03-16-2014, 10:28 AM
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Porn Is Not a $4 Billion Industry. Think Before You Swallow.
While in the midst of a report sharing the facts and quelling the irritating telephone game that always starts following a report of adult industry disease "outbreaks," I came across a dear friend.
"The $4 billion industry..."
I pressed pause on my boom box (today's a Hot Chip day, following Friday's rad show at the Hollywood Bowl), finished my Red Bull (sugar free, duh) and hit up my buddy Kristen Kaye, executive director of business development at adult trade organization XBIZ.
"They're using that old number again," I told her. She chuckled.
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"That year [2001] was just the beginning of a highly profitable decade for adult entertainment companies up until the past couple years where revenue has been down virtually across the board as a result of free porn on the internet, tube sites, piracy and oversaturation," Javors said.
Though media outlets still reference the multi-billion-dollar numbers (understandably so - what else is there to quote?), keep in mind that regardless of how many surveys were sent out or on-the-record conversations were recorded, there's no way to truly know how much money adult companies make.
"The adult industry has always been a private realm founded by and structured around savvy business minds who founded sex-centric companies as million-dollar side projects," Kaye told AfterDarkLA. "It's all about perception - whether they're making a dollar or 14 billion, no smart business owners will reveal true numbers."
The industry is like a big men's locker room. We're all sitting in the steam room with towels covering our junk sharing our trysts from the weekend. You'll never know if Jim actually banged a Laker Girl AND won the lottery doing doggy style, but he certainly looks like a stud and is wearing a new watch, so you give him the benefit of the doubt.
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