I get an email every day from the mainstream companies I have bought stuff from: everything from Home Depot to Petsmart.
BUT...they are always offering something. A 40% discount sale today, a 2 for 1 sale tomorrow. etc., etc.
Porn sites? I get the emails from the "big" companies with all their staff and their supposed knowledge.
And it's nothing to compare to mainstream emailing. Because they don't have anything EXCEPT porn to sell me. And the big selling point is usually their newest model. Whoopty doo.
That's why porn emails get shit canned in people's junk folder and blocked. When porn sites start sending out emails every day with nothing really to say in them...it becomes annoying real fast.
Especially when the person getting the email doesn't WANT pornography offers coming to his email address and/or already knows that he can see the site being offered for free on a thousand pirate sites.
As an owner of a site with loyal members...I can't have people getting annoyed at me or complaining to the internet powers that be about my emails.
That is one of the reason's that every major affiliate program in adult made emailing a big "no-no" which will result in your termination for using it.
They want to be in control of their own emails so as not to spam people and piss them off.
Honestly...I've found that emailing is a nice tool if used sparingly.
But I can make a lot more money with social media when used properly. No spamming required.
Now if someone wants to hand me THEIR members list...then hell yes I will hit it hard with emails every damn day. But my own members? Hell no. That's a one-way ticket to going down hard.