Is porn a legitimate business to go in to?

Lately I have been debating with a lot of people on The Escapist about porn, and how it is a legitimate business and/or career to choose. However, many who argue against me say that only women (they never mention men) that go into porn do it because they have no self respect, dignity, no other way to get money and so on. One went so far to say that most are forced prostitutes.

So how do you guys at The Crimson Flame feel about this?

Is porn a real career, or a real dumb decision?

imo It's a career, it's just within a field that is generally frowned upon by the masses. Half of said masses also watch it tho, which is rather fun.

How is not watching porn relevant to this discussion?

BBJynne wrote:How is not watching porn relevant to this discussion?

If you don't watch or view the work, you can't really have an unbiased opinion about it.

You can still be informed.

BBJynne wrote:You can still be informed.

True, I'll remove it

EDIT:

Nevermind, can't do that.

Oh well, it'll be the joke option I guess

Petty much what RX said.

There's a lot of people in this world that believe sex is that of a sacred and special moment between two people that isn't something meant to be had for "funzies" or sold for entertainment. So it being a carrer for somebody to make a profit off of, doesn't sit right with them. Of course, lots of other reasons too.

And that's all fine and dandy, they can believe in whatever they want. I'm not saying they're wrong in thinking that way at all, this is just one of my understandings as to why they have that opinion. But when it comes right down to it, yes it is a business and yes it's also a carrer oportunity.

"In 2005, there were approximately 425 films released in Hollywood, including a Star Wars prequel and a Harry Potter movie, with domestic grosses of $8.597 billion. That's very impressive. In 2006, the cumulative grosses for porn videos in the U.S., leveraging video sales, rentals, mobile phone content and Internet revenues--came out to....

Are you ready?

$8.65 billion.

About the same, and that's minus the billions Hollywood spends on promotion. Oh, and we're going to take a wild guess and say that the combined budgets of every porno shot that year wouldn't even pay for the CGI in the opening credits of a Harry Potter movie. So, yeah, we're thinking that $8.65 billion is pretty much all profit."





"So toys.com, that's got to be the most expensive domain name ever, right?

Not even close. Not even the 1999 sale of business.com at $7.5 million (a record at the time) makes the top. No, topping them all is, you guessed it, Sex.com, at a jaw-dropping $14 million."





"Microsoft, purveyor of the operating system used on most of the computers in the world, reported 2008 profits in excess of $16 billion. ExxonMobil, the world's largest publicly traded company and number five on Forbes' top 2000 companies, posted 2008 profits of $40.6 billion.

In 2006, the sum of international revenues from pornographic videos, sexual novelties, magazines, "dance" clubs, pay-per-view and Internet was approximately $97 billion.

Can you even wrap your mind around that number? Try it this way: that's larger than the combined annual revenues of the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball.

This means $3,075.64 is being spent on pornography internationally every second. To put that in perspective, when ExxonMobil posted a quarterly profit of $11.7 billion last year, the largest in American history, they were effectively making $1,947 less per second than the world of filth mongers"



http://www.cracked.com/article_17300_6-ways-that-porn-runs-world_p1.html#ixzz1YLslpkUn

I don't see anything NOT legitimate about those numbers





Also that is quite possibly the first legitimate post i've made in the Debate Section.

People pay money to look at porn?

BBJynne wrote:People pay money to look at porn?

People pay money for free TF2 items. After that, teh pronz seems like a worthwhile expense, where the more expensive stuff is exclusive and good.

Good porn costs money.



Like good drugs.

So most people look at porn for free and its STILL making those kinds of numbers!!!



Imagine if EVERYONE payed for porn.


O_o

I think it is a legitmate business, but not a career. Not as an actor, at least. It's a young person's game, if you start at 18 you will probably only be able to do it for 3-4 years, and then you get bumped out by younger people. So a good job? Yes. A good career? Not exactly.

Their is a market for older people though.


Older become teachers for the school girls.



Get to OLD stage well....


There is a market for EVERYTHING.