Here’s some interesting facts I just happened upon…

Here’s some interesting facts I just happened upon while looking at (of all places) MySpace. They are all related to pornography, but that was the nature of the documentary:

• 12% of all websites are pornographic;
• 25% of all search engine requests have to do with porn;
• 35% of all downloads in a day are pornographic in nature;
• Every second 28, 258 people are viewing porn on the Internet;
• $89.00 is spent on pornography every second;
• 266 new porn sites appear in the Internet every day;
• Sex is the most searched word on the Internet;
• The United States received $2.84 billion from porn revenue in ’06;
• Only 72% of Internet porn users are male;
• Surprisingly, 70% of Internet porn traffic occurs during the working day hours of 9am – 5pm. Obviously, for those unemployed and not exactly looking for a job, this is the ideal time when you’re brother is out with his friend or attending job interviews;
• There is an estimated 372 million porn pages out there on the Internets:
  • 3% produced by the UK;
  • 4% produced by Germany;
  • 89% produced by the US;
• The adult website with the highest traffic is AdultFriendFinder.com
• The following countries have banned pornography:
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Iran
  • Bahrain
  • Egypt
  • UAE
  • Kuwait
  • Malaysia
  • Indonesia
  • Singapore
  • Kenya
  • India
  • Cuba
  • China
• The most visited websites daily:
  • #1 MSN.com – 220 million visits
  • #4 YouTube.com – 196 million (this I would have never guessed. Now I know why it’s worth so much)
  • #49 AdultFriendFinder.com – 7.2 million
  • #145 NYTimes.com – 4.1 million (Hahaha!)

I actually find a lot of those figures surprising, like the revenue one. How hypocritical is the government, espousing the moral word of the Church and what have you and then raking in $2.84 billion a year from the very business that they would have you believe is corrupting the

Thomas.