Pornography Statistics, News and Facts Around the World

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Australia: (12/08/2006)
"But local tastes nonetheless vary widely. Japanese porn features schoolgirls, often bound. Egyptian porn before Nasser featured local beauties and voyeurism, but now focuses on fair-haired and pale-skinned women, sometimes with forced sex as a theme. Egyptian-born Sheik Hilaly, in Sydney, may have been verbalizing a latent sense of otherness and mistaking it for insight."

http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2006/12/kids-swamped-with-hard-core-porn-says.html


Cambodia  (1/11/2007)
"UNICEF is outraged that children in Cambodia are being used in pornography. Child pornography is a gross violation of children's rights, and UNICEF condemns any act where adults coerce or influence children to engage in sexual activity," said Marc Vergara, a spokesman for UNICEF's office in Cambodia."

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/070111/kyodo/d8mj1d5o0.html

http://xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=16514&searchstring=porn%20industry%20billion

http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2005/Art/1006/news2.php

http://denmark.dk/portal/page?_pageid=374,478006&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL#545708


Denmark (2006)
"There is nothing to stop young children from buying porn magazines in shops, even though it is illegal to sell porn to minors."

http://www.cphpost.dk/get/96744.html

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France (2005)
"France, which began airing hard-core pornography in 1984 on Canal Plus, that nation’s first subscription cable service, now has five broadcast, cable and satellite channels airing 103 X-rated movies per month. When pay-per-view is included, the count reaches 943 X-rated movies a month."

http://www.cwfa.org/articles/758/CFI/cfreport/index.htm

http://www.womanhonorthyself.com/?cat=7&paged=2


Germany: (1/08/2007)
"Child Pornography on the Rise"

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2303382,00.html


Germany (11/10/2006)
"Sex and the Supermarket"

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/11/08/feature.sex/index.html


Germany (2004)
"Ranked Number 1 in Porn"

http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?channel_id=1&story_id=9029


Germany (2003)
"Germany is the top destination country for trafficking in women and children for prostitution."

http://www.protectionproject.org/germany.doc

http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/IES/hongkong.html#3

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India (1/20/2007)
"Indeed, the problem is a complex one. On the one hand, there is the issue of porn -- soft or hard-core. Such films, DVDs, VCDs, cassettes and print material are smuggled into the country, clearly violating the laws governing possession and distribution of what is termed 'obscene' material."

http://www.boloji.com/wfs/wfs067.htm

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAA/biennial-conference/2006/Barker-Thomas-ASAA2006.pdf


Indonesia:  (10/31/2006)
"During her period in power, as part of a larger global media trend, Indonesia too saw the rise of ‘infotainment’ as the preferred content of most newspapers, radio and television stations. Businessmen who knew little about the media business took to publishing soft porn magazines or tabloids featuring fledging actress wearing little more than a seductive expression on their faces. They did roaring business."

http://www.asiamediaforum.org/node/572


Indonesia:  (4/19/2006)
"After a raid last week, during which the West Jakarta Police confiscated more than a million pornographic DVDs and VCDs worth Rp 1.5 billion (US$166,666), explicit films of sex acts continue to entice buyers to retail center Glodok. Despite some worries there will be more raids, hard-core porn DVDs are selling like hot cakes."

http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/religion/article.asp?parentid=43506


Indonesia: (4/4/2006)
''Pornography is available in the streets cheap. Five VCDs could be brought for 10,000 rupiah (little more than one US dollar) anyone can buy even children,'' .

http://www.asiamediaforum.org/node/412


Indonesia:  (2/06/2006)
"Starting small with a 600 million rupiah (S$105,000) investment, he put out 8,000 copies of EHm in December 2004, targeting readers in Jakarta mostly. Within three months, the magazine's circulation climbed to 35,000, with readers in their 20s and early 30s, in cities across the archipelago.

Like most other girlie magazines, EHm's earnings are driven by sales, not advertisements."

http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=38486


Indoensia (Feb 2006)
"Indonesia already has a thriving black market in hardcore pornographic films, including bestiality titles, thanks to the support of corrupt police. Pirated hardcore pornography magazines are also available from certain street vendors. It’s quite easy for members of the nation’s “young generation” to purchase such salacious films and magazines for no more than Rp5,000 a title. That makes them somewhat more accessible than Playboy Indonesia, which will sell for Rp50,000."

http://asiapundit.com/category/indonesia/


Indonesia: (1/26/2006)
"In the city's Glodok electronics center, pirated pornographic DVDs are often in plain view and the sellers yell out the movie names to passersby.  Then there's the city's news tabloids, full of smutty stories, phone sex advertisements and -- more disturbingly -- lurid accounts of domestic abuse, incest, rape and murder.  This trashy soft-core porn won't take the bulge out of your wallet, prices are as cheap as Rp 1,000 (around 10 US cents) a poster, while the DVDs, newspapers and magazines sell for a little more."

http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=37934


Indonesia: (1/26/2006)
"The upscale girlie magazines are not cheap; both FHM and Matra sell for Rp 28,500 (about US$3) an issue.  FHM managing editor Richard Sam Bera said his publication enjoyed good sales since making its debut in 2003, with monthly circulation from 60,000 to 75,000 copies nationwide."

http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=37633

http://xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=8809&searchstring=porn%20industry%20billion

http://www.justice.govt.nz/pubs/reports/2005/sex-industry-in-nz-literature-review/index.html

http://www.thelocal.se/3641/20060425/


Sweden (2005)
"Sweden is both a big producer and a big consumer of pornography. It is a huge industry"

http://www.sweden.se/templates/cs/CommonPage____13325.aspx


Sweden (2005)
"It's significant and shocking that so many people in our country are interested in watching children being raped and in certain cases tortured," she said to SvD.

http://www.thelocal.se/2571/20051125/


Sweden (2005)
"More than 20,000 attempts are made daily in Sweden to access child pornography, according to police and the Swedish branch of advocacy network ECPAT."

http://www.financialmirror.com/more_news.php?id=2575&type=news

http://www.asiamediaforum.org/node/600


Thailand:  (8/16/2005)
"Tune into any of the morning news shows, and what you get is the same pattern of presentation that now dominates all of the television screens. Viewers are fed staples of news commonly found in tabloid newspapers – sex, crime and scandal.

http://www.asiamediaforum.org/node/269


Thailand: (05/16/2005)
“Media headlines are filled with violence and sex and to boot, they always run articles on things such as three-footed cows or oddly-shaped bananas on lottery-draw days,” he added...

http://www.asiamediaforum.org/node/109


 

http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/children/rapporteur/Ukraine%20Gov%20translation.doc


Ukraine (2003)
"In a raid on the company, SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) employees seized 30,000 video cassettes containing pornography, worth 1 million UAH."

http://www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/projects/monitoring/Ukraine/Situational_Analysis_Research__Ukraine_March2004.pdf

UK (5/30/2006)
LONDON — "Adult webmasters take note: The fastest-growing market for online porn is Great Britain, according to a Nielsen NetRatings study, which found that U.K.-based users employ the search term “porn” more than any other group in the English-speaking world."

http://xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=15216&searchstring=porn%20industry%20billion