frontline: american porn: inside the porn business: have you seen an x-rated movie in the past year?

A collection of survey information and consumer data on the American consumers of adult entertainment -- from videos, to magazines, to adult content websites



		What's known about adult content consumers on the Internet? To start, they are mostly successful men. Here's more from an April 2001 brief by Forrester Research.



		A comparison of results from the 1973 and 2000 national surveys conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. See what the responses -- which are broken down by gender, age, marital status, and region -- suggest about U.S. attitudes toward adult movies.



		Data from Adult Video News, including the increasing number of adult videos that have hit the market each year from 1986 to 2000, and a regional breakdown of video stores' adult-movie inventory.



		A demographic profile of the consumers of Playboy magazine, the flagship property of one of the few adult companies that is publicly traded.

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