The following statistics, from both secular and religious sources reveal that porn is now as American as Apple Pie, and has found a place in every corner of our society, including the church. The statistics on porn use among Christians are near the end.

* At 13.3 billion, the 2006 revenues of the sex and porn industry in the U.S. are bigger than the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball combined. Worldwide sex industry sales for 2006 are reported to be 97 billion. To put this in perspective, Microsoft, who sells the operating system used on most of the computers in the world (in addition to other software) reported sales of 44.8 billion in 2006.
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* US Sex Industry breakdown for 2006:
Video Sales and Rentals: 3.62 billion
Internet: 2.84 billion
Cable/PPV/In-room/Mobile phone sex: 2.19 billion
Exotic Dance Clubs: 2 billion
Novelties: 1.73 billion
Magazines: .95 billion
Total - 13.3 billion.
2005 Sex Industry sales - 12.62 billion
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* 60% of all website visits are sexual in nature
MSNBC Survey 2000

* The No. 1 search term used at search engine sites is the word “sex”. Users searched for “sex” more than other terms such as “games,” “travel,” “music,” “jokes,” “cars,” “weather,” “health” and “jobs” combined. The study also found that “pornography/porno” was the fourth-most searched for subject.
Alexa Research

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