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Millennials were charged to own eliminating porno, but will they really be the of these to keep the in the long run?
“A few years ago,” says Alex Hawkins of the porn tube site xHamster, “there were predictions that [millennials] would be the death of the industry.” It is easy to scoff at such grim analyses, given the number of times millennials have been falsely blamed to have destroying away from marketplace. But there was a compelling logic to the porn world’s fears: While older generations grew up accustomed to paying for porn, millennials have grown up with easy access to an endless stream of free amateur or promo or pirated professional content.
People assumed, Hawkins explains, that this rising generation would never need or want to pay for porn again – and the industry would starve. But over the past year or so, he and others in the adult world have picked up on a surprising trend. Although many millennials do opt for free porn alone, a surprising number of them have started to shell out for adult content, at least on certain sites. They now actually make up the largest paying porn consumer base for several producers, outspending older generations substantially. All of which leads Hawkins to assert that “millennials may well be the find ud her saviors of the porn industry.”
The totally free pornography apocalypse
The availability of free porn really did do a number on traditional subscription-based porn companies. Porn finances are so murky that it is hard to find reliable figures, but most experts estimate that in the mid-aughts (before the rise of the tube sites, which began in 2007) the American porn industry was worth between $10 and $14 billion. Continue reading “Exactly how millennials is actually saving the fresh new porno business”