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Old 11-06-2018, 08:16 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by plsureking View Post
no one needs to exaggerate when $5k in porn is a good paycheck these days. you just don't believe anyone because its been years since you made $5k in a month.

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If $5k a month is your starting point to making a lot of money then you're in the wrong job.

Let me inform you of why I say the porn industry makes less today than it did.

The best days of the porn industry were when there were porn shops, sex lines, cable TV stations, hotel channels, magazines, mail order, shops selling magazines. Owning porn shops was, as one owner said "A licence to print money." And the beginning of online porn.

Advertising was also a great feature then. Allowing magazines, cable and some videos to make even more money. It was bloody expensive to advertise with sex lines forced to pay a premium or kept out because the magazine owner advertised his own sex lines.

You can't build a $billion company based on million dollar sales, but Flynt, Raymond, Gold, Sullivan, etc did just that.And their sales were largely based in their home countries. Each country had it's own version of them.

Then there was the Internet at the start it run alongside offline sales, then as it progressed offline shrunk. Online created few of it's own customers, that can be seen today on the various high streets and malls where shops are closing as online sales grows.

To argue that giving away free porn has topped the income of the days when people bought in shops is ludicrous unless you can come up with an iron clad case. Don't be fooled by the argument that the Internet is now international against retail which is only national. Unless you can state countries that didn't allow and porn to be sold and now major porn surfers/customers online.

FYI. I have found dating ads on pornhub. I used my daughters machine. Can you prove they make more on selling ads giving porn away than the sales they have destroyed?

Can you prove that $30 for 100 or more video scenes makes more than $50 for 5 scenes?

I was making over $150k per year back in the day. $5k isn't a lot.
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