How Porn Secretly Runs The World

Before you even start this paper I want you to close your eyes, well not really because you need to read this, but think of the internet. It’s massive. 182 million websites (according to Google in 2009). 182 million is a lot. Now I want you to think of all of the different websites you use daily. Check the news, email, Facebook, Google. Whatever it is you kids are doing on there. Now picture all of the Internet again. 66% of it is porn. Yes you read that correctly.

Porn is inescapable. Every second 372 people are searching for porn on Google or some other search engine. Every 39 minutes another adult film is being filmed in America. In 2009 13,588 adult films were produced, that’s 37 films out per day! Does it really come as a surprise though? Whether you like it or not it is a big industry, making $97.6 billion dollars in global revenue. That’s almost $100 billion dollars. Let me show you how big that number is, 100,000,000,000. That’s more money than everyone who reads this paper will make in their life, put together. How does an industry like this start though? I mean it didn’t just come out of nowhere.

In fact porn is older than you might think. It can be traced as far back as the beginning of mankind! But it was not the modern concept of pornography until the Victorian Era (1837-1901). Lets take a trip to the Paleolithic age. Here you would find cavemen, primitive hunting tools, and crappy houses that were actually caves. In these caves was art all over the walls! Pictures of epic hunts, early religious beliefs and people doing it. That’s right some of the oldest art in the history of man was people drawing themselves naked on the wall.
If we time travel forward to Europe in the 1500’s we could see some of the greatest art that the world has and will ever see! With prints becoming less expensive it was not uncommon for people to have them in their house. Pictures of important historical events, past and present rulers, and more people doing it. These are drawings; very detailed I might add, of people having sex. Is that really something that you would want to decorate your house with? Jump forward again to 1839.

1839 was a year of great importance. The first opium war started, the first electric telegraph was sent, and Louis Daguerre invented a new way to print photos so that they would take better quality and detail and would not fade with time. One of the first things that people thought was, “great! We finally have a way to capture the female form in detail!” What they actually meant was, “Awesome! I’m going to take pictures of naked chicks and make a magazine!”


It’s not porn! If it’s in black and white it’s.called photography.
Than a few years later in 1880 with the help of photographs and Halftone pornography hit a new medium, the magazine. The magazines would feature prostitutes and woman in brothels as models, naked of course. In the 1940’s the magazines would start to feature larger pictures of woman that would be pulled out of magazines and posted on walls by World War II solders, this what coined the term “pinup.”

The next thing to come out was the technological advance, the motion picture. Right out of the gate the first thing made was porn. The film was called “What The Butler Saw.” It was a film that was shot through a keyhole in a door, through the hole could be seen a woman getting undressed.




This is the man you can thank for adult films, think of him next time you watch em.


Now if you will think back to the late 1970’s and early 1980’s there was a war going on. Not Vietnam or the cold war. The war between VHS and Betamax. Both of these were fighting to become the way that people would view home entertainment. We know now that VHS won the war but do you know why? Yes that’s right because of porn. The porn industry decided that it would only release on VHS, this crushed the Betamax market and brought in VHS. It happened again not to long ago. When Blu-Ray was up against HD DVD, Blu- Ray won for the same reason. So in a way the porn industry is deciding how we view our entertainment.
Keeping on the topic of video entertainment if you look at the chart with this paper you can see the growth of the porn industry to the film industry. Since 2006 more people have spent money-viewing porn than viewing normal movies. Take that Avatar!
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Another thing to think about is Avatar cost almost $500 million dollars, they had to invent new technoligy, they had to rent expensive equipment, they had to spend millons on CGI sepecal effects. The average adult film costs around $300 to make. Buy some lights, a camera and were good to go! What I’m getting at here is that these movies are almost 100% profit. So why not make one? What do you have to lose? I mean $97 billion dollars….
Further reading led me to find out the Californa is the state the produces the most adult entertainment in the world.









You just couldn't stick to normal films could you?

Its not just Hollywood that is making these videos. A city called San Fernando Valley. Not only is this town where most of the porn in the United States is filmed, this is the town that practically invented the adult film. In other news California is currently trying to press a law making violent video games illigal. Nice going.


Another thing to look into, as I stated earlier, every second 372 people are searching for porn online. That’s a lot of people. That’s enough to be the number one thing that people search for online. That means that more people are looking up porn than anything all the time forever! Well wait that’s wrong. The only time that people used the internet to look up something else besides porn was during the 2008 presidental election when, for a full 10 mintutes, people looked up “Obama”. Good job humanity, we aren’t 100% lost… yet.