. . . . . . . . . The U.S. porn industry’s revenue increased by one-thousand times between 1972 and 1996. (Not For Sale and Court TV) . . . . . . . . . Video porn rentals multiplied ten-fold between 1985 and 2000 (Ibid.) . . . . . . . . . During the first Gulf War, pilots from the USS John F. Kennedy reportedly watched porn videos “to help get them pumped up to drop bombs.” (Howard Kurtz, 1991, quoted by R. Jensen) . . . . . . . . . Only one of eight major US cable companies does not offer a porn channel. (NY Times Magazine, 2001) . . . . . . . . .The United States ranks 17th in the world in gender equity. (World Economic Forum) . . . . . . . . . Reported incidents of sexual assault in Japan doubled between 1996 and 2002. (National Police Agency of Japan) . . . . . . . . . A 1997 survey of Japanese men reported that 50% had used a prostitute at least once in their lives. (Seiya Morita in Not For Sale) . . . . . . . . . Budapest is currently the epicenter of European pornography production. (Donna Hughes in Not For Sale) . . . . . . . . . The death rate of women working as prostitutes in Canada is 40 times higher than the general Canadian population. (Special Committee on Pornography and Prostitution) . . . . . . . . . An estimated 60% of tourists who visit Thailand are sex tourists. (cited in Waring, Counting for Nothing) . . . . . . . . . Researchers have found children as young as 12 working in strip clubs in the Upper Midwest. (Sherry Lee Short in Not for Sale) . . . . . . . . . A women’s crisis center serving Wahperton, ND reported a 96% increase in domestic violence and sexual assault referrals after a second strip club opened in that town. (Ibid.) . . . . . . . . . Five different strip clubs cater to rural Aberdeen, SD (pop. 25,000) (Ibid.). . . . . . . . . 6,000 porn movies are released each year (New York Post, 2003) . . . . . . . . .You would have to watch 16 per day to see them all . . . . . . . . . Increase in porn releases since 1991: 500% (US News & World Report, 1997) . . . . . . . . . Porn rentals by men watching alone: 71% (George Magazine) . . . . . . . . . Porn rentals by hetero couples: 19% (Ibid.) . . . . . . . . . Porn rentals by lesbian couples: 1% (Ibid.) 1996 profits from porn video rentals and sales: $4.2 billion (Newsweek) . . . . . . . . . Hard-core porn outlets now outnumber McDonald's restaurants in America. (NCPCF) . . . . . . . . .25 million Americans spend 1 -10 hours per week with online porn. (MSNBC, 2000) . . . . . . . . . 4.7 million spend more than 11 hours per week. (Ibid) . . . . . . . . . # of strip clubs in the US in 1997: 2,500. . . . . . . . . Strip clubs doubled in number between 1987 and 1992 (US News & World Report) . . . . . . . . . A well-run strip club can earn $5 million a year. (Ibid.) . . . . . . . . . Average age of a male's first porn exposure in 1985: 11 years. (Bryant, 1985) . . . . . . . . . Today, 9 out of 10 children between the ages of 8 and 16 have seen Internet porn. (LSE) . . . . . . . . . In 1992, 29% of boys called porn their "most significant source" of sex education. (Check & Maxwell) . . . . . . . . . 1 in 5 children in a chat-room has been contacted by an adult. (Detective K. Akerman, 2002) . . . . . . . . . 20,000 images of child porn are posted online each week (NSPCC, 2003) . . . . . . . . . In 1998, America was the world's largest consumer of child pornography. (Bangkok Post, 1998) . . . . . . . . . 87% of molesters of girls, and 77% of the molesters of boys regularly used hard-core porn. (Marshall, 1988.) . . . . . . . . . % of male college students who said they might rape a woman "if they could be assured of getting away with it": 25 to 30% (Donnerstein, 1983) . . . . . . . . . % of college students who said they might after watching 10 hours of rape porn: 57% (Ibid.) In 1983, Alaska and Nevada had the highest rates of porn mag readership and the highest rape rate. (Baron & Strauss) . . . . . . . . . Rape in America has risen 500% since 1960. (National Victim Center/National Coalition for the Protection of Women and Families) . . . . . . . . . In New York City, murder rates dropped to a 40-year lows, while rape rates have steadily increased. (NY Daily News, 2002) . . . . . . . . . 81% of serial killers interviewed by the FBI named hard-core porn their "highest sexual interest." (Final Report of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography, 1986) . . . . . . . . . A 1985 survey found that 50% - 66% of convicted rapists had used porn regularly. (Abel) . . . . . . . . . A similar survey done 3 years later found it was now 86% (Marshall) 56% of the rapists in the second study said they imitated favorite porn scenes during their crimes. . . . . . . . . . Porn was used before, or during, 41% of rapes in Michigan between 1956-1979. (Detective Darrell Pope) . . . . . . . . . In Phoenix, neighborhoods with a porn shop had 40% more property crime and 500% more sex offenses than neighborhoods without. (U.S. Department of Justice, 1988) . . . . . . . . . After 150 porn shops in Oklahoma City were closed, the city's rape rate declined 27% over 5 years. (NCSP website) . . . . . . . . . Elsewhere in Oklahoma, reported rapes were up 19%. (Ibid.) . . . . . . . . . Every single strippers surveyed by Kelly Holsopple in 1999 said she'd experienced physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal harassment, and propositions for prostitution while on the job. (Holsopple) . . . . . . . . . The word pornography is derived from ancient Greek, meaning "writing about whores." (Dworkin)