Speak Up Project

I was surfing the list of blogs that I read today to find out more about what’s going on in the blogosphere. I don’t always look at stuff pertinent to the subject matter of Speak Up, but often find things relative. Sometimes in places I never knew were opinionated about our subject.

Good Magazine put out a video that’s highly provocative about Internet porn. It’s basically a girl who’s written porn stats all over her body. As the camera pans around in suggestive ways, you find stats revealing the reality of Internet porn. Let’s get more of these out there.

12% of all websites are pornographic

25% of all search engine requests are pornographic

35% of all Internet downloads are pornographic in nature

Every second, 28,258 internet users are viewing pornography

Every second, 89$ is being spend on Internet porn

Every day, 266 new pornographic websites appear on the Internet

“Sex” is the most searched word on the Internet

U.S. revenue from porn in 2006: $2.84 billion

72% of Internet porn users are men, 28% are women.

70% of all Internet porn traffic occurs during the 9-5 workday.

There are an estimated 372 million porn web pages, 3% produced by the U.K., 4% produced by Germany, 89% produced by the U.S.

Shocking, no? Well not really because everyone sees it. It’s really in your face. Wonder what the stats are on how parents view these stats? I’d like to see those myself.

Here’s the video… drives a point home. No nudity, but it’s close.