Online Adult Industry

Sitting in E-Business, learning all about the online adult industry was a bit of a strange experience for me. On one hand, it made me quite uncomfortable while on the other hand I was completely astonished at the statistics involved with this type of industry.

Between 2001 and 2005 visits to pornographic websites have doubled with the majority of this being for recreational use. This is true, even while more and more children and women are becoming more susceptible to abuse and violence due to the pornography industry.

I was shocked to see the size of the Pornography industry being as big as $57 billion worldwide, with Internet accounting for $2.5 billion of this. Another fact that I couldn't believe was that porn revenue is bigger than all professional football, baseball and basketball franchises put together, and all revenues combined from ABC, CBS, and NBC. I had no idea of the size of this industry. Pornography websites also account for 12% of all websites on the Internet.

However the online adult industry has revolutionised the development of the internet. It was ahead of all other websites, as it was one of the first industries to develop video streaming, live chats, web cam and video conferencing, payment systems, security systems and fee based subscriptions to the Internet. Its online advertising methods were also quite advanced at an early stage with the development of banner ads, ads associated with works, traffic for cash ads and pay-per-click ads.

I don't pay much attention to the fact that there is an industry like the pornography industry, but whenever I do think about it, I don't really agree with it all that much as I find it quite degrading towards women, children and I suppose men aswell. However, the technical advances that the risk takers, in the online porn industry have helped in shaping other website worldwide with their security systems and payment methods.