A lot of us watch porn. It’s widely common among all ages for many reasons. For most of us, it’s all about the video we’re watching but not many thought about the history of it and how such a huge industry started.
Here’s 36 Shocking Info About The Porn Industry!
1- The Pornography tern first appeared in an Oxford English dictionary in 1857.
2- Some say that the first movie was produced in 1896 and it was only 18 seconds and published by Thomas Edison company.
3-Many Hollywood actors started their careers in the porn industry like Sylvester Stallone and was paid 200 dollars before his iconic role in Rocky which was produced in 1976. Jackie Chan who started his acting career in a movie produced in Hong Kong. Arnold Schwarzenegger also started his acting career in this industry by publishing his body in gay magazines.
4- The seventies was the golden era for porn industry. It was even allowed in cinemas with the most profitable movie scoring up to 30 million dollars which was produced in 1972 and costing 45 thousand dollars.
5- Many actors in the eighties died of HIV.
6- Since the spread of AIDS among actors in the eighties, producers started making periodic checks to actors and actresses.
7- Some may think this industry is random but it’s NOT! There’s actually a union called Free Speech Coalition to protect producers and keeping their rights.
8- There’re many famous festivals and celebrations honoring porn actors with prizes.
9- Some people think that what happens in the movie is true and negate the fact that the whole thing is an act based on an agreement between the actors and the movie itself is put in the hands of a director for the best image quality.
10- Contrary to what some think, actors and actresses aren’t in it for the pleasure, they’re in it for making money and fame. That IS their first objective.
11- Gay scenes are worth triple the price of straight scenes.
12- Many actors take drugs and injections before the scene to help them act well in order for the performance to be in a great shape.
13- Large pen*ses don’t necessarily have to be real all the time, some of it due to lighting effects.
14- Many think that studios compete with each other ,while it might be true, all the famous studios are owned by one global company MindGeek.
15- They hired employees who’s job to arouse actors before the scenes.
16- The porn industry revenue exceeds football’s and baseball’s revenue combined!
17- The industry depended on all the communication methods from the beginning of time ( writing on stones and walls ) to the most recent high technology and sometimes being the reason why some modern technologies was developed.
18- Around 30% of the websites on the internet are porn material.
19- 12 ago there was about 170 thousand adult website around the world. In 2014 there was about 4.2 million websites in USA alone.
20- Each second there’s about 30 thousand people watching adult material.
21- The average first time watching porn age is 11 years old.
22- the most used website announced that it gets more than 2 million people on their website around 1 am.
23- There’s about 200 thousand american porn addict.
24- from the age of 8 to 16 years old, there’re 9 children out of 10 who watched porn.
25- Â 8% of the world emails are porn related.
26- 25% of the search words on the internet are porn related.
27- 35% of the downloads on the internet are adult movies.
28- Saturday is the most day in which porn movies are searched for on the internet.
29- Thanks giving is the least day in which porn movies are searched for.
30- A study shows that most men who watch porn focus only on the face.
31- About 116 thousand search for child porn.
32- 20% of people watch porn during work.
33- In USA, there’s a new porn video each 39 minutes.
34- About 35% of who watch adult material are women.
35- The industry makes around 3 thousand dollars each second.
36- The highest movie cost was one million dollar and was produced in 2005.
