Porn industry experienced a $2.2 billion increase in the George W. Bush years

[Human Torch]

The Sunday Times - Business

The Sunday Times October 29, 2006

Booming porn faces backlash
As its earnings pass $12 billion, the American industry is attracting the attention of legislators. John Harlow reports from Los Angeles



http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-2426135,00.html

THE American pornography business is growing so fast that for the first time in a decade it is attracting the unwelcome attention of the White House and federal prosecutors.

When George Bush entered the Oval Office in 2001 he accused his predecessor Bill Clinton of being “soft on porn” and vowed to crack down on an industry that was generating $9.8 billion (£5.2 billion) a year. But anti-porn campaigners in Bush’s own party say that since then the president has been distracted by the war on terror and has done little.

:rofl:

Thanks in part to a new generation of “crossover” stars such as Jenna Jameson, who appears in both sex videos and the book charts with her bestseller How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, industry earnings have risen to more than $12 billion a year. Top producers such as the Private Media Group are even listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

With an average 40% profit margin on DVD sales, explicit porn is twice as profitable as the music business. Porn revenues in the US are higher than all money generated by the combined professional American football, baseball and basketball franchises. Production is booming too. According to Adult Video News, 13,500 titles were released last year, compared with 8,000 in 1998 and 1,250 in 1988.

[bluestateguy]

1. Any good free enterprise, small government conservative will applaud this

nt

[derby378]

2. And now for the bad news

All the new porn actresses look like this:



And the leading male in all these films? Well...



:evilgrin:

:rofl:

:toast:

[HughBeaumont]

6. The original "moran" guy is probably in hiding by now.

Thanks to the internet, he's become a cult phenomenon.

[catzies]

8. Moran guy: Best. Halloween. Costume. Ever.

I'm DYING ovah heah! :rofl: *wipes tears*

[Arkana]

3. "A majority of this increase in funding has come from one Mr. Mark Foley..."

[A Simple Game]

4. Ok, it's bad enough to talk about porn movies, but

did you have to include a still from some sicko porn rape movie?

And this one looks like they filmed the real thing, no actress could fake a reaction like that!

[Bad Penny]

5. Lynne Cheney without her makeup?

[SouthernBelle82]

15. Seems more like it to me

like the girl from the attack ad on Harold Ford Jr. That's who I thought of.

[Greeby]

7. Well, when an idiot chimp and a heartless psychopath......

Who are intent on starting a nuclear war, are in the White House. Pardon my language, but it stands to reason there's a lot more fuckin goin on :evilgrin:

[Atman]

9. DUH -- a couple of hundred million more Americans are getting fucked!

:hi:

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[AZBlue]

10. This has little to do with the Bush administration -

other than the fact that they haven't regulated it at all. It has more to do with the social and cultural changes in society that the article spells out and, I think, mostly to do with the advancement of technology and the spread of porn on the web.

As the article states: "There are some 4.2m pornographic websites, 12% of the total web content, according to the anti-porn watchdog Internet Filter Review. It says users make 68m pornographic searches every day, a quarter of all search engine requests. And some 40m adults in America admit to being regular users of the sites."

[Human Torch]

13. True, but my primary reason for posting is the paragraph I set apart in bold...

...it's the fact that Bush smirked and swaggered his way through another "agenda item." He didn't "crack down" on Jack SQUAT. One more example of his "big talk" bravado that never got past the "talk" stage.

:patriot:

[Kablooie]

11. At least he increased the jobs in one industry. He should be proud of that.

[Quantess]

12. It is hard to directly tie this to the current administration.

But, it definitely shows their true attitude toward traditional "Family Values", which the right wingers claim is their forte. :eyes:

[SouthernBelle82]

14. I don't think he's been "distracted"

That's the old excuse they love to give him. This is also done on purpose. Bush likes money so he'll get it from anywhere including the porn people. Remember the porn star Mary Carey who got to see Bush at a republican event and her manager or whatever paid a huge sum of money to see him? This explains it. It's all about money.