Overall Adult Revenues - $ Rising or Falling?

[Linkster]

Its real tough to quantify because you have to decide what you consider part of the biz - most of those very large numbers include the video sales based on hotel in-room videos from large mainstream corporations who tend not to list their revenue split up as adult and mainstream as well as PPV on satellite etc. As an example - an estimated $200 mill a year is spent on PPV from directv for adult films - General Motors owns Directv and they wont split it out but they dont disagree with that number.
At&T owns the Hot Network on cable tv as well as having adult films in over a million hotel rooms - now that estimate of 10 bill was as of the year 2000 from a PBS special if I remember correctly - and Im sure its probably increased substatially from that as have the number of available networks that carry porn in mainstream areas.

[tickler]

Originally Posted by Linkster

Its real tough to quantify because you have to decide what you consider part of the biz - most of those very large numbers include the video sales based on hotel in-room videos from large mainstream corporations who tend not to list their revenue split up as adult and mainstream as well as PPV on satellite etc. As an example - an estimated $200 mill a year is spent on PPV from directv for adult films - General Motors owns Directv and they wont split it out but they dont disagree with that number.
At&T owns the Hot Network on cable tv as well as having adult films in over a million hotel rooms - now that estimate of 10 bill was as of the year 2000 from a PBS special if I remember correctly - and Im sure its probably increased substatially from that as have the number of available networks that carry porn in mainstream areas.

Found this article which is basically yada-yada-yada, but, it does have a revenue breakout at the bottom.
http://www.wkyc.com/health/health_ar...?storyid=44120

Pornography is valued at $57.0 billion world-wide and $12.0 billion in the U.S.
- 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 billion
- Other - $1.5 billion

[CelticTiger]

Originally Posted by tickler

- Phone sex - $4.5 billion

I'm suprised at that figure....I could never understand who'd pay the outrageous charges just to be talked dirty to. The cost of a ten minute dirty conversation would get you into most paysites for a month or two. Someone said once (I forget who) "never underestimate a mans need to masturbate" - guess this holds true