11/84Dollars spent by Americans annually for packaged cookies: $2,400,000,000
Dollars spent by Americans annually for pornography: $7,000,000,000
3/84Copies of Playboy or Penthouse purchased per thousand people in Des Moines: 86
In New York City: 28
11/87Cases of child pornography investigated by the federal government in 1982: 82
8/87Condoms that New York City will distribute at singles bars, porn theaters, and massage parlors this year: 500,000
6/89Number of African cichlid fish killed to make a suit worn by John Cleese in a photograph in Playboy last year: 412
1/96Number of homemade sex videos in Penthouse magazine’s “Amateur” series: 2
12/96Ratio of Playboy Playmates who “most admire” Albert Einstein to those who most admire Sammy Davis Jr.: 5:13
3/97Amount the Library of Congress spent last year to create a braille edition of Playboy: $60,000
7/98Number of the 535 free subscriptions Hustler offered members of Congress last year that were rejected: 16
3/00Number of Playboy centerfold models since 1959 whose bios claimed their favorite book was by Ayn Rand: 12
7/02Number of hours Israeli soldiers in Ramallah broadcast pornography on seven Palestinian television stations in March: 48
12/05Number of U.S. soldiers who have posted photographs of dead Iraqis or Afghans on Nowthatsfuckedup.com: 32
Cost of the access to the site’s pornography that each soldier was given in exchange: $20