2008 Woodie Awards
Statistics reveal full reach of pornography
Simon Kelly
Issue date: 4/13/07 Section: Forum
Now, if I know anything about Guilford College students, it's that good old-fashioned clean living and family values are amongst their highest priorities. The only thing more immaculate than their thoughts are their bedspreads, free of all bodily fluids, except of course for tears, tears of joy. See, I know you kids. You like to keep your noses clean, because I mean, shucks, what else are tissues good for, right?
Well, dearest Guilford, I have some sobering news to bear to you. Not everybody uses tissues for nasal drip any more. Indeed, as a recently released statistical study on the prevalence of pornography for 2006 would suggest, tissues hardly even make it to people's noses anymore.
This ubiquitous reorientation of the role of the tissue box is directly related, of course, to the gross amount of revenue that the porn industry generates, as in the United States alone, over $13 billion was culled last year. This puts us proudly in fourth place for the biggest distributor and producer of pornography in the world, following Japan with $19.98 billion in revenue, South Korea with $25.76 billion, and China with pornographers collectively heaving in a whopping $27.4 billion.
These statistics are phenomenal for a number of reasons, namely because it is evident now, more than ever, how much time people spend thinking about sex, yet tragically enough, fail to reach the stage of intercourse. For instance, the study claims that for every second that goes by, "372 Internet users are typing in adult search terms into search engines," adding to the 28,258 users that were already looking at porn, amounting to $3,075.64.
But, what exactly has promoted such a high demand for pornography in the countries listed above? When artificial sex is in such abundance, does it serve to arouse or curb a culture's sexual appetite?
With China's huge population, it is no surprise why so much revenue from pornography is culled there. Perhaps what this suggests is that the Chinese embrace pornography as an alternative to sex, given the country's overpopulation.
Well, dearest Guilford, I have some sobering news to bear to you. Not everybody uses tissues for nasal drip any more. Indeed, as a recently released statistical study on the prevalence of pornography for 2006 would suggest, tissues hardly even make it to people's noses anymore.
This ubiquitous reorientation of the role of the tissue box is directly related, of course, to the gross amount of revenue that the porn industry generates, as in the United States alone, over $13 billion was culled last year. This puts us proudly in fourth place for the biggest distributor and producer of pornography in the world, following Japan with $19.98 billion in revenue, South Korea with $25.76 billion, and China with pornographers collectively heaving in a whopping $27.4 billion.
These statistics are phenomenal for a number of reasons, namely because it is evident now, more than ever, how much time people spend thinking about sex, yet tragically enough, fail to reach the stage of intercourse. For instance, the study claims that for every second that goes by, "372 Internet users are typing in adult search terms into search engines," adding to the 28,258 users that were already looking at porn, amounting to $3,075.64.
But, what exactly has promoted such a high demand for pornography in the countries listed above? When artificial sex is in such abundance, does it serve to arouse or curb a culture's sexual appetite?
With China's huge population, it is no surprise why so much revenue from pornography is culled there. Perhaps what this suggests is that the Chinese embrace pornography as an alternative to sex, given the country's overpopulation.
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