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Child Exploitation Online
- "In fiscal year 1998, the FBI opened up roughly 700 cases
dealing with online pedophilia, most of them for posting child
pornography, and about a quarter dealing with online predators trying
to get children under 18 to meet with them. By 2000 that figure had
quadrupled to 2,856 cases."
- Source: "The Web's Dark Secret" Newsweek.
3/19/01
Child Sexual Abuse
- An estimated 325,000 U.S. children age 17 or younger are
prostitutes, performers in pornographic videos or have otherwise
fallen victim to “commercial sexual exploitation,” University of
Pennsylvania researchers will report today.
Their 3-year, $400,000 study is based on research in 17 cities. The
work includes interviews with 200 child victims, most already in the
legal system, and more than 800 state, federal and local officials.
Experts on juvenile law say it is that deepest investigation yet into
the extent of the problem. There are 72 million children age 17 or
younger in the USA…
- Source: Memmott, Mark. “Sex Trade may lure 325,000 U.S. Kids;
Report: Abused children, runaways typical victims.” USA TODAY.
9/10/01
Cybersex/Online Advances and Kids
- Based on interviews with a nationally representative sample of 1,501
youth ages 10 to 17 who use the Internet regularly, approximately one
in five received a sexual solicitation or approach over the Internet
in the last year. One in thirty-three received an aggressive sexual
solicitation- a solicitor who asked to meet them somewhere; called
them on the telephone; sent them regular mail, money or gifts. One in
four had an unwanted exposure to pictures of naked people or people
having sex in the last year.
- Source: "Report Statistical Highlights." from the
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Crimes Against
Children Research Center and Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention. 6/00
Internet Filtering
- Internet filtering software generally fails to block one out of
every five sites deemed objectionable, Consumer Reports magazine
concludes. The magazine said filters haven’t improved since it last
tested them four years ago.
- Source: Jesdanun, Anick. “Internet Filters.” Associated
Press. 2/14/01
Internet Pornography
- There were 27.5 million U.S. visitors to adult-oriented pornographic
Web sites in January 2002, says Christine Chan of Nielsen//NetRatings,
the Internet audience measurement service. About 72% of visitors were
men, 28% women, Chan says.
American consumers spent an estimated $220 million at such fee-based
“adult” sites in 2001, according to Jupiter Media Metrix, a New
York Internet research firm. That was up from $148 million in 1999.
Jupiter is projecting $320 million by 2005.
- Source: Elias, Marilyn. “Cybersex follows Mars, Venus
patterns.” USA Today. 2/26/02
- A comprehensive two-year study by 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 roughly 1 of every 300 terms, were
"sex." According to their online searching habits, people
want "sex" more than they want "games,"
"music," "travel," "jokes,"
"cars," "jobs," "weather" and
"health" combined. "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.
The most popular celebrities searched for were Britney Spears, Pamela
Anderson, Backstreet Boys, Jennifer Lopez and Eminem. Pokemon was the
most popular specific toy or game searched. Playboy was the most
popular media property.
- Source: "Alexa Research Finds 'Sex' Popular on the
Web..." Business Wire. 02/14/2001
- "The Industry Standard reports that 70% of porn traffic
occurs between 9 and 5, and people in the Eastern time zone account
for the largest number of porn-site hits-30.3%."
- Source: Retzlaff, Eric. "Pornography's Grip Tightens by Way
of Internet." National Catholic Register. 6/13-6/19/00
- "A nationwide survey of 1,031 adults conducted by Zogby
International and Focus on the Family March 8-10, 2000, found that 20
percent of the respondents - which represents as many as 40 million
adults - admitted visiting a sexually-oriented web site. Thirty-seven
percent of males between the ages of 18-24 admitted they had visited
sex sites. Almost 18 percent of those who identified themselves as
Christians and 18 percent of married men also admitted viewing these
sites. According to the Nielsen Net ratings, 17.5 million surfers
visited porn sites from their homes in January; a 40 percent increase
compared with Sepyember of 1999."
- Source: "Zogby/Focus Survey Reveals Shocking Internet Sex
Statistics." Legal Facts: Family Research Council. Vol. 2.
No. 20. 3/30/00
Internet Pornography and Kids
- According to NetValue, children spent 64.9 percent more time on
pornography sites than they did on game sites in September 2000. Over
one quarter (27.5%) of children age 17 and under visited an adult web
site, which represents 3 million unique underage visitors. Of these
minors, 21.2 percent were 14 or younger and 40.2 percent were female.
- Source: "The NetValue Report on Minors Online..." Business
Wire. (taken from study by NetValue, Internet activity
measurement service) December 19,2000.
- "Nearly a third (31%) of kids age 10-17 from households with
computers (24% of all kids 10-17) say they have seen a pornographic
web site.
The Pornography Industry
- Annual rentals and sales of adult videos and DVDs top $4 billion,
and the industry churns out 11,000 titles each year – more than 20
times as many as Hollywood, according to Adult Video News, an adult
industry trade magazine.
- Source: Frammolino, Ralph and P.J. Huffstutter. “The Actress,
the Producer and Their Porn Revolution.” Los Angeles Times
Magazine. 1/6/02
Sex on Television
- "By the time adolescents graduate from high school, they will
have spent 15,000 hours watching television, compared with 12,000
hours spent in the classroom... American media are thought to be the
most sexually suggestive in the Western hemisphere. The average
American adolescent will view nearly 14,000 sexual references per
year, yet only 165 of these references deal with birth control,
self-control, abstinence, or the risk of pregnancy or STDs. In a
recent content analysis, 56% of all programs on American television
were found to contain sexual content. The so-called "family
hour" of prime-time television (8:00 to 9:00 pm) contains on
average more than 8 sexual incidents, which is more than 4 times what
it contained in 1976. Nearly one third of family hour shows contain
sexual references..."
- "Tuesday, the Kaiser Family Foundation's biennial "Sex on
TV" report revealed that TV's sexual content has grown from about
half (56 percent) of all shows in the 1997-98 TV season to two-thirds
(68 percent) last season. Three of four (75 percent) prime-time
network shows included sexual content in 1999-2000, up from two-thirds
(67 percent) in 1997-98.
Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity
- MSNBC.com (www.msnbc.com), the number one Internet news site, has
announced the results of its 2000 Online Cybersex Survey.
The survey results show that almost one in 10 respondents indicate
they are addicted to sex and the Internet. Dr. Alvin Cooper, clinical
director of the San Jose Marital Services and Sexuality Centre in San
Jose, Calif., conducted the online poll, believed to be the largest
Internet study of online sexuality to date. The survey, conducted
during June 2000, received responses from over 38,000 users and found
that people who engage in online sexual activities are spending a
substantial amount of time on these pursuits to break away from their
daily routines, explore fantasies, relieve stress and spice up their
sex lives. MSNBC website surveys are self-selected and unscientific,
not the random samples utilized by polling organizations.
- Source: “MSNBC.com Cybersex Survey Suggests Hundreds of ...”
Business Wire. 7/19/01
- "The National Council on Sexual Addiction Compulsivity
estimated that 6%-8% of Americans are sex addicts, which is 16
million-21.5 million people."
- Source: Cooper, Alvin, Dana E. Putnam, Lynn A. Planchon, and
Sylvain C. Boies. "Online Sexual Compulsivity: Getting
Tangled in the Net." Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity,
6:79-104. (Taken from Amparano, J. "Sex addicts get
help." The Arizona Republic, p. A1. 1999
Sexual Addiction and the Internet
- "A recent study by researchers at Stanford and Duquesne
universities claims at least 200,000 Americans are hopelessly addicted
to E-porn."
Sexually Oriented Businesses
- "Today there are more than 2,400 clubs, according to a popular
strip-club webzine. Annual revenues at some clubs are as high as $8
million, and they employ as many as 200 dancers."
- Source: Dushman, Candi. "'Stop pretending.'" World
Magazine. 8/5/00
Teens and Sex
- "According to the most recent data, 61% of all high school
seniors have had sexual intercourse, about half are currently sexually
active, and 21% have had 4 or more partners Although other developed
countries have similar rates of early sexual intercourse, the United
States has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the world. In
addition to pregnancy, early sexual intercourse carries the risk of
contracting a sexually transmitted disease (STD), including human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Adolescents have the highest STD rates.
Approximately one fourth of sexually active adolescents become
infected with an STD each year, accounting for 3 million cases, and
people under the age of 25 account for two thirds of all STDs in the
United States."
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