European Lee, no offense, but what you are saying seems to consist of a lot of wishful thinking.
Yes, many Europeans (and French) have credit cards or debit cards. However, there are some factors you are forgetting. The European debit cards consist largely of ones using Maestro, not suitable for online payments. Besides that, many Europeans are not exactly eager to use their credit cards online, and prefer using dialers.
Now, nothing wrong with that - I know from experience that many "recur" if they like a site, that is, they come back quite often and spend a lot more money than creditcard users do.
Offering credit cards as an alternative is a good idea, but, at least for me, most of the money is made through dialers even then.
"Why would they spend time and money on running English language sites that bring less profits than their French language sites?" is not a statement, but a question. And whether or not it is valid, it does represent what many European webmasters ask themselves. They simply consider their own markets to be easier to work than the international market. In my experience, they are right. (did testing with multilingual sites, for me international/US traffic makes about a tenth of what european traffic makes)
Maybe I'm wrong, but much of what you are saying seems like en extensive plug for your services...
Oh, and:
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The cultural differences throughout the global internet are much more varied than they are in America or England for example, most foreign countries view homosexuality as a sexual preference and many married straight men have male lovers that their wives know about.
In fact,t he only countries globally other than the backward arabic speaking countries that have a lesser view on homosexuality is America, everywhere else it is an accepted part of society.
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I have no idea where you got such odd ideas about the rest of the world, but rest assured: most foreign countries have a fair share of homophobes as well. For instance, a Dutch phenomenon: "potenrammen". That is, stupid young men going out to beat up gay guys.
Although homosexuality may be officially accepted, culturally it most often isn't.
Now, straight married men having male lovers?? Maybe in certain swinger communities, but that most definitely is not something mainstream in Europe.