According to Websense, a vendor of Web security and filtering software, in a 24-hour period, 70% of porn is downloaded between 9 am and 5 pm. 20% of American men admit to watching Internet porn at work.

In 2001, American revenues of porn were larger than the combined revenue that year of America's major league baseball, football and basketball.

In 2006, porn was a $57 billion dollar global industry with $12 billion of that in the U.S.

In 2006, revenues of American Internet porn were twice

Pornography: there are those that love it and does that hate it. Regardless of your thoughts about it, chances are very high that if you own a computer you may have stumbled upon it in a way or another. Like any science and art, you strive to get better at it. As a result, there comes the need for experimentation along with the good old trial and error.

For those of us familiar with the more old-school, second-wave feminist days of Gloria Steinem, Andrea Dworkin and her ilk, those two words together may sound like a contradiction in terms. After all, it was the feminist movement, back in the 70s, that was trying to get the pornography industry shut down, claiming that it pornography of all kinds is inherently misogynistic in nature.

Yet nowadays, an increasing number of porn actors, producers, writers, sex-toy sellers and sex workers are proclaiming that, quite to the contrary, they do what they in the name of feminism, not in spite of it. More and more DVDs are being sold as "feminist" porn and more and more women-and-feminism based sex shops are opening.

One of the biggest names currently in the feminist porn movie industry is filmmaker Tristan Taormino. Ms. Taormino began her rise to success with movies which focused on - get this - anal intercourse, and women's enjoyment thereof. To many feminists who consider the act of anal sex to be necessarily degrading and painful for the women who have to endure it, this hardly seemed to make sense.

Another hard-hitting figure in feminist porn is actress Nina Hartley, whose films are famous and mainstream enough to be found even on the sleaziest of adult film shelves. Yet Nina is an avowed feminist, and many of her videos are educational products devoted to teaching couples (and other configurations of sex-havers) all about the best ways to have intimacy, pleasure, and emotionally-fulfilling sex.

Looking for feminist sex toy sellers? Try The Smitten Kitten, a Minneapolis-based store that's devoted to raising feminist awareness while selling only safe, non-chemical toys and fighting the industry standard of selling toys made of dangerous, toxic materials.

Browsing through the Kitten's DVD collection, or that on the website of feminist sex site blowfish.com, you'll find even more producers and performers who consider their work feminist in nature.

Yet the question still remains: how is all of this feminist? Isn't it just, as many detractors have accused, apologist catering to male desires, using sex to sell feminism and, in so doing, selling the movement out?

I don't think so. Personally, I couldn't be happier about the state of the feminist movement when I see open, full and empowered celebration of female sexuality as a part of it. For more, check out seksas