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- Sites containing pornographic material are the only genre of sites to consistenly turn a profit on the Internet.
- Child Pornography was pretty much eradicated in the 1980's. with the advent of the Internet, it exploded. - Kevin Delli - Colli, head of the CyberSmuggling Center, Newsweek: The Web's Dark Secret. March 19, 2001.
- Of the 3 million unique users under seventeen that visited adult sites in September of 2000, 21.2% of them were under the age of 14. - eStatNews, 1/9/01.
- More than half of teenagers have visited Internet sites containing pornography. Study of 501 youths by Yankelovich Partners, Newday, 9/7/99.
- It is estimated that 200,000 Americans are addicted to pornography on the Internet. - Study by Stanford and Duquesne Universities, U.S. News and World Report, 3/27/00.
- NetValue says that there were 3 million unique visitors to adult sites in September 2000. - eStatNew, 1/9/01.
- Analysts from Forrester Research say that sex sites on the Web generate at least $1 billion a year in revenue. - Wall Street Meets Pornography, New York Times - October 23, 2000.
- Alexa Research, a leading web intelligence and traffic measurement service, has revealed..."sex" was the most popular term for which people searched. Of all the terms searched for online, 0.3289% - or roughtly 1 of every 300 terms, were "sex." "Porn" (along with "porno" and "pornography") was the 4th most popular search term. "Nude" (and "nudes"), "xxx," "Playboy" and "erotic stories" (and "erotica") were also among the top 20.
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