Did you know...

    * Pornography is a $57 billion a year industry. In comparison, the combined revenues of all teams in the NBA, NHL, MLB, and NFL is $12 billion, and the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, and NBC is a mere $6.2 billion.
      Internet Filter Review
      Economic Values of Professional Sport Franchises in the United States

    * 1 in 4 youth have unwanted exposure to inapprpriate pictures each year
      The Internet Keep Safe Coalition

    * Nine of 10 kids aged 8-16 have viewed pornography on the Internet, often in the process of doing homework.
      London School of Economics January 2002

    * Students were most at risk for cybersex compulsions due to a combination of increased access to computers, more private leisure time, & developmental stage characterized by increased sexual awareness & experimentation. Both computer classes & colleges might need to recognize this increased vulnerability and institute new primary prevention strategies.
      Sexual Addiction and Compulsion: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, March, 2000 ( available by subscription )

    * "Cyber-sex is the crack cocaine of sexual addiction"
      Jennifer P. Schneider, M.D., Ph.D
      The New "Elephant in the Living Room" Effects of Compulsive Cybersex Behaviors on the Spouse , from the book Sex and the Internet, 2002

    * "Cyber-sex reinforces and normalizes sexual disorders"
      Robert Weiss, Sexual Recovery Institute

    * One in five children ages 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation over the Internet
      Online Victimization: A Report on the Nation's Youth , sponsored by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. See also UNH Study Finds Many Youth Exposed to Sexual Solicitation, Pornography and Harassment on Internet , 19 March, 2001.

    * 74 percent of commercial pornography sites display free porn images on the homepage.
      Child-Proofing on the World Wide Web: A Survey of Adult Webservers, 2001, Jurimetrics (abstract).
      Summarized in Youth and the Internet (Chapter 3, The Adult Online Entertainment Industry ), National Research Council, 2002.

    * 45 percent of 1,000 surveyed teens admitted parents are the biggest influence in deciding whether or not to have sex
    * 88 percent of teens say it would be easier to postpone sex if they could have more open, honest conversations with their parents
    * Two-thirds of U.S. teenagers who have had sexual relations wish they had waited longer.
      National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, September 2003.