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Originally Posted by Bladewire
$585,000 a day can you believe it? And that was 2 years ago before they've gotten even bigger.
Paul Markham was wrong, there is money in porn  |
Of course there is, but when you think how much people should be able to make...
It has been estimated that in 2004, the global online adult industry was generating $20 billion, and that had fallen to $10 billion by 2011 because of free sites.
If it wasn't for the free stuff, and some other reasons, the industry should be worth around $50 billion now and heading towards $100 billion with the growth of the internet globally since 2004, increased download speeds, greater acceptance of spending online, and better high definition porn.
And it's not just that the revenue has shrunk, it's less fairly distributed. Furthermore, the individuals and groups that have been hoovering up a greater and greater share of the diminishing revenue haven't been as active as they should have in fighting piracy - in fact they are part of the problem. Nor have they spared a billion or so of their huge profits to promoting porn positivity and combatting junk science advocacy research of opponents of porn. As far as I know, the only thing the likes of Pornhub and Manwin have done in that area is cheesy 'breast cancer awareness' promotions and the like.
If you just include adult men, there is a potential market of over 3 billion worldwide for adult paysites. And we know that nearly every man wants to look at porn almost every day. If it wasn't for piracy and legal restrictions (porn being banned in China, for example), then adult should really be a trillion dollar industry.