28 Amazing Facts About Porn
Featured 03/23/2015
in
Sexy
Educate yourself about the interesting world of adult films.
- List View
- Player View
- Grid View
-
1. One in five men, or 20%, admit to watching porn online at work.
-
2. About 13% of women do.
-
3. Comcast Cable accidentally aired 37 seconds of porn during Super Bowl XLIII.
-
4. There is currently no diagnosis of pornography addiction in the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
-
5. The 1988, People vs. Freeman court cases stated that adult film production, as long as it involves consenting adults, was protected as free speech under the First Amendment.
-
6. In 2001, a German hacker from Dresden streamed a sex channel on a supermarket's big screen.
-
7. Porn was mistakenly aired for an entire 10 minutes in the background during a Swedish news report on Syria in January 2013.
-
8. The size of the porn industry is around $100 billion.
-
9. Between $10 billion and $12 billion of that comes from the United States.
-
10. The word “pornography” is from the Greek words porne (prostitute) and graphos (to write or to record).
-
11. The porn industry has seen an 80% reduction in DVD sale caused by free porn sites.
-
12. Porn revenue is larger than all of the most profitable professional sport franchises combined.
-
13. There have been 22 reported HIV cases in the porn industry in the United States.
-
14. Twelve percent of websites on the Internet are pornographic.
-
15. Over 40 million Americans are regular visitors to porn sites.
-
16. One in three porn visitors is a woman.
-
17. While viewing porn, men tend to focus on a woman’s eyes and lips over breasts or genitals.
-
18. Nearly one in four Internet search queries is about porn. That’s 68 million a day.
-
19. Over 35% of all Internet downloads are pornographic.
-
20. According to a study by the Journal of Economic Perspective, Utah had the most per capita porn subscriptions. Montana had the lowest rate of porn subscriptions.
-
21. There are around 42 million porn websites.
-
22. Film production of pornography began immediately after the invention of the motion picture in 1895.
-
23. The San Fernando Valley has been a pioneering region for producing porn since the 1970s, and a large amount of porn is still filmed there. In Europe, Budapest is considered the industry hub.
-
24. Pornography is different from erotica. Erotica portrays sexuality in high-art, which focuses on feelings and emotions. Pornography focuses on sex in a sensational manner and emphasizes the physical act to arouse a quick reaction.
-
25. After WWI, porn movies were called “stag movies” and could be seen only at men-only parties.
-
26. While 25%–33% of those who watch Internet porn are women, they make up only 2% of paying porn site subscribers.
-
27. On average, 50% of hotel guests order porn on their televisions.
-
28. In North Korea and Iran, producing and distributing porn is punishable by death.
- REPLAY GALLERY
-
- 28 Amazing Facts About Porn
- NEXT GALLERY
-
- Things That Are Very Hard to Argue With
One in five men, or 20%, admit to watching porn online at work.
28/28
1/28
Categories:
Sexy
23 Comments