Bailout for the Porn Industry

This is what scared me when we started the bail out with the banks. Every industry that has problem is going to ask for a hand out.

What is so sad is that it will probably happen.Some added"pork" in one of the bills.Okay that was a terrible attempt at a joke.I`m sorry.

looks like we are gonna have big government in everything. i sure hope this doesnt happen for democracy and capitalism sake!

Hey... I got yer' bailout right here!

What the porn industry needs is a good... stiff... TAX!

While exact figure a difficult to assess, most agree that it's a MULTI-BILLION dollar, and LARGELY UNTAXED industry.

In the LA Daily News article "Stimulus package for porn industry?" Larry Flynt (Hustler magazine) and Joe Francis (Girls Gone Wild videos) claimed the value of the pornography industry was at least $18 BILLION "three years ago."

One 22-year old woman whom calls herself "Jenna Presley" said she has at least 1000 customers whom pay $20 month to watch her perform sexual acts online. That works out to $240,000 year... not exactly chump change for one young woman.

She said of her prostitution business that "I've got to stop paying guys and girls to perform with." And of others whom pay for sex she said that "Instead of paying a girl $2,000 for a boy-girl {scene}, now they're trying to pay $1,200."

Forbes business magazine in their 2001 article "how Big Is Porn?" cited porn industry trade magazine Adult Video News that "Americans spent just over $4 billion to buy and rent adult videos last year." However, even AVN magazine's own managing editor, Mike Ramone said of revenues pornography generates that, "I don't know the exact methodology. It's a pie chart." Adams Media Research said of pornography that "no one tracks the adult video business with any rigor or precision."

Forbes' article cited that, "in 1998, Forrester did publish a report on the online "adult content" industry, which it pegged at $750 million to $1 billion in annual revenue."

That article - which by no means is the exclusive nor authoritative source - suggestst that the dollar value of pornography in the United States alone was approximately $2.6 - $3.9 BILLION.

The sources cited included Adams Media Research, Forrester Research, Veronis Suhler Communications Industry Report, IVD.

However, there IS a way in which the dollar revenues could be assessed.

United States Code, Title 18, Part I, Chapter 110, Section 2257 - (sometimes more commonly referred to as "18 USC 2257," or simply "2257") - affects those whom create a "visual depiction of actual sexually explicit conduct" and requires them to "maintain the records required by this section at his business premises" and to "make such records available to the Attorney General for inspection at all reasonable times."

Specifically, and in simple terms, it requires that positive proof of identity be required to be kept by those persons producing sexually explicit conduct.

This law was enacted after it was discovered that Traci Lords had performed numerous sexual acts in many pornographic videos beginning at age 15. Federal prosecutors claimed between 80-100 were produced by age 18.

Were there to be a tax assesssed - in much the same manner a there now is for liquor - upon the sale or distribution of every article upon which a 2257 is required, it would be one way of accounting for the revenues generated by pornography and prostitution.

Now... this idea has nothing to do with the TRUE cost of pornography and prostitution, such as child pornography, sexual crimes, drugs and the whole stinking mess that that rides along with pornography.

Youporn.com is a major factor in putting the adult sex industry in the hole. Amateurs doing the nasty for free. Definitely one "industry" Uncle Sam should writeoff.

The very fact that this is even a possibility is a sad commentary on our times. People can't pay their mortgages, feed their families or keep the cars they need to get to work and we even consider bailing out the porn industry???!!! We have fallen to a new low....

Hookers, perverts, and pedophiles need love, too.

And, Congress is there to give it to them!