Annual sales estimates for the sexually explicit, XXX-Rated, Adult Entertainment Industry (AEI) in the U.S. now range from $12 to $15 billion with world wide yearly revenue approaching $75 billion. There are over a billion Adult Internet downloads annually in the U.S. alone. One source estimates that there are over 4 million Adult internet web sites and another estimate suggests that 40% of all U.S. internet users access an Adult site at least once a month. The industry is huge, growing, and many big-name entertainment corporations are now involved in areas ranging from production to distribution.
From it's meager beginnings with the advent of home 8mm movies in the 1950's, which for the first time made it possible for erotic entertainment to be viewed in the privacy of one's home, the Adult Entertainment Industry has experienced exponential growth in recent years enabled first by the wide spread home use of the video cassette starting in the 1980's, and fueled more recently by DVD's and now the Internet. Today, erotic entertainment is readily available to everyone and is now a widely accepted form of entertainment. It is easily viewed by anyone almost anywhere from homes, to hotels, to the workplace, and even now on cell phones, tablets, and other mobile devices. The industry has matured enough to have it's own major trade shows, trade publications, super-stars, and annual awards banquets.
Due to this explosive growth, demand for
models and performing
As with other forms of modeling and acting there are opportunities for talent in the AEI to fit almost anyone's interests and abilities from first time performers with no initial experience to seasoned professionals. Modeling and performing in the adult field is now as medically safe as most other professions due to the stringent regular testing requirements enforced by reputable studios. To some, a benefit of the current size of the industry is that it's now routinely possible to earn good money as a model or performer while being reasonable sure that, if you choose, you wont likely ever be seen by family or friends. While there are no guarantees, the AEI has become so huge that the odds of anyone you know accidentally seeing your work are extremely low unless you become a widely known and distributed star or you tell them about it. Also, the effects of professional makeup, camera lighting, etc. can produce a deniability effect since most people don't look quit the same on camera which helps make you somewhat less recognizable. Once primarily known as pornography and produced in seedy locations by less-than-reputable firms, XXX rated Adult Entertainment has matured into an accepted and widely available form of entertainment produced and distributed by major name-brand companies.
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