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Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

How Much of the Internet is Actually for Porn

Author:     JULIE RUVOLO
Source:     Forbes
Publication Date:     19-Sep-11
 Link: How Much of the Internet is Actually for Porn
Stephan:   This tells us a lot about ourselves in an area that many people find it uncomfortable to talk about. If you are like me you will find that your ideas about porn usage on the net are largely wrong and out of date. What I found particularly interesting is the information in the last question about Republican states having higher porn subscription rates than Democratic states. Reading this I thought about the research data showing that in Republican states, where a Theocratic political vision obtains, there is more violence, more divorce, more physical spousal abuse, a higher incidence of teen pregnancies, a higher rate of STDs, and more usage of psychiatric drugs.

Starting September 7, .XXX domains are for sale. (That is, if you own a porn site or a trademark to protect – the rest of us have to wait till December 6 and hope nobody scoops our name first).

It’s like the internet is growing up a bit. There’s certainly enough porn to justify .XXX, if .biz gets its own extension.

But the arrival of .XXX begs the question:

How much of the internet is actually for porn?

Plug the question into Google and you reach an abandoned corner of the net: an article from 2005, a mess of answers from 37-80% and the Avenue Q Wikipedia page.

Surely there must be a better way.

So I asked Ogi Ogas, one of the amazingly nerdy neuroscientists behind A Billion Wicked Thoughts, who says he and co-author Sai Gaddam are sitting on what they think is ‘the most comprehensive collection of porn-use stats on the web.

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