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MsMacComb -> Adult Entertainment and Myth. (5/16/2006 6:50:19 PM)
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We are now in an era where billions and billions of dollars are spent every year on the “adult entertainment” business. Conventional thinking/talking points of the detractors make this seem like it is a few old guys in raincoats that are supporting this industry. Nothing could be further from the truth. Corporate America and nations abroad are the ones that are truly raking in the money. Photographers, camera and film manufacturers, models and agencies, are making profits. Telecommunication industries, internet service providers, computer manufacturers are reaping huge benefits. The parent companies that own these know full well where their profits are coming from. Satellite and cable companies that provide pay per view or premium programming will not open their books to their profit margins as they wish to be politically correct and maintain the aura of providing a service for the “few” select clients that purchase these services. While the digital and online age has certainly cut into profits of magazine sales, there is still an enormous amount of money being made by these sales. Even the most conservative areas will usually have a variety of adult magazines for sale in front of and behind the counters at convenience stores. Large chain bookstores as well sell “softer core” adult material. Many “Mom and Pop” video rentals have the “back room” for adult videos and DVD rentals and sales. A little known fact is that the reason that VHS won out over Beta is due to the porn industry. Many advances in image technology was to the credit of people wanting to be able to view their collection of naked person more clearly, faster and in greater detail.
Recent estimates from the department of commerce and various independent studies conclude the annual income from the “porn” industry to be between 12 and 20 billion dollars for the U.S alone. Of course the difference in the numbers depends on whose particular agenda paid for the study. My opinion on this is that you could take the highest of the numbers, and double it. It is no secret that many persons may not report all their income to the IRS. Shocking, I know. My point being that with the Internet alone, you could have a million private citizens producing adult related material form the privacy of their homes. It only takes a few moments to put up a webpage and offer a product. A couple hundred bucks will buy you software that enables anyone to design a basic website. Through these people offer movies, photos, books, fetish devices, lingerie, (some new, some used). Realistically there is no end to the amount of money that can be made from adult related material. The fact that it now in the U.S alone already surpassed that of all major sports entertainment, and may well surpass the entire operating budgets of some third world countries speaks for itself.
The corporate income is very hard to ascertain for several reasons. One is they don’t exactly have an open book policy. Not only do they wish to hide the true numbers from any potential competitor, but they as well allude to it being a small percent of their quarterly reportable income. In part this is to stave off those that would hope to hold them accountable for “corrupting” the youth of America and the world. Obviously the parents and mainstream media have already done a fine job of this. But I digress.
The point is this. Most “blue haired” fiscal conservative bible thumping, male dominating, (and acquiescent wife or female) social moderate to scary conservative, religious right, moral majority, labia minority (ooops, wrong chapter, lol) wing nut is making a heap-o-cash from porn, known or unbeknownst to them. With the leveraged buyouts, forced takeovers, conjoining and cohabitating of so many large corporations, nobody knows who the fuck owns what anymore. A conglomerate with the parent company being a bastion of old time big business, who ranks high on any trading index, usually owns a subsidiary that owns some business that is in one way or the other making major bank off porn. Estimates that the main telephone companies are in excess of one billion annually are probably understated. Cable television and satellite companies make huge profits off pay per view and monthly subscriptions to adult movies and channels. Any provider for DSL and Broadband is making many, many millions (or billions) due to the main reason that a private individual using their service is to be able to download the highest quality pornographic images, at the fastest rate. I mean come on and get real, what other reason would a home PC owner want “zippity” fast service for. To send “juniors” birthday photos to Grandma? She can wait that extra minute if it would save the sender about $40 a month. The real reason is to send “Granny’s” nude picture to some guy named “Junior” with the greatest of expediency before he “wads” up the keyboard. On another note, would someone please invent a new type of “screen saver”? Maybe a protective coating like “Sperm-Guard 2000” with anti coagulating additives. I can see the late night TV commercials now. “Get your all new Sperm-Guard 2000 package with the 17 inch monitor windshield wipers for only $19.95. And if you order within the next 10 minutes, we will include ABSOLUTELY FREE, our brand new “Wank-Shroud Keyboard protector for those much hated “short shots”. Operators are standing by. Rush orders are available and we do offer discounts for “bulk” orders. (No online orders please).
Anyhow back to my point (and yes there was one) I am not willing to name specific company names and their fiscal numbers as I have no desire to get sued. (Yea go Al Franklin. Fair and Balance THIS you greedy pathetic petty media corporate legal department bastards). However, a wealth of information pertaining to individual companies profits via online porn, pre-paid satellite and cable porn, telecommunications (how can we forget the 976 number profit margins) and on and on ad nausea, are available through your local friendly broker or in online documented reports.
So, “Biff and Marge’s” (you know from the “burbs”) retirement accounts that they are enjoying in Florida were substantially enlarged by various adult entertainment business profits shoveled into their “legitimate” company holdings, and they know it so they need to lose the pious and pompous attitude. Besides, if you think about it, the largest segment of the population with expendable income IS the retiree and “boomer” generation (a sellout, now over thirty something, pro-establishment, hypocritical lot if I have ever seen one) and ironically this is also the alleged base of the so called and self titled delusional “moral impurity, err sorry majority". I hate to be so judgmental and harsh (NOT) but am sick of the televangelist, politician, “pillar of the community” types getting a free pass while the women they are “schleboinking” are getting a bad rap. That reminds me, if a long penis is called a “schlong,” than is the shorter more compact version called a “schlort”? The point being that the men are viewed as “studly” with a slight character, marital, honor flaw, while the women are viewed and portrayed in the media as a bunch of “Non stationary home dwelling, hussified ho bags with elevated and voluminous hair and big old ghetto booties. Ok, I'm off to take my meds now, lol. [:)]
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