Pornography and the Internet

Many have the opinion that the Internet is either filled with pornographic material or that the Internet has only few other uses. The US-Ministry of Justice recently made a study concerning that very thing, the cause for that study was the growing concern, for children and their protection online. The access to the sides that contain that material can be protected using age-verifications to insure or at least reduce the chance for children to come in contact with the pornographic material. Another interesting point emerged during the study which is that a relatively small amount in plain numbers actually contains pornographic material, in other words 1.1% of the websites world wide contain such material. This shows that internet only contains a very small portion of pornography in relativistic terms.
One has to wonder why the internet gained this prejudice.

Mercury News (US)
Study: About 1 percent of Web pages have sexually explicit material

Die Welt (De)
Im Internet gibt's nicht nur Sex