Friday, August 05, 2005

Mind-boggling Figures

The figures are mind-boggling. There are over 4 mn websites that offer pornography. That is 12 per cent of the total sites in the www domain. Daily request for porn touch 68 mn globally and the online porn industry is worth $57 bn.

A recent Times of India report mentioned that in India the porn industry is likely to touch $1 bn. In Delhi’s Palika Bazaar alone there are 1,000 buyers of pornographic material and daily revenue from sales are anywhere between Rs 60,000 and Rs 1 lakh.

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