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FACTS ABOUT PORNOGRAPHY
FACT: In 1996, Americans spent more than $8 billion on hardcore videos, peep shows, live sex acts, adult cable programming, sexual devices, computer porn, and sex magazines - an amount much larger than Hollywood's domestic box office receipts and larger than all the revenues generated by the rock and country music recordings.
FACT: 85% of revenues from pornographic magazines and videos goes into the pockets of organized crime, much of it untaxed.
FACT: An estimated 70% of all pornography (magazines and videos) ends up in the hands of children, with potential adverse long term effects on their sexual development.
FACT: A study by FBI researches of 36 serial killers revealed that 29 were attracted to pornography and incorporated it into their sexual activity, which included serial rape-murder.
FACT: In a study of 43 pedophiles, the Los Angeles Police Department found adult or child pornography (magazines, photos, or videos) involved in 10% of the cases investigated.
FACT: States with the highest readership of "men's magazines" have the highest incidence of reported rape.
FACT: 86% of all rapists admits to regular use of pornographic scenes in commission of sex crimes.
FACT: A woman is raped in the U.S. every 46 seconds, according to reported attacks. Most studies suggest that only one in ten cases of rape is ever reported.
FACT: Forester Research found that porn Web Sites earned $1 billion in 1998 and will earn $1.5 billion in 1999.
FACT: The research company Relevant Knowledge found that 9.6 million users, (about 15 percent Web users), logged on to the most popular cybersex sites during the month of April, 1998 alone.
FACT: The divorce rate is two out-of-every three marriages in the U.S
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