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Disturbing facts from the Crimes Against Children Research Centre

It can specifically identify instances of:

• Bullying
• Sexual and racial harassment
• Suspected predator and paedophile activity
• Attempted access to personal information

Sexually explicit and pornographic material Dangers associated with:

• Offensive web sites
• Chat rooms
• Instant messaging
• E-mail and document attachments
• Attempts at encrypting and decrypting documents

30% of teenage girls said they had been sexually harassed in a chat room

86% of the girls surveyed said they could chat online without their parents' knowledge.

Girl Scout Research Institute recent survey

• 4 in 10 internet users stumble across explicit material - Consumers Association
• 1 in 33 youth's received an aggressive sexual solicitation in the past year where a predator asked to meet them somewhere
• 77% of targets for online predators were age 14 or older, 22% were ages 10 to 13

Crimes Against Children Research Centre

• The Statistics regarding Pornograghy and Children (Provided by Crimes Against Children Research Centre) At least one adult crosses state lines every day to meet with a child they have developed a relationship with online.
• One in 33 youths received an aggressive sexual solicitation in the past year, i.e. a predator asked a young person to meet somewhere, called a young person on the phone, and/or sent the young person correspondence, money, or gifts through the U.S. Postal Service.
• 77 percent of the targets for online predators were age 14 or older, 22 percent were ages 10 to 13.
• In 10% of incidents, the perpetrators asked to meet the youth somewhere; in 6% the youth received regular mail, in 2% a telephone call, in 1% money or gifts. In one instance, the youth received a travel ticket.
• 6% were threatened or harassed when online.
• Less than 10% of sexual solicitations were reported to authorities such as a law-enforcement agency, an internet service provider, or a hotline.
• These incidents distressed approximately 25% of young people who reported them.
• Approximately 20% received a sexual solicitation or approach over the internet.
• Virtually all (97%) of the perpetrators were persons the youth originally met online. In 65% of these incidents, the youth met the person who solicited them in a chat room; in 24% of episodes the meeting occurred through

Instant Messages.

• 25% had an unwanted exposure to pictures of naked people or people having sex.

Disturbing facts and figures

Other related Pornography statistics:

• Approximately 40 million people in the United States are sexually involved with the Internet Exposing Porn: Science, Religion, and the New Addiction, Paul Strand. Christian Broadcasting Network, 2004.
• One in four children who use the Internet are exposed to unwanted sexual material
• Your Children & Pornography: A guide for Parents, Tom Buford. Tommera Press, 2001.
• 2.5 billion emails per day are pornographic
• Pornography Statistics 2003, Family Safe Media. www.familysafemedia.com, 2003.
• 25 percent of all search engine requests are pornography related
• Internet Pornography Statistics: 2003, David C. Bissette, Psy.D. www.healthymind.com, 2004.
• Sex sites on the Web generate at least $1 billion per year in revenue
• Wall Street Meets Pornography. New York Times, 23 October, 2000.
• 72 million Internet users visit pornography web sites per year
• Pornography Statistics 2003. Internet Filter Review. www.internetfilterreview.com, 2003.
• 94 percent of Americans believe a ban on Internet pornography should be legal
• Statistics on Internet Pornography. www.levelbest.com
• 79 percent of Americans say the government should do something about the potential for dangerous strangers
• to make contact with children
• Survey Shows Widespread Enthusiasm for High Technology. NPR Online.
• http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/poll/technology/, 1744.
• Sex is the number 1 topic searched on the internet
• Overdosing on Porn, Rebecca Hagelin. www.worldandi.com, March, 2004.
• Americans spend $10 billion per year on pornography
• Overdosing on Porn, Rebecca Hagelin. www.worldandi.com, March, 2004.
• There are 800 million rentals each year of adult videos and DVDs
• Overdosing on Porn, Rebecca Hagelin. www.worldandi.com, March, 2004.
• 11,000 adult movies are produced each year
• Overdosing on Porn, Rebecca Hagelin. www.worldandi.com, March, 2004.
• How One man Unleashed the porn Plague, Andy Butcher. Charisma Magazine, November 2003.
• 34 percent of churchgoing women said they have intentionally visited porn web sites online
• Internet porn a guy thing? Not really, online rating service says, Mark O'Keefe. The Charlotte Observer.
• More than 30% of 1,500 surveyed companies have terminated employees for inappropriate use of the Internet,
• while only 37.5% of companies use filtering software
• Websense Incorporated and The Center for Internet Studies, 2000.
• Cable companies brought in revenue of $177 million from sexually explicit pay-per-view programming
• No Big Surge in Sex Programs is Expected From Cable Ruling, Jim Rutenberg. The New York Times, 24 May,
• 2000.
• Porn site architects were among the first to perfect full-streaming video and audio on the Web and among the
• first to persuade apprehensive consumers to divulge credit-card numbers to someone unknown to them on the
• Internet, which developed e-commerce
• The Architects of Porn. VARBusiness, 28 April 2000. .
• 82 percent of adult Americans surveyed in March 2004 said that the Federal laws against Internet obscenity
• should vigorously enforced.
• Americans STILL want federal obscenity laws enforced! The Morality in Media Newsletter, June, 2004.
• Sexual content (pornography) over cell phones will generate over $1.5 billion in Western Europe, as the
• Vodafone Group introduces and provides risque content to customers phones In Europe, Cell Phone Profits
• Go Up as Clothes Come Off, Jennifer L. Schenker. The New York Times, 4 May, 2004.