You Are Not Alone

I suppose we like to think that as Christians we don't struggle with things like porn... unforgivness... hatred... racism... etc. But the truth is we do!

Porn is a major problem today... and if you don't believe me... then just check out the stats below that I got from XXXCHURCH:

Get The Facts

One of the problems with porn is it makes you feel that you are all alone. The reality is that you are not. Check out the stats below and see how many people are involved in the world of porn.

Pornography Industry Statistics
	Size of the Industry	$57.0 billion world-wide - $12.0 billion US
	Adult Videos	$20.0 billion
	Escort Services	$11.0 billion
	Magazines	$7.5 billion
	Sex Clubs	$5.0 billion
	Phone Sex	$4.5 billion
	Cable & Pay Per View	$2.5 billion
	Internet	$2.5 billion
	CD-ROM	$1.5 billion
	Novelties	$1.0 billion
	Other	$1.5 billion

Porn revenue is larger than all combined revenues of all professional football, baseball, and basketball franchises.

US porn revenue exceeds the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, & NBC (6.2 billion).

Child pornography generates $3 billion annually.

Internet Porn Statistics
	Pornographic Website's	4.2 million (12% of total website's)
	Pornographic Pages	372 million
	Daily Pornographic Search Engine Requests	68 million (25% of total search engine requests)
	Daily Pornographics Emails	2.5 billion (8% of total emails)
	Avg. Daily Pornographic Emails/User	4.5 per internet user
	Monthly Pornographic downloads (Peer-to-peer)	1.5 billion (35% of all downloads)
	Daily Gnutella "child pornography" requests	116 thousand
	Website's offering illegal child pornography	100 thousand
	Sexual solicitations of youth made in chat rooms	89%
	Youths who received sexual solicitation	20%
	Worldwide visitors to pornographic web sites	72 million annually
Children's Exposure to Pornography
	Average age of first Internet exposure to pornography	11 years old
	Largest Consumer of Internet Pornography	12-17 age group
	15-17 year olds having multiple hardcore exposures	80%
	8-16 year olds having viewed porn online	90% (most while doing homework)
	7-17 year olds who would freely give out home address	29%
	7-17 year olds who would freely give out email addresses	14%
	Children's characters linked to thousands of porn links	26 (including Pokeman and Action Man)
Adult Internet Porn Statistics
	Men admitting to accessing porn at work	20%
	US adults who regularly visit internet porn sites	40 million
	Promise Keepers men who viewed porn in the last week	53%
	Christians who say porn is a major problem in the home	47%
	Adults admitting to internet sexual addiction	10%
	Breakdown of male/female visitors to porn sites	72% male - 28% female
Women & Pornography
	13% of Women admit to accessing porn at work.
	70% of women keep their cyber activities secret.
	17% of all women struggle with pornography addiction.
	Women, far more than men, are likely to act out their behaviors in real life, such as having multiple partners, casual sex, or affairs.
	Women favor chat rooms 2X's more than men.
	1 out of 3 visitors to adult website's are women.
	9.4 million women access adult website's each month.