Porn Addiction in America

AMERICA IS ADDICTED TO PORN Selling sex is one of the oldest businesses in the world, and right now, business has never been better. But is this full-blown addiction to porn is spreading from computer and TV screens across America to homes, families, and marriages across the country at a dangerous pace. 30:0 RIDING MISS DAISY Every 30 minutes. A porn film is made in the US. Every second: 30,000 people are viewing porn XXX The USA 42.7% of internet produces 89% of all pornographic web pages users view pom (that's 102,434,567 people) Porn is roughly a $13,000,000,000 industry It's larger than the revenues of the top technology companies combined. "PORN, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Apple, Netflix, EarthLink There are SEX 25% 68 MILLION daily pornographic search engine of total IS THE search engine requests #1 TOPIC FOR INTERNET requests SEARCHES 2.5 billion daily pornographic emails (8% of total emails) The average Internet user receives 4.5 Lust of the Pulp Friction Good Will Throbbin' Humping Hood Mohicans pornographic emails per day. 70% of the internet traffic occurs during the 9-5 workday. The average age of initial pornography exposure is just 11. Breakdown of male/female visitors to pornography sites: 28% FEMALE 72% MALE 17% Men are more than 6X as likely to view porn than woman, and more likely to spend more time viewing it. of women say they struggle with pornography addiction. About 200,000 Americans are "porn addicts," defined as spending 11 hours or more per week online looking at porn. Repeatedly viewing porn can negatively effect your sex drive: 69 XXX More than 50% of those engaged in "sexual internet in- teractions" had lost One-third of 11 interest in sexual intercourse. their partners had lost interest HOURS as well. Addiction to porn has led to: 40% of "sex addicts" lose their spouses 58% suffer considerable financial losses One-third lose their jobs Pornography use increases the marital infidelity rate by more than 300% 56% of divorce cases involved one person having an obsessive interest in pornographic websites. Severe élinical depréssion was reported twice as frequently among Internet pornography users compared to non-users. Sexual compulsives and sexual addicts are 23 times more likely than those without a problem to state that: I Discovering online sexual material was the worst thing that had ever happened in their life. II SOURCES: http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/20/how-porn-is-changing-our-sex-lives/ http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/07/28/am.intv.dines.pornland.cnn http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1332165/Third-pupils- aged-10-view-porn-internet.html#ixzz1D1QCp1rF http://techcrunch.com/2007/05/12/internet-pornography-stats/ http://www.time.com/time/2004/sex/article/the_porn_factor_in_the 01a.html www.OnlinePsychologyDegree.net