Porn on the Internet

You know, I've always really wondered - exactly how much of the internet is porn? An interesting take on this question can be found here, which I located with a quick google search:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2618/how-much-of-all-internet-traffic-is-pornography

The problem with this article is that it doesn't give a definitive answer, although it does raise some interesting points about actually trying to quantify internet traffic in a particular subject area. Luckily, the second google result had the answers I was seeking.

http://io9.com/5566761/37-of-the-internet-is-porn

According to this article, 37% of all internet traffic is porn, as reported by Optenet, a company which designs and sells censorship programs for schools to keep all the kiddies off of ugly sites such as wikipedia and youtube while they are using the school library computers. Anyone with half a brain can get around that by using a proxy... it's entertaining how kids can simply weave around the pathetic technological walls the old generation tries to throw up. But I digress.

37%! That's quite a bit, and somewhere in the expected range. More than one third of the internet is porn. You heard it here first. And we can pretty much assume that porn dominates the runner-up interests in terms of traffic by quite a bit.

Facts like these really do put a fist to the face of society's moral watchdogs. The greatest, biggest, most sophisticated thing that we have and arguably the greatest invention of all time... is dedicated, in large part, to fulfilling out most basic desires.

Food for thought.