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Old 12-15-2004, 09:22 AM  
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Facts about porn!?

Can you please help me out. I need some facts about this industry. Here are some. Please ADD;

* Increase in porn releases since 1991: 500% (US News & World Report, 1997) .

* Porn rentals by men watching alone: 71%
Porn rentals by hetero couples: 19% (Ibid.)
Porn rentals by lesbian couples: 1% (Ibid.)

* 1996 profits from porn video rentals and sales: $4.2 billion (Newsweek)

* Hard-core porn outlets now outnumber McDonald's restaurants in America. (NCPCF) .

* Annual online porn revenue as of 2002: $1 billion (National Research Council) .

* 25 million Americans spend 1 -10 hours per week with online porn. (MSNBC, 2000)

* 4.7 million spend more than 11 hours per week. (Ibid)

* A well-run strip club can earn $5 million a year. (Ibid.) .

* Average age of a male's first porn exposure in 1985: 11 years. (Bryant, 1985)

* 20,000 images of child porn are posted online each week (NSPCC, 2003) . PIGS

* The word pornography is derived from ancient Greek, meaning "writing about whores".
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