Obscene Profits: Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age

Sex sells. Already a ten-billion dollar business-and growing-most sex businesses require relatively low start-up costs and minimal equipment. No wonder retired porn stars, homemakers, college students, and entrepreneurs of every stripe are eager to jump on the smut band wagon. Following the money trail, or in this case, the telecom routes, the author reveals how some big phone companies are cashing in too. Obscene Profits offers a startling and entertaining new look at this very old business, and shows why pornography, in all of its variations--videos, magazines, phone-sex, spy cameras, etc.-- is one of the most profitable and popular new careers to come out of the electronic age.

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Obscene Profits: Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age

Sex sells. Already a ten-billion dollar business-and growing-most sex businesses require relatively low start-up costs and minimal equipment. No wonder retired porn stars, homemakers, college students, and entrepreneurs of every stripe are eager to jump on the smut band wagon. Following the money trail, or in this case, the telecom routes, the author reveals how some big phone companies are cashing in too. Obscene Profits offers a startling and entertaining new look at this very old business, and shows why pornography, in all of its variations--videos, magazines, phone-sex, spy cameras, etc.-- is one of the most profitable and popular new careers to come out of the electronic age.

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Obscene Profits: Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age

Obscene Profits: Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age

by Frederick Lane
Obscene Profits: Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age

Obscene Profits: Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age

by Frederick Lane

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Overview

Sex sells. Already a ten-billion dollar business-and growing-most sex businesses require relatively low start-up costs and minimal equipment. No wonder retired porn stars, homemakers, college students, and entrepreneurs of every stripe are eager to jump on the smut band wagon. Following the money trail, or in this case, the telecom routes, the author reveals how some big phone companies are cashing in too. Obscene Profits offers a startling and entertaining new look at this very old business, and shows why pornography, in all of its variations--videos, magazines, phone-sex, spy cameras, etc.-- is one of the most profitable and popular new careers to come out of the electronic age.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781135115708
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 07/23/2001
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 330
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Frederick Lane

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. A Brief History of Pornography and Technology 2. Voyeur Viewing Pleasure 3. The Thin Blue Line 4. The Risky Business of Online Pornography 5. Phone Sex: The First National Pornography Network 6. The Search for Satisfaction 7. Honey, is that Really You? 8. All the Web's a Stage 9. The Future of Online Sexual Entrepreneurship

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