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Blue Coat provides these reference links to help parents and community leaders
understand the issues the Internet brings to our families, communities, and children.
We encourage all parents and community leaders to become familiar with these facts and
findings.
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Did you know...
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Pornography is a $57 billion a year industry. In comparison, the combined revenues
of all teams in the NBA, NHL, MLB, and NFL is $12 billion, and the combined revenues
of ABC, CBS, and NBC is a mere $6.2 billion.
Internet Filter Review
Economic Values of Professional Sport Franchises in the United
States
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1 in 4 youth have unwanted exposure to inapprpriate pictures each year
The Internet Keep Safe Coalition
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Nine of 10 kids aged 8-16 have viewed pornography on the Internet, often in the
process of doing homework.
London School of Economics January 2002
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Students were most at risk for cybersex compulsions due to a combination of
increased access to computers, more private leisure time, & developmental
stage characterized by increased sexual awareness & experimentation. Both
computer classes & colleges might need to recognize this increased
vulnerability and institute new primary prevention strategies.
Sexual Addiction and Compulsion: The Journal of Treatment and
Prevention, March, 2000 (
available by subscription
)
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"Cyber-sex is the crack cocaine of sexual addiction"
Jennifer P. Schneider, M.D., Ph.D
The New "Elephant in the Living Room" Effects of Compulsive
Cybersex Behaviors on the Spouse
, from the book Sex and the Internet, 2002
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"Cyber-sex reinforces and normalizes sexual disorders"
Robert Weiss, Sexual Recovery Institute
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One in five children ages 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation over the
Internet
Online Victimization: A Report on the Nation's Youth
, sponsored by the National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children. See also
UNH Study Finds Many Youth Exposed to Sexual Solicitation,
Pornography and Harassment on Internet
, 19 March, 2001.
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74 percent of commercial pornography sites display free porn images on the
homepage.
Child-Proofing on the World Wide Web: A Survey of Adult
Webservers, 2001, Jurimetrics (abstract).
Summarized in Youth and the Internet (Chapter 3,
The Adult Online Entertainment Industry
), National Research Council, 2002.
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45 percent of 1,000 surveyed teens admitted parents are the biggest influence in
deciding whether or not to have sex
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88 percent of teens say it would be easier to postpone sex if they could have
more open, honest conversations with their parents
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Two-thirds of U.S. teenagers who have had sexual relations wish they had
waited longer.
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, September
2003.
Brief
Full survey
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