DeJennaration: Pornography Is Booming
AVN recently held it's annual AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. The news? Porno is a growing industry:
In the first quantitative study conducted in three years, Adult Video News estimates consumers spent $12.6 billion on adult entertainment last year.
Nearly $4.3 billion, or 34%, came from the purchase or rental of adult video DVDs and videocassettes. Another 20%, or $2.5 billion, was generated through Internet sales, with the third-largest segment -- dance clubs -- generating about $2 billion, or 16% of the market.
Adult software providers also remain at the forefront of technology. They were among the first to embrace DVD when the format hit the market nine years ago and are now aggressively going after high-definition and other new formats, including such hand-held devices as cell phones and game players. Digital Playground, one of the adult industry's top software suppliers, recently released a $2 million film, "Pirates," which was shot entirely in high definition. It was released on video in a three-disc set, two of them standard DVDs and the third in HD.
"Right now, most consumers can't play the HD disc because next-generation players aren't yet on the market," said Martin Blythe, spokesman for the Video Software Dealers Assn., which co-sponsored the show with AVN. "But the point is, these companies are already ahead of the curve."
Indeed, Digital Playground just announced that it will issue trailers for upcoming movies in HD and also make them available for playback on iPod and Sony's PlayStation Portable.
"We've been shooting everything in HD for more than two years, and the playback technology is finally available on Web consumers," company founder Joone said.
Why the booming interest in pornography? Why not just find yourself a partner and do the real thing as opposed to watching other people go at it? I just don't get it.
"...most of my family is pretty ashamed of what I do."-Savannah Samson
This may surprise you Savannah, but having a daughter grow up to be a porn star isn't exactly most parents' fondest dream. Hahahaha! By the way, AVN Award Winner Jesse Jane(probably not her real name, hehe) is a fucking dimwit and at age 37, Janine Lindemulder is an aging ho-bag. Washed-up boxer and convicted rapist(now paroled from prison) Mike Tyson was also at the AVN expo. He took time to drool over porn starlets and basically do what he does best...make a complete ass of himself. Special guests at the AVN expo were some World of Warcraft charachters entertaining convention-goers with a song and dance routine.
Maybe I'm in the wrong line of work. I'll be getting married soon. Maybe her and I should just get a video camera, film our sexual exploits, and sell the videos on ebay.
I'm kidding, people! I'M KIDDING!!! I'd never do that for the following reasons:
1)I'm a Christian. Good Christians just don't do that sort of thing.
2)The only sane person in the world who wants to see me naked is my future wife(she has bad taste in men, you see ;-)).
Oh well, I'll be leaving for work in a while. Have a nice weekend, everybody!
In the first quantitative study conducted in three years, Adult Video News estimates consumers spent $12.6 billion on adult entertainment last year.
Nearly $4.3 billion, or 34%, came from the purchase or rental of adult video DVDs and videocassettes. Another 20%, or $2.5 billion, was generated through Internet sales, with the third-largest segment -- dance clubs -- generating about $2 billion, or 16% of the market.
Adult software providers also remain at the forefront of technology. They were among the first to embrace DVD when the format hit the market nine years ago and are now aggressively going after high-definition and other new formats, including such hand-held devices as cell phones and game players. Digital Playground, one of the adult industry's top software suppliers, recently released a $2 million film, "Pirates," which was shot entirely in high definition. It was released on video in a three-disc set, two of them standard DVDs and the third in HD.
"Right now, most consumers can't play the HD disc because next-generation players aren't yet on the market," said Martin Blythe, spokesman for the Video Software Dealers Assn., which co-sponsored the show with AVN. "But the point is, these companies are already ahead of the curve."
Indeed, Digital Playground just announced that it will issue trailers for upcoming movies in HD and also make them available for playback on iPod and Sony's PlayStation Portable.
"We've been shooting everything in HD for more than two years, and the playback technology is finally available on Web consumers," company founder Joone said.
Why the booming interest in pornography? Why not just find yourself a partner and do the real thing as opposed to watching other people go at it? I just don't get it.
"...most of my family is pretty ashamed of what I do."-Savannah Samson
This may surprise you Savannah, but having a daughter grow up to be a porn star isn't exactly most parents' fondest dream. Hahahaha! By the way, AVN Award Winner Jesse Jane(probably not her real name, hehe) is a fucking dimwit and at age 37, Janine Lindemulder is an aging ho-bag. Washed-up boxer and convicted rapist(now paroled from prison) Mike Tyson was also at the AVN expo. He took time to drool over porn starlets and basically do what he does best...make a complete ass of himself. Special guests at the AVN expo were some World of Warcraft charachters entertaining convention-goers with a song and dance routine.
Maybe I'm in the wrong line of work. I'll be getting married soon. Maybe her and I should just get a video camera, film our sexual exploits, and sell the videos on ebay.
I'm kidding, people! I'M KIDDING!!! I'd never do that for the following reasons:
1)I'm a Christian. Good Christians just don't do that sort of thing.
2)The only sane person in the world who wants to see me naked is my future wife(she has bad taste in men, you see ;-)).
Oh well, I'll be leaving for work in a while. Have a nice weekend, everybody!