WGST 2812 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pamela Paul, Content-Control Software, Livejasmin

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 2812
• Professor: Lori Stinson

Document Summary

Wgst 2812 [re]presenting gender & sex: consuming mediated sex, sexuality & *all content belongs to lori a. stinson & where cited in lecture slides* Source: ogi ogas & sai gaddam billion wicked thoughts. 2005 article estimated 37-80% of internet traffic was in porn. Livejasmin gets around 32 million visitors per month (2. 5% of all internet users more than pornhub or redtube) Republican states have highest porn subscription rates. 1975: american porn industry estimates as worth 5-10 million: 2014 believed to bring in 13 billion, more revenue than netflix, google, ebay, yahoo, amazon, microsoft & apple, 100 million per yr in la alone. 1999: 711 million rental of hardcore films (new york times 2000) 11 300 hardcore films released in 2002. 1991: fewer than 90 porn magazines published in us. 70% of consumption = straight men watching alone. Estimate 420 million porn pages on line (2008) 13 000 videos released each year & 900 million videos rented.