QUOTE(Gnappster @ Nov 21 2006, 06:01 PM)
So I was reading Joe Rogan's blog (he's the dude from fear factor but he is lesser known but far better as a standup comic and the reason I check out his site is cuz he is a HUGE UFC fan and does commentating fro them too). I often check it out cuz it is funny, and he rambles on a lot about why we are here, planes of consciousness, religion, etc etc. It's probably cuz he smokes a lot of pot and DMT but it's interesting all the same.
Anyway I came across this fact when reading his "Porno Party" he was forced to attend story:
"Pornography in this country rakes in over 12 billion a year. I mean, that is an immense amount of money. To put that into perspective, porn revenue is larger than the revenues of all professional football, baseball and basketball franchises COMBINED. It’s also double what the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, and NBC are."That's fuckin insane! I always knew it would be high but to take in more money than those big franchises is unbelievable!
But I recommend checking out his site,
http://www.joerogan.net/main.php , just to read the porno party story. It's near the bottom, but a lot of the other entires are pretty good too.

What's funnier still is that while porn is such a huge money-making industry, look at how many people know how to get it for free. This world is run primarily by sex, which all makes sense to me.
More interesting than the amount of money that porn brings in is its power to dictate other industries as well. allow me to expound:
BETA video is far superior in image quality than VHS. And the tapes are much smaller. however, which one won dominated the market across the land??? VHS of course. You know why??? Porn. That's right, boys and girls. Porn. supposedly the BETA people did not want the image associated with supplying porn on their medium, so they refused. VHS picked up the ball and drove the market into a VHS-dominated frenzy.
Move forward to when people got sick and tired of VHS's grainy quality and the DVD was released. DVD had a very big struggle at the beginning, tougher than the laser disc (if you remember that failure). However, DVD's introduction of the porn industry helped the DVD boom into the new standard. Imagine, porn with high quality video... and who the fuck else do you think actually makes use out of that stupid "angle" button on your remote??? That's right, the porn makers. Three or more different angles of some stupid pizza delivery guy with a donger the size of a baseball bat fucking the shit out of some big-tittied bitch with nothing better to do than place a bogus pizza order when her husband is at work fucking his secretary (that's the interlaced scene). 90 minutes of action, 3 angles for viewing, 5 minutes a pop... that's 54 sessions of fresh material per DVD. Technology kicks ass!!!
Can't wait to see what BluRay porn looks like.
The above post is a compilation of shit i've read on the Internet over the years... meaning: it must be true!