"Do not doubt the fact that Sex sells. What makes the internet a particularly good medium is that people can from the privacy of their room or home access sexual sites and entretainment easily and with minimum effort. No more going to sex shops, parking the car out of site and sneeking in to see x-rated entretainment.
Many articles have appeared across the internet and newsprint which make this phenomenon even more obvious.The prestigious Wall Steet Journal, Tuesday, May 20, 1997 made reference to it
USA TODAY, Wednesday, August 20, "I never expected there would be income like this," Mansfield says. "The first checks were more money in a week than I made in a month. Welcome to the dawn of the mom & pop virtual sex shop." 1997
"They work out of a 22,000-sq.-ft. "cyber broadcast" facility in Pompano Beach, Fla., with all the facilities, including a gymnasium for its workers. The place cost $1.6 million. No problem, says Hirsch; his business was profitable three months after it opened its electronic doors. You do the math: IVG serves up roughly 8,000 peep-show minutes a day at $5.95 a minute, a weekly take of roughly $300,000. Hirsch just bought a big red Mercedes-Benz. Also a five-bedroom house." TIME magazine, May 18, 1998
"Almost anyone with some business savvy and a small investment can create a reasonably successful site, and make thousands of dollars within weeks, says Nancy Tamosaitis, author of The Penthouse Guide to Cybersex." USA TODAY, August 20, 1997
"How long will the appetite for cybersex last? "I figure we've got only 15% to 20% of our potential users online," he said. "The Internet is going to take off more than anyone will believe." TIME magazine, May 18, 1998
There are an estimated 70,000 sex-related web sites accounting for a sizable chunk of the US adult-entertainment industry. - MSNBC SURVEY '98
30% of American households with the internet access/visit adult sites at least once a month - NEW YORK BASED MEDIA MATRIX
Sex sites account for more than 1.2 billion dollars in revenues in 1977 - JAMES MANN, NAUGHTY LINX
Steve Becker, Independent Consultant to Penthouse Web Site puts the revenue closer to 3 billion in 1997
US News and World Report characterized sex in the United States as an 8 billion dollar industry in 1997 ... bigger than Hollywood...bigger than the record industry.

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