SEXUAL IMAGES AND SELLING SEX

Online Pornography
• Industry is growing and worth approximately $1
billion in 2003.
• Estimated that one-third of all Internet users visit
sexual websites.
• Viewers can be recreational users (enter sites
due to curiosity) at-risk users (those increasingly
drawn to increase usage) compulsive users (who
spend over 11 hours per week engaging in online
sexual activities.
What the Public Thinks About Pornography
• The majority of the general public wants to ban
violent pornography and feels that pornography
can lead to a loss of respect for women, acts of
violence, and rape.
• Research suggests that even people who felt that
pornography had negative effects on others were
opposed to regulating it.