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Divorce, Marriage, Quitting Porn, Stats, United States

How frequently does pornography factor into divorce?

From a meeting held by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, compulsive pornography consumption factored into 56% of all divorces. As there are more than 1 million divorces in the United States per year, more than 500,000 marriages end because of pornography.

When finding their partners consuming pornography, studies have found that women largely feel betrayed, mistrust, anger, despair, and loss.

The next question, then, is whether pornography consumption occurs as a symptom to an unhappy marriage, or whether the pornography consumption itself is a catalyst to an unhappy marriage. Per sociologist Samuel Perry, he believes that there is enough data in surveys and studies to suggest causation in these findings, meaning that pornography consumption is a precursor to divorce. This directional analysis is supported by pornography expert, Ana J. Bridges.

When women in marriages stop watching pornography, their divorce rates decrease from 18% to 6%. As for men, surveys and studies were inconclusive because the majority of them would not stop consuming pornography. However, it is worth noting that men who had affairs were three times as likely to be a consumer of pornography, and men who paid for sex with a prostituted person were four times as likely to be a consumer of pornography.

Furthermore, of women who divorced due to the sexual violence perpetrated against them by their husbands, upwards of 1/3 said that pornography had played a direct role in their being sexually abused.

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Stats, United States

How much pornography is produced each year?

Each year, a minimum of 14,000 new pornography films are produced in the USA and distributed via the internet, DVD, and pornographic theaters. This total does not include still photography or global statistics.

Hollywood, by comparison, produces and distributes around 600 films per year. In 2014, 1,363 non-scripted and 352 scripted series aired on television.

In terms of sheer scale, pornography is by far the most concentrated producer of media on earth. With its normalization and increasing accessibility, the number of pornography films made each is increasing.

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Where is most pornography produced?

Upwards of 89% of all pornography (digital and physical) is produced in the United States, leading global production by a significant margin. Following the USA in quantity of pornography produced are the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and the Netherlands.

It is noteworthy that approximately 90% of all the pornography produced in the US happens in the hills just outside of Hollywood, California, in the San Fernando Valley (aka “Porn Valley” or “Silicone Valley” or “San Pornando Valley”). Hollywood is, of course, the film capital of the world. That the porn industry is situated here is by design: Hollywood regularly attracts young women (and men) from all over the world who are desperate to “make it” and “become a star.” The pornography industry understands that the vast majority of these women, however, will not “make it,” and misleads many of them via “modeling” gigs and “auditions” into performing sexually on camera. With an unending supply of these women, the San Fernando pornography industry has been able to create hundreds of porn videos a day, every day, for years.

Though the San Fernando Valley has been the hub of pornographic production since the 1970s, it is believed that the industry will eventually relocate to Eastern Europe. Legal pushes for mandated condom use (largely due to the efforts of the AIDS healthcare foundation) have forced the porn industry into a position on which they refuse to negotiate. A move to Eastern Europe (in which some locations have a history of being socially, politically, and economically anti-feminist) would assure the porn industry another unending supply of economically disadvantaged women.

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