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The distribution of pornography relies upon the public's easy access and private
viewing areas. The same distribution channels and commerce laws which deliver valuable
visual material carries pornography equally as well.
Nationally
 | 20,000 "adult" bookstores: Most have "peep shows," exhibiting the
most violent and bizarre kinds of sex. The are often havens of illicit sexual activity. |
| 400 "Adult" magazine publications. |
| 800 "Adult" movie theaters. |
| 40,000 video stores (with more every day!) Approximately 75% carry pornographic films. |
| Cable TV reaches nearly every neighborhood in the nation with films showing explicit
sex. |
| Delivery service by U.S. Mail brings as many as 100 million pornographic magazines into
homes and businesses every year. These advertise pornographic materials available by mail.
Seventy percent of these magazines end up in the hands of children. |
| Dial-a-porn phone services average millions of calls per month. Telephone companies
share the profits. |
| Children are accessing hard-core pornography on computers. Molesters are using on-line
services and the Internet to transmit child pornography and to communicate with children. |
Washington, D.C. suburbs
| Several "adult" bookstores are operating in Prince George's and Montgomery
Counties. |
| Most video store carry hard-core, X-rated films. |
| Cable TV offers pornography, some of it explicit. |
| Dial-a-porn services are obtainable only upon written request to the telephone company.
Long distance (1-900) numbers are still available but may be blocked by the phone company
on request. |
| Most major drug and convenience stores have removed pornographic magazines, but some
independent drug stores and many newsstands, bookstores, and novelty shops carry them,
even some gas stations. |
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