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- A study published in Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention found that sex is the number one reason adult Americans use the Internet. One-third of all their visits are to sexually oriented websites, chat rooms and news groups.
- A 2002 survey by Pastor Rick Warren and Saddleback Community Church in Mission Viejo, California found that of 6,000 pastors visiting his website, 30 percent admitted viewing Internet pornography in the last 30 days.
- An August 2000 survey by Christianity Today magazine (CT) found that 36 percent of laymen responding had visited a sexually explicit website. Of those who had visited a porn site, 44 percent had visited such sites "a few times" in the previous year.
- 33 percent of clergy responding to the CT survey had visited a sexually explicit website. The CT survey found that 53 percent of pastors had visited porn websites “a few times” in the past year; 18 percent said they had visit sexually explicit sites between a couple of times a month and more than once a week.
- A 2000 survey by Leadership magazine found that four in ten pastors online had visited a pornographic website. More than one-third had done so in the past year.
- Almost one in seven calls to Focus on the Family’s Pastoral Care Hot Line in the year 2000 dealt with Internet pornography.
- According to the Justice Department, in 1998 there were 28,000 pornographic website generating some $925 million in revenue. By 2001 those figures had skyrocketed to 280,000 such websites generating revenues of $10 billion to $20 billion.