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One in five men, or 20%, admit to watching porn online at work.

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About 13% of women do.

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Comcast Cable accidentally aired 37 seconds of porn during Super Bowl XLIII.

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There is currently no diagnosis of pornography addiction in the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

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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.

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In 2001, a German hacker from Dresden streamed a sex channel on a supermarket's big screen.

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Porn was mistakenly aired for an entire 10 minutes in the background during a Swedish news report on Syria in January 2013.

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The size of the porn industry is around $100 billion.

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Between $10 billion and $12 billion of that comes from the United States.

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The word “pornography” is from the Greek words porne (prostitute) and graphos (to write or to record).

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The porn industry has seen an 80% reduction in DVD sale caused by free porn sites.

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Porn revenue is larger than all of the most profitable professional sport franchises combined.

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There have been 22 reported HIV cases in the porn industry in the United States.

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Twelve percent of websites on the Internet are pornographic.

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Over 40 million Americans are regular visitors to porn sites.

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One in three porn visitors is a woman.

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While viewing porn, men tend to focus on a woman’s eyes and lips over breasts or genitals.

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Nearly one in four Internet search queries is about porn. That’s 68 million a day.

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Over 35% of all Internet downloads are pornographic.

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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.

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There are around 42 million porn websites.

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Film production of pornography began immediately after the invention of the motion picture in 1895.

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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.

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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.

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After WWI, porn movies were called “stag movies” and could be seen only at men-only parties.

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While 25%–33% of those who watch Internet porn are women, they make up only 2% of paying porn site subscribers.

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On average, 50% of hotel guests order porn on their televisions.

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In North Korea and Iran, producing and distributing porn is punishable by death.