The average age of death for women in pornography is 37.
Source: Pornography FAQ (visit the site for more statistical information about the porn industry)
A report from an IT research company in 2002 forecast that profits from pornographic materials transmitted to mobile phones in the USA would reach an annual US$4 billion by 2006, out of a “total porn spend of US$70 billion”.
Source: Sheila Jeffreys, “Beauty and Misogyny”, 2005
In Denmark, pornography is estimated to be the third largest industry in financial terms… the country was the cradle of the ‘sexual revolution’ which decensored pornography and ushered in the commercialization of women’s sexual subordination.
The number of hardcore pornography titles produced increased from 1,300 in 1988 to 12,000 in 2004 and 13,588 in 2005.
The big mainstream pornography distribution companies had considerable incomes.
Playboy earned US$331,100,000 in 2006; Beate Uhse earned US$271 million.
Source: Sheila Jeffreys, “The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade”, 2009
Pornography is now so mainstream that it forms a very lucrative sector of the business of respectable mainstream companies such as General Motors, which sells more pornography films anually than the Hustler chain. General Motors previously owned DirecTV, a pornography distributor, which is now owned by Rupert Murdoch.
Source: Sheila Jeffreys, “The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade”, 2009
In 2007, pornography revenue for the US was estimated at $13.33 billion, which is higher than the total revenue of the media corporations ABC, NBC and CBS.
Top Ten Reviews estimated that the industry was worth US$97.06 billion worldwide, which is more than the combined revenue of the top 10 web technology companies such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon.
Source: Sheila Jeffreys, “The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade”, 2009
In 2007 there were 4.2 million porn websites, which constituted 12% of all websites, and 420 million web pages of pornography.
Internet sales of porn were estimated to be worth $4.9 billion.
Source: Sheila Jeffreys, “The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade”, 2009
The average porn site has 50 terabytes of pornography on it, where 1 terabyte is 500 hours. That means that the average porn site has 25,000 hours of porn, which is about three consecutive years of pornography.
There are approximately 11 and a half million hours of porn online.
20% of it is “teen porn”.
Source: Pornography FAQ using figures above from Jeffreys, 2009.
According to the 2007 study mentioned above, by country, the largest number of pornography webpages originated in
The US, with 244,661,900, followed by
Germany, with 10,030,200
The UK, with 8,506,800
Australia, with 5,655,800
Japan, with 2,700,800
The Netherlands, with 1,883,800
Russia, with 1,080,600
Poland, with 1,049,600
Spain, with 852,800
Source: Sheila Jeffreys, “The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade”, 2009
In the American hotel system, 40 per cent of rooms have pay-per-view pornography, which accounts for 50 per cent of the videos watched. This is worth $200 million per year.
Source: Sheila Jeffreys, “The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade”, 2009
In 2000, phone sex alone generated between $750 million and $1 billion in revenues in the US, with as much as 50 per cent being retained by Us long-distance telephone carriers.
Source: Sheila Jeffreys, “The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade”, 2009
88% of pornography contains physical violence against women.
Source: Gail Dines, “Pornland”, 2010
Around 50% of prostituted women have had pornography made of them.
Source: Pornography FAQ
By age 14, 90% of boys have sought and masturbated to pornography.
Source: Gail Dines, “Pornland”, 2010