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You may think you know a lot about porn (if you’re a typical guy, you probably do know your fair share), but the following 25 facts about the adult entertainment industry may surprise even the porn connoisseurs.
25. Jenna Jameson hasn’t starred in or been featured in a porn movie since 2007, yet she remains the highest earning porn star, grossing 30 million in 2012. The second highest grossing porn star is Tera Patrick at only 15 million.
24. If you have A-cup breasts or smaller, don’t count on getting seen in Australia. They have a ban on pornography featuring women with tiny breasts.
23. The majority of porn websites, free and paid, feature videos and clips they purchased from other developers. A small percentage of porn sites actually include original content.
22. Women watch porn. If a woman tells you she doesn’t, she is lying. More people are viewing porn than Hulu, Twitter and Facebook combined. It isn’t just the bros out there doing the porn-watching.
21. Porn controls digital media. A great example was VHS. Before everyone was on board with VHS, Betamax was fighting tooth and nail for control. Porn chose to use VHS tapes as its main source of distribution and the rest is history. Same can be said for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. Porn chose the former and now you can buy HD-DVDs for a dollar.
20. Porn does and doesn’t lead to sex crimes. That is a fact. There are about 4,000 studies proving one side or the other and not one of them is conclusive. So, until otherwise noted, porn doesn’t lead to sex crimes. Or maybe it does. We might never know.
19. Rule 34: If you ever wondered what “Rule 34” meant, wonder no more. It basically states that if anything exists, there is porn for it. For example, if you love to see women dressed as Mario having sex with guys dressed as Elmo, according to Rule 34, there is a porn out there for it.
18. Jackie Chan didn’t get his start in porn, but it did help. Back in 1975, he was struggling to break into the movie business so he did a couple adult films that featured little fighting and lots of crotch shots.
17. If you thought having a family member star in porn was awkward, try having both of your parents star in it. Movie star Thora Birch knows the feeling as both of her parents started off as porn actors and even had roles in the porn classic “Deep Throat.”
16. Thanksgiving is the least popular single day of the year to view porn. The most popular day of the week for porn viewing? Sundays.
15. If real life was a porno, nothing would ever get accomplished. It would just be a world full of people having sex. Everywhere.
14. People in South Korea have to use their version of a Social Security number to access any porn material online.
13. North Korea pretty much sucks anyway, but if you are caught viewing porn there the punishment is death.
12. It is tough to research how porn affects a man’s love life because almost every single man watches porn. A University of Montreal researcher tried conducting such a study, but when he attempted to put together a control group of men in their 20s who hadn’t consumed porn, he couldn’t find a single one.
11. Which state in the U.S. has the largest consumption of porn per capita? Utah. That’s right folks, that was not a typo. Bet you didn’t see that coming.
10. Almost 60 percent of Mississippi is white but the number one most searched porn term is “ebony” followed by “gay black.”
9. The largest porn network in the world sets up shop in Canada. Those crazy Canucks had to be good at something else besides hockey, and it looks like we found it.
8. Even though it is illegal to broadcast pornography in some countries, if you stay at a hotel, they are exempt to satisfy all international visitors. Besides, close to 70 of room service revenue comes from ordering porn. So don’t be bashful – everyone is doing it.
7. For every man who thinks he can start a career in porn, good luck. Unless you have connections or a smoking hot woman willing to join you, a guy’s chances of becoming a porn star are slim t
o none.
6. The most searched porn-related term in America is “MILF.” The second most searched is “teen.” For all the bettors at home, “anal” comes in tenth.
5. What feature on the female body do you think men focus on most during a porn viewing? Surprisingly, it isn’t the ass, breasts or legs. It’s the face.
4. At any second of the day worldwide, nearly 30 million unique visitors are viewing porn. So when you are sitting around the house during the day and think you are the only person creepy enough to be porn surfing, think again. In fact, for a 30-second porn clip, almost a million people have joined in on the action.
3. Male porn performers do not bring home all that much bacon. They can make more money performing in gay porn than straight porn – up to three times as much per film, in fact. This is known as “gay for pay.”
2. Just about half of the Internet is made up of porn or porn-related content.
1. In 2001, there were around 70,000 adult websites. Today, just 13 years later, they are more than 4.2 million pornographic websites in the U.S. alone. It does not take a math major to figure out that increase is tremendous. Either people are lying about watching porn or people are lying about watching porn.
And now you know.
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