Are you inadvertently making money from the porn industry

Posted by admin on 6 September, 2009 under General business discussion | 4 Comments to Read

If you have a pension scheme or if you own shares then the likelihood is that you are making money from the porn industry!

I have just watched a program on BBC 2 about the porn industry and who makes money from it…it was interesting to note that this was not just the porn film makers. In addition to the makers of porn you have the hotel chains that sell porn in their bedrooms; the phone companies like Vodafone that make money from porn on mobiles; companies like Virgin and B Sky B make money from showing adult films on their channels; there are the credit card companies that take their cut from the sales or porn, which are owned by the banks…and so on.

It depends on your view of porn and whether this bothers you or not, but I would bet that most people do not realise this and there are many that would probably try to change this if they did know!

There was a financial expert on the show who was asked what percentage of the UK stock market would be involved in porn to some extent or not and this was just 5%, so therefore not a huge issue for those that want to avoid this type of investment.

At the end of the day no matter whether we like it or not sex sells and porn is going to be with us forever and makes billions of dollars every year!