Surprise, Surprise: Internet Porn Is Popular

by Evan Shamoon on May 15, 2007 at 12:03 PM

DISCLAIMER: This video straddles the line between what is and what isn't safe at work. Watch at your own risk.

If you can't watch, let us tell you about it. Courtesy of Good Magazine, the video lists some amazing statistics concerning porn's total dominance of the Internet. But instead of using boring pie charts, Good has gone and written the statistics in magic marker on the skin of a very attractive young lady. And, actually, there is a pie chart in there!

Though it's far from breaking news that Internet porn is so popular, these numbers are pretty amazing:

12 percent of all Web sites are porn
25 percent of all search engine requests are for porn
35 percent of all Internet downloads are pornographic
Every second, 28,258 Internet users are viewing porn
89 percent of porn is created in the U.S.
$2.84 billion in revenue was generated from U.S. porn sites in 2006
70 percent of the Internet porn traffic occurs during the nine to five workday
260 new porn sites go online daily

Well, we don't want to spoil the whole thing for you...

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JaculisMay 16th 2007 10:21AM

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What is surprising about the article is that 12% of adult sites were categorized as sexually voyeuristic-oriented, per se.

Yet, just a couple of years earlier, Hoover's [owned by D&B] reported that only 1.2% of all sites were hosting and delivering such content. They estimated at that time that these 1.2% collected an annual $2.6B out a slightly less than $6B online internet service/content delivery market. The report is available from Hoover's [at least it was within the last month] for about $1500US. The abstract for the article, which is free, has the numbers mentioned above, however.

I wonder if the same unit for "site" is used in both studies, e.g., a single domain might have multiple topic areas with separate logins and I wonder if that is a site, or if the domain IP address is a "site". This is important in that if we are statistically comparing proverbial Garden-of-Eden "apples to apples", there appears to be a market diversification and commoditization and democratization, while the total market cap has not really changed.

"Pornography" [loose definition] has been around since before the scribing on the walls of Pompeii, and, remembering that market demand tends to drive need for services, it is significant if that market is over 2,500 years old.

That would be at least as old as Aristotle's hierarchical system of nomenclature, which is still going strong, but not as long as the "world's oldest profession".

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