Over 100 quick stats and findings from an ever-growing body of research that details the effects of porn for individuals, relationships, and society.
Approximately 91.5% of men and 60.2% of women report consuming porn in the past month, according to a 2020 study.
While most porn consumers are generally unconcerned about the potential mistreatment of porn performers, about 70% of porn consumers who do learn about mistreatment in the porn industry take some form of action to combat it, including changing their porn habits.
Pornography is the 2nd-most common form of sex trafficking, according to cases reported to the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
One study shows that approximately 45% of teens who consumed porn did so in part to learn about sex.
Researchers have found that approximately 95% of the targets of violence or aggression in porn appeared either neutral to the abuse, or were depicted as responding with pleasure.
Of the adolescents who had been exposed to porn, 28% were first exposed by accident, 19% were unexpectedly shown pornography by someone else, and only 19% searched for it intentionally, according to research by the NSPCC.
Research routinely shows that consuming porn is connected to poorer mental health.
Research shows that even individuals who are accepting of pornography tend to experience psychological distress when their own partners consume pornography.
Up to two thirds of children say they worry that AI could be used to create fake sexual images of themselves.
One study that kept track of couples over time found that consuming porn was the second strongest predictor that a relationship would suffer.
A 2017 poll found that the more porn a man consumes, the more likely he is to be dissatisfied with his penis size. And the same goes for women with male partners— the more porn they consume, the less satisfied they are with their partner’s penis size.
1 in 12 U.S. adults report that they have been victims of image-based abuse —sometimes called “revenge porn—and 1 in 20 report that they have been perpetrators of image-based abuse.
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