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Pornography Facts and Figures 11/19/2002
Talking Points
By Janet M. LaRue
- Obscenity (hard-core pornography), child pornography, and material harmful to minors (soft-core pornography displayed or distributed to minors) are not protected by the First Amendment.
- Hard-core pornography is piped into homes, hotels and corporations in every metropolis and hamlet via cable and satellite television, dial-a-porn, and cyberspace.
- America's children are exposed to the most extreme hard-core and child porn through unfiltered Internet access in homes, schools and libraries.
- Porn revenue is bigger than all combined revenues of all the professional football, baseball, and basketball franchises.
- Porn earnings are estimated at $10-12 billion in the U.S. and $56 billion worldwide.
adult videos-$20 billion
sex clubs-$5 billion
magazines-$7.5 billion
phone sex-$4.5 billion
escort services-$11 billion
cable/satellite/pay-per-view TV-$2.5 billion
CD-ROM/DVD-ROM-$1.5 billion
Internet (sales and memberships)-$1.5 billion
novelties-$1 billion
others-$1.5
- GM (owner of DirecTV) and AT&T (owner of Hot Network) have brought porn to Wall Street.
- Adult Video News claims that the largest credit card company makes $35 million per month off of e-porn.
- Major hotel chains such as Marriott, make more from pay-per-view porn than from snack and drinks sales in minibars.
- X-rated material, similar to alcohol or cocaine that release pleasure-producing chemicals in the brain, can lead to an addiction in some consumers.
- Psychologists say addiction to porn warp's a man's relationship with women, producing more divorce and sexual abuse in America.
- In November 2000 media reported that Internet pornographers had buried the names of popular toys in the metatags in their Web sites in order to reroute traffic to their Web sites.
- Internet porn infiltrated the Clinton White House west wing, including bestiality, gay and teen sex.
- Companies are firing employees for porn surfing on company time; the Dean of the Harvard Divinity School resigned after porn was found on his office computer.
- Porn businesses bring increased crime, drug abuse, urban blight and decreased property values to the surrounding neighborhoods, which is the basis for the Supreme Court upholding more stringent regulations of them than other businesses.
- Sex-film performers admit that nearly everyone has STDs and that performers in violent porn films are beaten and choked.
[Source: Janet M. LaRue, Esq., World Magazine, "Porn Nation," Aug. 2000 p.p.44-49]
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