The Stats On Internet Pornography

[hammervice]

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[name_1]

LOL, glad to know we are making a difference!

 

[name_1]

Interesting to see the stats though --there seems to be so little discussion or awareness of this massive phenomenon.

Is there a need to discuss it? I think its one of the information that is good to know, not nice to share...:blushing:

 

[LuiM]

The highest online porn subscription rate in Utah???

This smells more like anti-mormon propaganda.

:rofl:

But to be honest: I thought these numbers were actually quite higher!

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And one more thing: The only thing which disturbs me here is Nr. 11 which in my opinion should not be included in porn statistics, because CP (although we call it "child pornography") has actually nothing to do with pornography at all! It's a crime and it's abuse. It should be included in crime statistics. Not porn statistics.

In a free world pornography is legal business, while "CP" is a serious criminal activity. The term "child pornography" in general is very misleading because it sounds like a kind of sub-genre of pornography, which in people's perception might falsely hint to assumption of some kind of legal status of "CP". Which of course - we all agree - is absolutely not true! "CP" is not pornography! It has nothing to do with pornography as movie genre! It's child-abuse. That's all it is. Even author of this image has put the term in quotes.

The same way as animal-porn is not actually porn although this term is often used. It's animal abuse. It has nothing to do with porn as genre, nor sub-genre.

So mixing statistics of illegal child abuse web searches and pornography as such makes this statistics look really lousy and porn consumers like really really bad people. I don't oppose all the data presented here, I just oppose the way this data is presented.

I wouldn't be surprised if I found out this image was made or been widely supported by right wing organizations. It's not a coincidence that a huge silhouette of the church dominates the whole image at the bottom as a majestic conclusion of this "devastating" stats - so that every average American would feel - precisely how the author if this project wanted and imagined -> miserably and guilty.

So this is another example on how a mixture of facts and ideology if you mix them wisely can serve as a great manipulative propaganda for masses.

 

[bodle]

this is interesting i guess...

 

[XMan101]

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(The church picture was just a graphic depiction of Sunday, like the Turkey symbol for Thanksgiving. It doesn't seem like a religious or political website)

 

[Irishman25]

i like it
visual graphics with interesting facts
wonder what the file sharing stats are lol

 

[LuiM]

(The church picture was just a graphic depiction of Sunday, like the Turkey symbol for Thanksgiving. It doesn't seem like a religious or political website)

Could be that this really has no connection to religion or right wing organizations.

But the way the facts are presented here is still quite tendentious. It raises doubts. In my opinion this is most definitely made by porn dislikers if not right wingers.

And depicting Sunday with a church symbol in my opinion is odd and more likely made by religious people than anyone else. I wouldn't say that majority of Americans today still connects Sunday with a church. (Percentage of people who attend church regularly in USA is estimated around 20%).

From the Online Schools website -

Online Schools is education made fun. We're a bunch of guys who spend our free time trying to come up with informative and engaging informational graphics. Its our way of making the world a better place.

This is a labor of love - we hope you enjoy it (and if you do, let us know, it'll make us happy).

There are numerous Christian organizations in USA which show no connection to religion whatsoever or even actively try to hide it. For example NARTH which presents itself as a pure scientific organization (National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality) but it's actually quasi-scientific Christian organization. On it's index page there's no connection to Christianity at all.

 

[bolhaisa]

interesting

 

[LuiM]

... in truth though, a lot of people dislike porn.

I can agree with you on this. And the stats-picture presented here in this thread shows exactly what you're saying: "A lot of people dislike porn."

Although the picture tries to say the opposite and it is quite successful in this because everyone gets a scaring feeling on how big and bad this business is. But in fact all the data presented actually show how relatively small all the numbers are - comparing to non-porn web usage.

That's why I called the image manipulative.

 

[joesz]

Extremely interesting. Especially the Utah thing. Not exactly sure what it means, but it is interesting. Really fun to read although I'm sure the compliers of the data didn't mean for it to be "fun".

 

[smallsleepyrascalcat]

Extremely interesting. Especially the Utah thing. Not exactly sure what it means, but it is interesting. Really fun to read although I'm sure the compliers of the data didn't mean for it to be "fun".

As far as I know, Utah is seen as a cvery religious state, being the heart of the Mormon Church.
And as Mormons, they should be against porn. But as you can see, they seem to like it

 

[blammy]

What is this Porn thing you all speak of.. ?

 

[Irishman25]

What is this Porn thing you all speak of.. ?

LMAO

 

[Irishman25]

ur jaw dropped?? leaving ur mouth wide open?? oh my my my
whatever shall i do lol lol