Good New Yorker article (book review) on the state of pornography in the US. It doesn't talk about the web cam industry. It's mainly about the decline of the old school porn movie studio system in LA and what's replaced them. It also looks at the feminist political critique of porn, and briefly, the effects of porn on the actors and the consumers. Some quotes:
- Applications for porn-shoot permits in Los Angeles County reportedly fell by ninety-five per cent between 2012 and 2015.
- According to a recent CNBC report, seventy per cent of American online-porn access occurs during the nine-to-five workday.
- The majority of the world’s tube sites are effectively a monopoly—owned by a company called MindGeek, whose bandwidth use exceeds that of Amazon or Facebook