How prevalent is pornography?
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By Daniel Cox, Beatrice Lee & Dana Popky
In the internet era, online pornography has become ubiquitous. Roughly six in 10 (58 percent) Americans report having watched pornography at some point in their lives, including more than one in four (27 percent) who have watched it in the past month. But there are massive gender differences in the consumption of pornography. Men are four times more likely than women to report having watched pornography in the past month (44 percent vs. 11 percent).
Men in their 30s and 40s report the most frequent use of pornography. A majority (57 percent) of men ages 30–49 report having watched pornography in the past month, and 42 percent say they have watched it in the past week. In contrast, 44 percent of young men and only 26 percent of senior men say they have watched pornography at some point during the past month.
Even if most Americans do not report engaging in this activity regularly, exposure to pornography is much more common today than it was ...
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