Current Porn Statistics

Current Porn statistics are offered here as they become available.
Links are not provided when the site has provocative material.

According to a survey of 19,000 parents, kids begin viewing porn as early as age 6.
ABC News10, May 15, 2013 

100% of 9th grade boys and 50% of girls surveyed by the Deputy Children’s Commissioner in the UK were found to be accessing porn. 4,500 children had committed sexual offenses.
HuffPost Lifestyle, May 7, 2013

30% of all data transferred across the internet is porn. 70% of men watch it, while 30% of women do.
ZeeNews India, May 5, 2013

Of a survey of 1000 people, 44% view free porn on the internet as their preferred method for obtaining it, 16% on DVDs, and 4% on pay per view sites. 36% said they don’t view porn, meaning that 64% regularly access it in some way.
Huffington Post, Free Porn Continues to be a Problem for the Porn Industry, 4-10-13

1 in 3 visitors of porn sites are women. In 2006, the UK alone received 1.9 billion in revenue from porn.
Policymic, 3-9-13

Investigations of sex offences by minors increased by 38% from 2009/2010 to 2011/2012 in the UK.
UK Daily Mail, 3-3-13

A year long survey found that 75% of pre-university students in rural areas of India were addicted to porn.
The Indian Express, 2-27-13

90% of therapists see more problems related to porn use.
94% of therapists have seen a rise in people addicted to porn.
70% of 18 to 34 year olds use porn once a month.
From a Cosmopolitan survey, as quoted by Medical Daily, January 20, 2013

A major website that offers porn videos reports the following statistics:
U.S. States that viewed the most porn:
1. District of Columbia
2. Massachusetts
3. New York
4. Rhode Island
5. New Jersey
Day of the year with the highest traffic – December 27, 2012, with more than 12 million visitors
Buzzfeed, as reported by DCIst, January 9, 2013

67% of men and 49% of women say porn is acceptable.
One youth minister states that 90% of the kids who come to him for help… all who are from Christian families… are addicted to porn.
21% of Christian teenage girls admit to texting a naked photo of themselves. 12-3-12: CBN News

In the Springs of 2012, PBS published the results of a survey by the Kinsey Institute. There were 10,453 respondents, 80% of who were men. When asked why they used porn, the top 5 reasons given were:
1. To masturbate / for physical release.
2. For sexual arousal.
3. From curiosity.
4. “Because I can fantasize about things I wouldn’t necessarily want to do in real life.”
5. For distraction.
PBS Frontline; American Porn

2/3 of Australian men view porn, some up to 5 hours a day. 20% of porn addicts prefer porn to sex with their wives. 30% admit their performance at work suffers because of porn.
News.com.au, September 13, 2012

One in three ten-year-olds have been exposed to pornography online; the largest group of internet porn consumers: 12 to 17 year olds.
Daily Mail, August 31, 2012

It appears that broadcast TV will soon go the way of Cable TV and show explicit nudity. The Parents Television Council found a 407% increase of incidents of full nudity (which are pixelated in certain areas) in the 2011-2012 television season, as compared to the previous year. 70% of shows with “blurred nudity” appeared before 9:00. It probably won’t be long before the pixels come off.
August 27, 2012, as reported by PluggedIn.

Orlando is the porn capital of the U.S.A. Men’s Health drew statistics from DVD rentals, number of Adult stores, porn searches on Google and households that subscribed to Cinemax. Las Vegas was #2, Wilmington, NC was #3, Raleigh, NC was #4 and Charlotte, NC was #5.
Daily Mail, May 8, 2012.

Four out of five 16 year old boys and girls regularly access porn online, while one in three ten year olds have seen it.
60% of 11-16 year olds have internet access in their room.
UK Mail Online, 4-18-12

One of the largest porn sites in the world receives 4.4 billion page views a month by 350 million unique visitors, 3 times the page views of CNN or ESPN.
As provided by Google’s Double Click Ad Planner, quoted by Extreme Tech.
4-9-12

In 2011, one child was sexually attacked every 20 minutes in the UK.
SkyNews, UK 4-4-2012

50% of pastors regularly view porn.
As quoted from a pastormark.tv survey, 3-27-12

A Christian missions agency is reported as saying that 80% of their applicants admit to struggles with porn.
Harry Schaumberg in Christian Post, 3-8-12

Disturbing “new” trend: teens having group sex. 1 in 13 teenaged girls confessed to participating in group sex in a recent survey by Boston University’s School of Public Health. Those who viewed porn in the previous month were 5 times more likely to participate in group sex.
New Jersey News Room, 12-21-11

Phone sex generates 750 million to 1 billion of revenue a year.
Slate, 12-19-11, quoting a 2005 survey

On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 the xxx domain went live with over 100,000 new porn sites. Porn sites with .com or other extension are not banned, which means the xxx sites are adding to, not replacing existing sites.
Christian Post, 12-7-11

80% of boys and 40% of girls in Ireland admitted to viewing porn in a Unicef survey.
November 26, 2011, Irish Independent, “Sex and the Irish Teen.”

From a survey of 1000 pastors:

• 69% say porn has adversely affected the church.

When asked to estimate how many of their church members view porn on a weekly basis:

• 43% of these pastors did not respond. Of those who did:
• 62% of pastors said less than 10% of congregants view porn weekly
• 24% of pastors said that 10-24% of their members view porn weekly
• 10% of pastors said that that 25-49% of their members view porn weekly
• 4% of pastors said that 50% or more of their members view porn weekly

Other statistics:

• 43% of internet users view porn.
• 70% of 18-24 year olds visit porn sites monthly.
  Baptist Press, November 15, 2011, quoting Lifeway Research and Education Database survey results.

Porn users are 400% more likely to visit a prostitute.
The Daily Reporter, November 7, 2011

• Sex and porn are in the top 5 search terms for kids under 18.
• 37% of UK families have set up porn filters.
• British teens spend an average of 87 hours a year looking at porn.
• 70% of all porn traffic occurs between 9:00am and 5pm during theworkweek.
  Independent Online, October 31, 2011

An Australian ISP blocked 84,000 requests for child porn in the first 3 months after it initiated a voluntary porn filter.

ZD Net, October 19, 2011

In a survey of 300 children under the age of 13 in India, 67% admitted to accessing porn sites, most by their cell phones.
Cathnews India, October 12, 2011

70% of Christian men view porn repeatedly.
Chad Barrett, author of Journey to Freedom
Everyday Christian, October 8, 2011

A University of New Hampshire study found that two thirds of junior high school students surveyed looked at porn on the internet when they were supposed to be studying. About 34% go on to have a problem with internet porn.

As many as 40% of those who have problems with sex addiction from online interactions are women.
Rochester City Newspaper, 9-28-11

90% of eight to 16 year olds have viewed porn online.
Independent Online, 9-27-11

90% of teenagers have viewed porn.
80% of 15-17 year olds have been exposed to hard core porn.
67% of men and 59% of women said that porn was acceptable.
Campus Crusade for Christ staff.
Christian Post, 7-16-2011