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World-wide $$$: 57.0 billion
U. S. $$$: $12.0 billion
US Adult videos: $20 billion
Escort services: $11 billion
Magazines: $7.5 billion
Sex clubs: $5 billion
Phone sex: $4.5 billion
Cable/Pay per view: $2.5 billion
Internet: $2.5 billion
CD-Rom: $1.5 billion
Novelties: $1.0 billion
Other: $1.5 billion
Porn revenue is larger than all combined revenues of all professional football, baseball and basketball franchises.
US porn revenue exceeds the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, and NBC (6.2 billion).
Child pornography generates $3 billion annually.
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So there you have it. While different stats will vary (depends on who’s commissioned them and for what monetary purpose, don’t ya know?), I think there isn’t such a huge schism that we need to argue the accuracy. Do you? Nah, I didn’t think so. Leave that silliness to the Wendy Whiners and Nancy Naysayers.
I’m just making a point to the sexual snobgoblins out there: Someone is obviously paying money for this stuff. Lotsa money. And at a twelve billion dollar (as I said, give or take a few billion–depending on who’s counting) price tag, you can bet at least more than a few of the spenders are not the misfit miscreants some would like to believe. I’d even gander that more than a few have shared your pew, dining table, golf foursome or even your bed.
Pornography is big business. Someone (somemany?) out there realize(s) that “if you build it they will cum,” and is/are racking in the cash. Like most girly-girls and even a lot of my callers (the advantage of attracting smart boys with perverse thoughts), I’ve never been big on porn.
I actually wrote an article about my kinda-sorta non-relationship with pornography for Sex Kitten a while back, Please Pass the Egg Nog: Pornography or Porn-not-graphy. Don’t get me wrong: I will defend anybody’s right to read/write/publish pornography. And, of course, there is always the pornography VS erotica debate which goes on ad nauseam.
My problem is not with the product, the producer or even the consumer. My problem is with the lack of balance some men are able to maintain when it comes to the stuff.  Which will be left for another discussion.
More interesting statistics can be found here.
And thanks, Lyndee, for pointing this out. You always show me interesting things.
Most interesting stats. I’ve read some before, and the arguments that porn stats are stacked (a pun maybe? lol), but refreshing to see them again. And you are so right: someone is spending all this money.
Time and time again I hear “let the free market dictate” so why not with this business?
With much affection,
Gracie
What I really want to see is a split between types of porn, and what they generate individually.
I bet anal porn is the most profitable, and fun.
You are most welcome, sweet cheeks! However, I am thinking I would like more of that 4.5 billion spent on phone sex!! C’mon, Angela…share a little!! I know you have at least half of the market on this one…
Hope you are staying warm out there…Love ya bunches!
No. I’m not surprised one bit.
And yet the only place worth spending one’s money is with Ms. St.Lawrence.
Thanks, Gracie…love you bunches too. And who is this Jeremy guy? How did you find me and will you be back? (And we need to talk about this “anal porn” thing.) Lyndee, I think you and me just oughta corner the market as PSOs once and for all. PQS-I knew this wouldn’t surprise you. Nothing surprises you. Except for me, I hope, now and again. hdb: I’ll take it all! So cash in that IRA, baby.
These stats can be taken as depressing or simply realsitc and very human. Sex is the single most powerful drive in humans, after the desire to survive, so it’s not a surprise.
I don’t know who Jeremy is, or what his preferences are, but let me say one thing: anal sex is more and more fun every time I try it! What have I been missing all my life?
My impression – based on what I can’t remember – that anal sex is one of the most popular segments of heterosexual pornography.
While I don’t enjoy porn I would like to see it legalized.
Aside from keeping people out of jail it would cause a huge drop in price so that people could spend the money on other things.
I think most of Angela’s callers have a keen sense (pun intended) of the difference between erotica and porn. Angela is the renaissance painter and the porn entrepreneur is the fence painter. Now every once in a while you need your fence painted, but the inspiration/captivation lies in the work of art.