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Originally Posted by AmeliaG
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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You're making the mistake most online people make. Penthouse, Hustler, Vivid, and Private, etc. Weren't the money makers in porn. They were the production sector. The money was in the shops.
Yes Playboy turned over three hundred million a year. Selling their magazines to shops who put a 300% mark up on it.