http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3083001
Brief report summarizing statistics about the growth of pornographic sites on the Web, with the number of pages reaching some 260 million and the number of serving sites amount to some 12% of the total.
Regardless of one's position on freedom of information and the desirability of limited interference with the activities of consulting adults, statistics such as these must give an observer pause. Connect to this the problems implicit in the educational impact of this amount of pornography, and one might be impelled to some form of action.
On a personal note, most of the porn sites I have seen are positively creepy, and I would no more give these people my credit card information than I would flush $100 bills down the toilet, so I do wonder how they can make a profit. The very proliferation of such sites suggests strongly that they do make a profit, and that fact in itself is a disturbing thought on a multiplicity of levels.
Interestingly enough, according to these statistics, over 40% of those accessing pornography at work are women.
Posted by jho at October 8, 2003 11:30 AM