or What Government Should Do About It, Harris Poll, 7 October 2005. www.harrisinteractive.com

•40% of adults surveyed believe that pornography harms relationships between men and women.

No Consensus Among American Public on the Effects of Pornography on Adults or Children or What Government Should Do About It, Harris Poll, 7 October 2005. www.harrisinteractive.com

•Americans spend $10 billion per year on pornography

Overdosing on Porn, Rebecca Hagelin. www.worldandi.com, March, 2004.

•“For the 20-year-old kid, porn stars have kind of replaced what models used to represent.”

How One Man Unleashed the Porn Plague, Andy Butcher. Charisma Magazine, November 2003.

•The Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, a health-care clinic for porn workers, carries out 600 AIDS and STD tests per month

How One man Unleashed the porn Plague, Andy Butcher. Charisma Magazine, November 2003.

•38 percent of adults believe it is ‘morally acceptable’ to look at pictures of nudity or explicit sexual behavior

Morality Continues to Decay. Barna Research Group, 3 November, 2003.

•59 percent of adults believe it is ‘morally acceptable’ to have sexual thoughts or fantasies

Morality Continues to Decay. Barna Research Group, 3 November, 2003.

•38 percent of adults believe there is nothing wrong with pornography use

Morality Continues to Decay. Barna Research Group, 3 November, 2003.

•42 percent of surveyed adults indicated that their partner’s use of pornography made them feel insecure

Marriage Related Research, Mark A. Yarhouse, Psy.D. Christian Counseling Today, 2004 Vol. 12 No. 1.

•41 percent of surveyed adults admitted they felt less attractive due to their partner’s pornography use

Marriage Related Research, Mark A. Yarhouse, Psy.D. Christian Counseling Today, 2004 Vol. 12 No. 1.

•30 percent of surveyed adults said their partner’s use of pornography made them feel more like a sexual object

Marriage Related Research, Mark A. Yarhouse, Psy.D. Christian Counseling Today, 2004 Vol. 12 No. 1.

•“A wave of confessionals and self-help guides written by current or former stars of pornographic films is flooding bookstores this year, accompanied by erotic novels, racy sexual-instruction guides, histories of sexual particulars and photographic treatments of the world of pornography.”

Sex, Sex, Sex: Up Front in Bookstores Near You, Edward Wyatt. The New York Times, 24 August, 2004.

•For every 10 men in church, 5 are struggling with pornography

The Call to Biblical Manhood. Man in the Mirror, 6 July, 2004.

•The more pornography men watch, the more likely they are to describe women in sexualized terms and categorize women in traditional gender roles

The Porn Factor, Pamela Paul. www.time.com. 19 January, 2004.

•Median age for the first use of pornography: boys: 11-13 girls: 12-14

Your Children & Pornography: A guide for Parents, Tom Buford. Tommera Press, 2001.

•47.78 percent of families said pornography is a problem in their home

Focus on the Family Poll, 1 October, 2003.

•According to pastors, the 8 top sexual issues damaging to their congregation are: 57% pornography addiction, 34% sexually active never-married adults, 30% adultery of married adults, 28% sexually active teenagers, 16% sexual dissatisfaction, 14% unwed pregnancy, 13% sexually active previously married adults, and 9% sexual abuse.

More Sex, Please. Christianity Today International, Winter 2005.

•According to 2004 IFR research, U.S. porn revenue exceeds the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, and NBC (6.2 billion). Porn revenue is larger than all combined revenues of all professional football, baseball and basketball franchises. The pornography industry, according to conservative estimates, brings in $57 billion per year, of which the United States is responsible for $12 billion.

Internet Pornography and Loneliness: An Association? Vincent Cyrus Yoder, Thomas B. Virden III, and Kiran Amin. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, Volume 12.1, 2005.

•Non-Internet pornography can be purchased or used through the Internet and is estimated to produce $20 billion in revenue world wide (IFR, 2004).

Internet pornography statistics. Internet Filter Review, 2004.

•One out of every six women grapples with addiction to pornography

Internet Pornography and Loneliness: An Association? Vincent Cyrus Yoder, Thomas B. Virden III, and Kiran Amin. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, Volume 12.1, 2005.

•Playboy’s third quarter profit rose to $3.2 million from $1.9 million in 2005.

Porn may be on the way for iPods, Rebecca Barr, www.azcentral.com, 2005