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cordoba · 02-03-2025, 01:42 AM

The "adult industry" is not so easy to define. I wonder if those figures include sex toys, for example?
I took a look at one of the sources given : https://www.360iresearch.com/library...-entertainment
I wouldn't be surprised if that was written by AI.

I remember when I was researching 3D TVs at the height of the fad when the first Avatar movie came out. There were countless reports like this stating that the 3DTV market would have a CAGR in the double digits for years to come.

I'd bet that the average poster on this forum has a more knowledgeable estimate of how much the adult industry is worth than the people or AIs behind these reports.

I find it hard to believe that it's worth 100 billion or more today. You'd expect if that was the case that affiliates would be making well over 1 billion, and if that was the case, this place woud be a little more lively, as well as having rival adult webmaster forums. Anti-porn campaigners like to massively inflate the estimated worth of the industry.

Furthermore, NOBODY can estimate what the adult industry will be worth in another 5 or 10 years. This isn't like predicting 2020 from 2015. Two things are happening that are bigger even than torrents and tube sites - a global momentum for age verification and ever tighter regulation, and photorealistic AI porn videos tailored to the viewer's personal tastes at the touch of a button or a voice prompt.

The adult industry could be worth a trillion dollars in another decade, or we could all be in prison, lol.

02-03-2025, 01:42 AM
cordoba Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 1,197	The "adult industry" is not so easy to define. I wonder if those figures include sex toys, for example? I took a look at one of the sources given : https://www.360iresearch.com/library...-entertainment I wouldn't be surprised if that was written by AI. I remember when I was researching 3D TVs at the height of the fad when the first Avatar movie came out. There were countless reports like this stating that the 3DTV market would have a CAGR in the double digits for years to come. I'd bet that the average poster on this forum has a more knowledgeable estimate of how much the adult industry is worth than the people or AIs behind these reports. I find it hard to believe that it's worth 100 billion or more today. You'd expect if that was the case that affiliates would be making well over 1 billion, and if that was the case, this place woud be a little more lively, as well as having rival adult webmaster forums. Anti-porn campaigners like to massively inflate the estimated worth of the industry. Furthermore, NOBODY can estimate what the adult industry will be worth in another 5 or 10 years. This isn't like predicting 2020 from 2015. Two things are happening that are bigger even than torrents and tube sites - a global momentum for age verification and ever tighter regulation, and photorealistic AI porn videos tailored to the viewer's personal tastes at the touch of a button or a voice prompt. The adult industry could be worth a trillion dollars in another decade, or we could all be in prison, lol.