That $14 billion number was always a fiction. At the time it was first bandied about, Playboy had a market cap of a hundred million and grossed about three hundred million a year. Even if you figure that Penthouse, Hustler, Vivid, and Private, every single major cam and dating player, and all the $30+PPS guys all did much bigger numbers than those, at the time, there is no way porn ever accounted for that much financial activity.
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