Is Porn Becoming a Legit Industry?

[Cyndalie]

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Pullquote Highlights:

"It would seem that porn has become just another career that creative people latch onto in the fog following college"

"X-rated Internet sites have long been seen as an important new-tech pioneer, paving the way for family-friendly companies."

Cross References:
A Diciplined Business - about Kink.com - 60,000 subscribers at $30/month

"Then, after his first year, he read in a British tabloid about a fireman who sold pornographic pictures on the Internet. “He had made a quarter of a million pounds over a short period doing nothing very clever at all,” Acworth told me not long ago, pointing to the clipping framed in his office in downtown San Francisco. “So I basically just ripped off that idea.”"

"“You can’t just throw up an adult Web site and watch the dollars roll in anymore,” says Kathee Brewer, editor of the trade magazine AVN Online, which covers the online adult industry. "


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Then you have these articles that "uncover porn operating in the underground of Philadelphia" - a Pornstar named Tommy Gunn and Hotmovies - "exposed" which was on the local news the other night.

It's funny because they aren't hiding a thing, they just aren't advertising it on billboards out front. Live and let live, more and more signs point to it being a legit business creating jobs for those in all walks of life and 80% of the jobs never even actually end up dealing direct with porn production.

Business is Business.

[SykkBoy]

It's becoming a legit biz, but remember, what keeps us profitable is that we're a vice. We want to be shunned by some, because that makes us stronger in selling our vice to the public...that whole taboo factor.

[TheLegacy]

well cigarettes are a vice as is alcohol and religion - so it's hard to point fingers. the adult industry has entered into the mainstream world in so many ways, from bill boards showing half naked women pushing product to major hotel rooms carrying ppv porn. there will always be a seedy underside to us, as in any business - but sex sells and will continue to do so

[Mister E]

Wow I love this place! Smart people. Our biz is only a bad thing if one gets obsessed with somebody else's definition of good. My Raptors were good last night, but may suck again (yikes...he said suck on the radio) this w/e. Perspective. It can change. My fear is our own Talibannalistic Thought Police Statesmen Freeks oozing out of the mouldy woodwork. Hell, consider the recent swill about porns' link to the campus tragedy. For those of us who are greatful to freely be expressive, let's stroke (eachothers' egos) and remind the world that there is very little room for such freedoms in their Real World. Us? Mainstream? Me think not. Maybe we're just getting used to it.