THE ADULT ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
· $57 BILLION spent each year on adult entertainment
· Porn websites account fo 12% of all web sites on the internet
· Daily porn searches account 25% of total search engine requests
· Each month 1.5 billion porn related downloads are made, 35% of all net downloads
· Credit / debit cards, Premium Rate numbers and Premium SMS
are the main payment systems
· VoD and streaming movies are fast becoming the main income for adult webmasters
· Adult movie sales per annum generate $20 Billion
· $4.5 Billion spent on Phone Sex each year
· Pay per View customers spend $2.5 Billion per year
· Porn revenue is greater than all the combined revenue of US professional football,
basketball and baseball clubs
· Porn revenue in the US exceeds the combined revenue of ABC, NBC and CBS TV stations
· The UK porn industry is worth upto £2 Billion per year
· Porn in the UK is growing at 20% per annum
· 1 in 4 adults, including 1.4 million women, downloaded porn images last year
· 9 Million UK men, almost 40% of the male population, accessed a porn website in 2005
· In 2000 only an estimated two million men viewed porn on the internet
· The average age of the 1 in 4 males looking at internet porn is between 25 and 49
· The BBFC passed more hardcore films in 2005 than any other year
· Women are the fastest growing users of internet porn, up 30% on last year
· In the last twelve months the number has risen from 1 million to 1.4 million
· Britain is the fastest growing market in the world for downloading porn
· "US News & World Report" estimated that the US sex industry is bigger than
the motion picture or the record industry
· "USA Today" reported one third of all internet users visit adult sites
· "CNN" said that adult web sites are the most consistently profitable sector of the Internet