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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Sorry my friend... I have done the research. The mid 90's to 2000, sales were easily 10x what they were in the 80's. Hell, today we still make more sales, online alone, than all sales of every sex product in the 80's.
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Seriously show me the figures. And you will find a lot of those sales were people renting a video for a night.
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No amount of math in the world could change this, it's very basic. Still today, we have millions of more people that can buy porn and do buy porn, than ever before. I have millions of more possible clients than the 80's ever could have had.
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People looking at free porn are not people buying porn. OK 1-1000 are.
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Porn went from a medium of 3 or 4 things, to hundreds of different mediums. It went from a few 100ish pornographers, to a hundreds of thousands porn site owners in 10 years.
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The number of sellers does not always relate to the number of buyers.
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It's not even a competition. Single paysites today, just one paysite, is larger than the biggest producers of porn in the 80's.
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Now you are smoking a pipe full of some good stuff. Some magazines of the 80s were a license to print money.
Too many here thinking along the lines of viewers = sales. Not always the case.
The moral of my thread is there was an explosion because the sellers tapped into the fact that selling something for $3 100 times was better than selling it 5 times for $30. The only place you will see the figures are in AVN and even though it's discredited there is no other place.
I saw people make a fortune renting videos from their stores. There were still buyers but the canny guy who did not want the evidence of a cupboard full of porn videos rented. Would we make more money selling single scenes on a 50 cent a scene basis, minimum order $2. Than trying to sell to a few a package we clearly can see he is steering away from.
The Internet is a different medium, but the buyer has not changed much. He still wants 20 minutes to get off and get on with his life.