- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (30 Aug 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415931037
- ISBN-13: 978-0415931038
- Product Dimensions: 22.1 x 14.7 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,713,365 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
The First Half of This Book is a Liberal Education
1 May 2000
Format:Hardcover
Don't let the (literally) clueless title turn you off. This is an impressive tour de force. The first half is a concise, entertaining, and enormously informative history of technology and its effects on our social customs and ways of looking at the world. Lane's grasp of mountains of material and his ability to concisely summarize it are awesome. Since I am in a related field, I intended to skim it, but was drawn into reading every word. The second half is more specialized, but is only tangentially devoted to "obscene profits" (that awful title looks like a publicists's handiwork). It poignantly conveys the ways the new technology reveals for the first time that men's obsession with pornography is of epidemic proportions.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Now we know
10 May 2000
Format:Hardcover
Ever since I was a little boy, I was interested in the world surrounding pornography business. Do they ever have an economic downturn or require a bailout? I have grown older and even more intrigued, it is amazing to find out how this cottage/back alley industry, has grown to be a major influence in today's society and economy. Obscene Profits neatly illustrates the hard changes the porn industry has had to make to last the distance and in the meantime fueling many would-be Hollywood actress's dreams. Even for people who are disgusted by pornography will be interested in this book's portrayal of an industry that has touched almost everyone and created its own entrepreneurs.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Must Read for those who want to grow rich in a growing niche
5 April 2000
Format:Hardcover
This is an excellent book, written with a lawyer's research habits and a computer scientist's discipline. For anyone interested in the most profitable industry segment of the new economy, this is required reading material. It is interesting, entertaining, and informative. Pick it up, but know the following. Money doesn't mean power. It means freedom.
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