What does research tell us?

-In 2017 on one website, 68 years-worth of videos were uploaded. The site also had 28.5 BILLION views which is 5 billion more views than it had in 2016. This amount of watching is equal to 3.75 views per person on the earth. There were 50,000 searches per minutes for the entire year, just on this one site. On top of that there was enough data and memory used to fill every single iPhone in the world that is in use right now. The demand for pornography is growing each year. Fight the New Drug (2017)

-In a study that was published this year, it was found that pornography lead to a fifty percent chance of divorce when both partners watched it. The study also found that pornography use and divorce were more closely associated with younger Americans who are known to be less religious (Perry & Schleifer, 2018). Pornography is linked to a lower desire to marry in young men and can also cause dissatisfaction in the marriage for a man and infidelity. This was stated in a bill passed in Utah in 2016.

-“…If these numbers are accurate, here's a very sobering statistic. Every year for the past decade there have been roughly 1 million divorces in the United States. If half of the people divorcing claim pornography as the culprit, that means there are 500,0900 marriages annually that are failing due to pornography.”-Skinner (2011)

-Pornography has enjoyed First Amendment protection since the 1950s. But according to title 18 U.S. code 1465 “production and transportation of obscene matters for sale and distribution are prohibited”, including interactive computer service. The hang up is the word “obscene”.