










 |
 |

- Teens use the Internet an average of 8.5 hours per week for
chatting and e-mailing, compared to 1.8 hours spent using it for school work.
- An estimated 18.8 million kids under 18-years-old have
access to home computers.
- Playboys web site, which offers free teaser shots of
its Playmates, averages 5 million hits per day.
- In August, 1997, there were 92,000 sexually explicit sites
on the Internet and an estimated 266 new porn sites every day. "Adult"
entertainment is estimated to be the largest sector of sales on the Internet.
- The vast majority of Americans (94%) believe a ban on
Internet pornography should be legal.
- UNICEF estimates that one million children are forced into
prostitution or used to produce pornography each year. Many are handed over (or sold) by
their families driven by the extremes of poverty....The Internet also has given dealers in
child pornography a far bigger audience--and anonymity.
- We currently have no legal means to protect children from
sexually explicit material on the Internet. The door has been flung open wide for
pornographers and sexual predators.
|