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 Ł2 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