Porn Statistics Overview of statistics on pornography: 1 in 5 smartphone search queries is related to porn. Approximately 1 million people are watching online pornography every minute. 46% of men and 16% of women in the U.S. consume porn regularly. Teens and young adults say “not recycling” is more immoral than viewing porn. About 7.7 million Americans struggle with pornography addiction. 1 in 4 men actively hides their pornography use from their partner. Porn is associated with a 30% decrease in commitment and lower relationship quality. Divorce rates double for married couples who start watching porn. Regular porn users feel lonelier, more insecure, and dissatisfied with their appearance.
Why do I have the feeling that it's much more than that? I know these poll results from Germany, they always state numbers like "30% of men" or something. As if everybody would admit to his addiction. It's probably more in the 80 or 90% range.
I think older men are much less likely to watch, and that brings down the average. Porn usage is probably much higher in Berlin than in some old männer aus dem Schwarzwald. It's been a while since I read the statistics, but the takeaway I got was that in young men (age 18-35), around ~40% watch very regularly, another 40% also use but are much less frequent viewers and tend to consume much more softcore content, and about 10-20% never use at all.
Lol it is so much higher than this. Like 75% of men are like "hey honey, Im gonna go watch P now." hardly. I'd say it's the reverse, 75% men hide their use..
I really really believe that porn has moral problems. It harms mostly yourself, but also fuels a shady industry and may impact your relationship to other women. Not recycling however is part of a bigger problem. We are litterally destroying our planet and it affects everyone. I somehow get the argument why its more immoral. It affects more people in a more serious way, even though its not so dramatic and a smaller issue in itself. But Im also German and seperate every garbage by hand even if it takes a minute or two. We also have 4 different bins for different waste, glascontainers ordered by color and bring our plastic bottles back to the supermarket after we drank them. Took a while to explain that to our american roommates haha
Thanks for sharing this source. My fellow fapstronauts, I dont recommend clicking. This link is connected to P sites has some click-baity triggering content. None of the data in the links is from peer-reviewed studies, some of it seems to have heavy political and religious bias. and all of it is aggregated and dissected by one person to promote their dating platform (the link here). I'm not blaming OP here, but just giving this as a content warning.
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