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To your second point. Aren't the corporate objectives of all US companies to make a shitload of money for their shareholders? If so, they should be jumping on all those businesses like horny teenagers, because those businesses make a lot of money.



You're mistaken, there's virtually no money in the online adult entertainment business. The entire market size is only a few billion in annual revenue and it's primarily long tail, the majority of the larger players (ala Playboy) are losing hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

It's a small fragmented market which is shrinking every year.


That's true. From Wikipedia: "In 2007, Bang Bros generated a sales total of $1.9 million." That's very tiny given that BangBros is a pretty big player in that industry (2,898 Alexa rank for a paywalled site).


Well, you answered your own question there, it seems.

A good rule of thumb, even if something is "common knowledge" on the Internet (OMG evil corporations profit), there's probably more to it.




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