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Originally Posted by OnanistsCash
Love having real inside information ;P Many people throwing numbers but they can't back them up :P
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Thats the problem for both of us. There are very few real figures to back up what he business makes. Will Fabian produce Manwin's balance sheet to back up his claim?
Or any other online porn company?
It's all speculation. We're all guessing. What we all know is it's getting very tough in the business. People are leaving, boards are closing or grinding to a halt, shows are giving away free passes to get people to attend, they are not the shows of the past, earnings are being cut, content production and prices are being cut. A thriving industry doesn't cut production of the product it sells. And the generally mood is one of pessimism.
Ignore the trolls saying it's never been so good. Because many would disagree with them.
All I know for certain is after going into many offices of porn companies and meeting many executives and owners of them they seem to be making a lot more money than the people I met in the online porn business.
All we do have for hard facts is Lensman sold Adult.com and all it's other businesses for $9 million. He was meant to be one of the big players. $9m is a nice chunk of change, but not an indication of a big business. The price was after Playboy read their business reports.
Private were in no way the biggest. Fabian kids himself. They were never as big as LFP, PRO and many others. Scala, Magma, Silwa, Bookpress, Score, Crescent, Swank, Playboy, and a lot more were far bigger than Private. And they were just the wholesale end of the business.
The biggest slice of money from porn came from the shops, porn shops, video, shops, newsagents, etc. Anywhere selling a magazine, video or renting one out.
The idea that people couldn't buy porn, in major countries, prior to the Internet is wrong. Playboy sold World Wide as did Hustler, Penthouse, Mayfair, and 100s of others. If you can't get girls being gang banged by 5 dogs, you will jerk off to the underwear section in a mail order catalog if it's all that you have. But they didn't they had magazines and softcore videos.
Otherwise it's like saying a starving man who prefers meat isn't going to eat fish. In 1960 in the UK we jerked off to whatever we could buy. Usually a magazine with girls topless. Parade was one of the top sellers.