ANY WAY YOU'D LIKE IT: The Sale of Pornography
Pornography's legal business profits have reached a total of up to $56,000,000,000 (56 Billion) worldwide. -Forbes magazine, April 10, 2000
Hardcore pornography videos are being produced at a rate of 150 new titles a week. -U.S. News & World Report, February 1997
$970,000,000 (970 million) was spent to pay for access to
pornographic websites in 1998, and the figure is expected to rise to $3,000,000,000 (3 Billion) by the year 2003. -U.S. News & World Report, March 27, 2000: research done by Datamonitor
Though it is impossible to obtain an accurate count of pornographicwebsites, especially being that many are not even registered, a widely accepted minimum number of pornographically oriented websites is 50,000. -Yahoo! Internet Life, May 2001, p.91
The pornography industry brought in revenues of $8,000,000,000 (8Billion) in the year 1999. That exceeds the total revenue of the Rock and Roll and Country Music Industry combined.-U.S. News & World Report, March 2000
During the 1999-2000 Election period, pornography generated$11,000,000,000 (11 Billion) in sales. During that same period of time, both political parties combined on generated $1.2 Billion in fundraising.– Human Events, May 14, 2001
FEEDING THE HABIT: The Demand for Pornography
It has been estimated that up to 80% of the Internet consists ofpornographic websites. -"The Harm of Pornography", Educational Information, November 15, 1996
Hardcore pornography video rentals rose from 75,000,000 (75 Million) in the year 1985 to 490,000,000 (490 Million) in 1992, and on to 665,000,000 (665 Million) in 1996. -U.S. News & World Report, February 10, 1997
Hardcore pornography videos released to the market were 1,300 in 1987 and have grown to 11,041 in 2000. –Adult Video News 12/99
There are approximately 25,000 outlets which sell hardcore
Pornography within the United States. 25,000 porn outlets,
compared to the 9,000 McDonald's fast food establishments within the United States. -Adult Video News, 1997
The top five pornography websites receive 4,000,000 (4 Million) unique viewers on a daily basis, compared to the 2.5 Million that visit the top five news websites (including MSNBC.com and CNN.com). -Yahoo! Internet Life, May 2001,p.91 |
