Originally Posted by TheDoc

While some porn companies can survive without Affiliates, porn itself online will not survive without Affiliates. Affiliates is what allows Programs to reach into new markets and areas of the Internet that they would never think of reaching into. Affiliates is what keeps our traffic moving and our global exposure up. The global affiliate traffic is what allows Internal Networks of Program Owners to reach the size they do.

Very few, less than a handful of Programs are able to generate enough productive traffic outside of the Porn Bubble to stay in business. If you take away affiliates almost every porn company online would be gone.