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> Reliable revenue and employment figures for the adult industry don't exist, since no analysts or economists track it. Adult Video News estimated in 2006 that

> Reliable revenue and employment figures for the adult industry don't exist, since no analysts or economists track it. Adult Video News estimated in 2006 that it was worth $13 billion... Those two sentences together seem bizarre. Estimated at $13B, and yet no analysts or economists are evaluating the business? That can't just be because of a puritan aversion to porn...?

anamax 17y ago
> Those two sentences together seem bizarre. Estimated at $13B, and yet no analysts or economists are evaluating the business? That can't just be because of a puritan aversion to porn...? Analysts make their money selling research to investors and the like. Since very little of the porn industry is public (Playboy, Hustler, and Penthouse) and there's little chance of that changing, there's no market for research.
- SwellJoe 17y ago
  Whatever happened to the planned Penthouse/FriendFinder IPO? It actually had some significant coverage in the industry, and would have been the first significant public porn company (aside from some of the mainstream media companies that have soft core porn subsidiaries).