The Porn industry is one of the most prolific genres in terms of number and money. Do you know how the porn industry works? Do you think it makes a profit for the actors and production? How did it start? Here are the answers to these questions.
How did the porn industry start?
In one of the years of life on earth in 1896, a movie that was not more than a minute long, it was the first kiss in the history of cinema, the first kiss that was shown to the public.
After the film was shown, there was an uproar, and the scene was condemned as horrific and obscene to moviegoers and caused the Roman Catholic Church to call for censorship and moral reform for openly kissing at this time causing a court case.
How did porn industry develop?
It was produced by Thomas Edison, due to his great inventions, he produced the world's first kiss in a movie, but I would not call him the first pornographic photographer in the world, given that he is a great inventor who benefited the world.
In this era of time, development was happening every month in sound, image and recording, and development in almost everything.
The porn industry was evolving from pictures of nude women being sold, to print sex magazines being sold, to DVD movie studios being sold to cable TV channels.
Porn producers and makers were making a lot of money, but with the advent of the Internet in the late 1990s, it changed the way porn movies were distributed, just as the Internet almost changed the world and turned the tables, the entire media industry, including porn, also changed.
In the early 2000's the majority of porn sites were subscription based.
How does the porn industry work?
The porn giant, a private Canadian company that focuses primarily on Internet pornography called MindGeek.
Although legally registered in Luxembourg, it operates mainly from Canada, with headquarters in Montreal, and additional offices in Dublin, London, Hamburg, Bucharest, Nicosia, Los Angeles, Miami and San Diego.
It owns and operates well-known and popular porn sites such as:
- Pornhub
- RedTube
- YouPorn
- Brazzers
- Digital Playground
- Men.com
- WhyNotBi.com
- Reality Kings
- Sean Cody
The company that runs this was founded in 2004 by people who are:
- Stephane Manos
- Oussam Youssef
- Matt Keezer.
It is the largest porn company that owns both free and paid websites, an ad network, and professional porn studios.
But their sites are almost free now, right? They do not ask for subscriptions or external advertisements for companies, and the existing advertisements are often for other porn sites and are often owned by the same company that runs.
The world's first digital advertising company "GoogleAdsence" responsible for advertising on YouTube or on websites does not allow ads to be shown on porn platforms, and is blocked from traditional advertising outlets, despite the huge numbers that visit porn sites daily. They do not rely on ads to make money .
Is the porn industry profitable?
In 2018, PornHUB achieved 33 billion visits, 92 million daily, and produces about 11,000 pornographic films each year.
They use the double advertising strategy to increase views, an advertisement for a porn site on another porn site, and so on, some of them also depend on keeping you watching porn for as long as possible and showing a clip or part of a movie, and if you want to watch the full movie, subscribe and pay a fee.
Porn sites are designed to make you search and watch, to offer their commercial publications for sale, and some of them even have agents for the manufacture of sex products and to know what sex products are.
Therefore, porn sites are an economic competitor in the American economy just like Netflix, the porn industry has more budgets than the budget of countries, huge industries and this huge industry is estimated at 100 billion dollars, according to Business Insider.
Websites in general and PornHUB in particular make money in an indirect and restricted way, create new business models, and have the potential for the economic power of the industry.
As new technologies emerge day by day, they develop new ways to make profits. But for the huge amount of attention the world has to them and the staggering number of visits, they didn't get much.
What are the wages of porn actors?
The industry is huge, but wages are low, do you know Mia Khalifa? A retired former pornographic actress ranked as one of the most watched women in 2015.
She tweeted, "I only earned $12,000 from acting in pornographic films." Acting in porn films is not as easy, enjoyable or profitable as they appear, on the contrary, from a functional point of view, there is tremendous pressure to represent extremist acts in the film and the possibility of them being exposed to injury and disease.
The more extreme the work, the more you will earn. With the adage “one job is not enough”, many actors work in prostitution to increase income, and all this tiring work and pressures that overcome their energy depend on sexual drugs to endure long filming scenes that extend for hours to provoke and satisfy the viewer.
A retired porn actor named “Chris” says I ended my cinematic career in sex movies because of the damages I had done from taking the drugs and I warned of strong harms if I continued to take the drugs.
The actors' wages range between $700 to $1,000 per film, and they work because of their need for living conditions, not their need for sex.
The profits of a movie or two are enough to live for a month, and if they want to save more money, they shoot more movies and therefore more medicine.
What are the harmful effects of porn sites?
On the Internet, there are about 25 million porn sites, working to keep people on the site to urge them to watch more movies, and keep you in the cycle of searching for fun.
The sites nurture millions of people, make them feel comfortable, adapt and enjoy from sexual abuse, physical and verbal aggression.
And when watching movies frequently, you will want to imitate the acting behavior in the movie's story, and the brain will be shaped and it will make you feel that things are normal, and will turn into an often useless enjoyment.
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