It has been estimated that in 2008, a minimum of 28,000 Americans were consuming pornography at any given time (I was unable to pull any statistics on global pornography use). Since 2008, pornography consumption has increased significantly in both males and females, cascading outwardly to older and younger demographics (reminder that the largest consumers of online pornography are boys between the ages of 12 and 17).
Recent statistics on active or peak pornography consumption have not yet been made available; however, a look at popular pornography site Pornhub’s annual analysis offers insight. Per their 2016 Year in Review, around 2.6 million people visited their site per hour, every hour, the entirety of the year, cumulating in 23 billion total visits to Pornhub in the year (up from 2.4 million visits per hour in 2015, or 21.2 billion visits that year).
Note that Pornhub is only the third most popular pornography site on the web (financially valued at $30m +). They trail Xhamster ($33m+) and Xvideos ($52) in popularity by a significant margin. Those are just three sites. In the US, there are at least 40 million more.
Needless to say, significantly more people are consuming pornography today than in 2008. And, of course, more people (and 12-year-olds) are consuming pornography now than in any other point in history. Unless something is done to curb demand and prevent the further proliferation of pornography consumption, tomorrow is only going to get worse.