Is Porn a Growing or Shrinking Business?

Representatives of the Internet porn industry came to the Senate Committee and widely thought that it is one of the most profitable and biggest companies inside and outside of cyberspace, while discussing the accessibility of pornography and the impact on young people in Japan It is done. But is this true?

According to Industry News magazine's "Adult Video News", the industry's sales in 2005 are estimated to be about $ 12.6 billion, exceeding $ 2.5 billion on the Internet alone.

But are these numbers accurate, does it mean that the industry is growing, or is there a limit business to meet the waste of limitations?

Over the years, mainstream media has brought a $ 10 billion price tag to the adult industry and calls it the same size as the Hollywood movie industry or larger.

However, according to many media analysts, the data has not been confirmed and it is nearly impossible to achieve in the adult entertainment industry.

Jan Saxton, vice president of media research at Adams, says: "This is too much for the gray area business."

Adams conducted a financial analysis of the entertainment and digital media market, said the industry is too large to cover.

"It runs in softcore content in the backyard of the home video store, using the movie is absolutely illegal," she says.

Neilsen // NetRatings, a leading media research analyst who keeps track of Internet traffic and trends, provides insight as to how many users are logged into the adult site and the time that the online surfers spent there.

According to the December 2005 survey, over 38 million people visited the adult web site, on average it took about 90 minutes.

Neilsen data shows that a significant number of Americans are visiting these sites, but analysts rely on individual payment and / or subscription schemes for each site, so which one There is no exact way to decide whether to spend money alone.

The amount of adult video news can not be confirmed individually and no one in the publication will immediately respond to the interview request

But it is growing. Analysis by Piper Jaffray reports that pornography and virtual reality will be a $ 1 billion business by 2025 and VR is the third largest segment of video games and NFL related content. Tracking the term Google's VR pornography search will also show that web users are more interested. Bringing pornography to other worlds opens up many possibilities. For example, in the virtual reality world, users can view pornographic content from a women's point of view, or easily check for gender changes without social unfair pressure. Users can try more exotic sex without judgment or risk.

Pornographic filtering is an important business goal for Search, a leading search Google and social media giant Facebook, which needs to do pornographic filtering to display clean content. People who sell online porn do not rush censoring. The old trick for porn seller is to take the deleted image and change the pixel to change the hidden image into an unblocked "new" image. However, as technology caught up, perception hushing has made it possible to identify pornographic content, as well as watermarks and other operations. In recent years, a convolution neural network (CNN) as a special image classifier has been used for content classification and filtering and the lack of pornographic images and non-erotic images on the internet to train these binary image classifiers There is no.

Erika Lust: Pornography is part of the reality of our lives. Due to the spread of the Internet and pornography, it has grown rapidly over the past decade, and pornography is the largest part of today's pornography. The content provided with these porn tubes is very racist, I dislike women and disgust. Parents can not ignore this as a child sees it online when he is very young. They will find it and observe it, which will affect their perception of sex and gender roles. Thus, when parents talk to children before or during discovery, they can help you think more analytically and critically about the image you are seeing.