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Originally Posted by geedub
How can you say there are less people when the internet has been doing nothing but growing every day since? Growing in all aspects, more available for your potential customers, more competition, more free options. No way are there less people paying for porn, the internet is just way fucking bigger.
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This is all just anecdotal though. A couple years back I remember trying to break it all down using figures about the number of people going on the internet now versus 10-15 years ago and which countries they were from. It wasn't an academic style paper and just a stupid forum post while having a bitchfest with Fabian but basically after a certain ratio of people willing to buy versus not willing to buy increases it is indeed a net negative.
I don't recall the exact numbers without looking but to illustrate the concept let us say there are three times as many people online now versus 2003. Well if the average willingness to "pay for porn" per person online is now 10% of what it was in 2003 among people online then versus now you still have a NET LOSS. Adding three times as many online users doesn't make up for that.
Most numbers I see from people suggest that porn has diminished over the years in industry monetary volume despite the increase in surfers. But none of this is exact either. I'm open to being shown wrong if you have contrary figures.