More Porn Addiction Information
There is a huge amount of information that you need to understand to really overcome an addiction to pornography. Theer are also a lot of statistics that are very interesting if you need to know. Let take a look at soem intersting porn addiction stats:
Statistics
From www.safefamilies.org
- Unique worldwide users visiting adult web sites monthly: 72 million (Internet Filter Review).
- Adults admitting to Internet sexual addiction: 10%; 28% of those are women (Internet Filter Review).
- More than 70% of men from 18 to 34 visit a pornographic site in a typical month (comScore Media Metrix).
- Approximately 20% of all Internet pornography involves children (National Center for Mission & Exploited Children).
- "At a 2003 meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, two thirds of the 350 divorce lawyers who attended said the Internet played a significant role in the divorces in the past year, with excessive interest in online porn contributing to more than half such cases. Pornography had an almost non-existent role in divorce just seven or eight years ago." (Divorcewizards.com)
- A 1996 Promise Keepers survey at one of their stadium events revealed that over 50% of the men in attendance were involved with pornography within one week of attending the event.
- 51% of pastors say cyber-porn is a possible temptation. 37% say it is a current struggle (Christianity Today, Leadership Survey, 12/2001).
- Over half of evangelical pastors admits viewing pornography last year.
- Roger Charman of Focus on the Family's Pastoral Ministries reports that approximately 20 percent of the calls received on their Pastoral Care Line are for help with issues such as pornography and compulsive sexual behavior.
- In a 2000 Christianity Today survey, 33% of clergy admitted to having visited a sexually explicit Web site. Of those who had visited a porn site, 53% had visited such sites “a few times” in the past year, and 18% visit sexually explicit sites between a couple of times a month and more than once a week.
- 57% of pastors say that addiction to pornography is the most sexually damaging issue to their congregation (Christians and Sex Leadership Journal Survey, March 2005).
- Statistics on Women with Pornography Addiction 28% those admitting to sexual addiction are women (internet-filter-review.com).
- 34% of female readers of Today's Christian Woman's online newsletter admitted to intentionally accessing Internet porn in a recent poll and 1 out of every 6 women, including Christians, struggles with an addiction to pornography (Today’s Christian Woman, Fall 2003).
- 47% percent of families said pornography is a problem in their home (Focus on the Family Poll, October 1, 2003).
- The Internet was a significant factor in 2 out of 3 divorces (American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers in 2003 - divorcewizards.com).
- 1 in 7 children who use the internet have been sexually solicated - 2005. (Internet Filter Review)
- 1 in 4 kids participate in Real Time Chat. (FamilyPC Survey, 2000).
- 1 in 5 children (10 to 17 years old) receives unwanted sexual solicitations online (Youth Internet Safety Survey, U.S. Department of Justice, 2001).
- 2 in 5 abductions of children ages 15-17 are due to Internet contact (San Diego Police Dept.).
