ABSTRACT
On the tendentious issue of Internet pornography, there is one fact that seems indisputable – there’s a lot of it about. Internet pornography and commercial cybersex have become pervasive. Whilst it is advisable to treat statistics with caution, the following snippets culled from the Internet provide some insight into the extent and market penetration of this global industry:1
• According to a global Internet content filtering company N2H2 there were 1.3 million pornographic websites comprising 260 million web pages in September 2003. N2H2’s database contained 14 million identified pages of pornography in 1998, so the growth to 260 million represents an almost twenty-fold increase in just five years.
