The FINANCIAL — The rise of internet usage in Georgia and lack of control over sexual and abusive content has resulted in a boom of pornographic website building and its free viewing for years. From the just 20 Georgian leading porn websites the amount of individual hits/visits amounts to over 110,000 a day on average and those who visit spend 5-7 minutes watching porn, according to mytop.ge.
The majority of Georgian porn websites contain foreign (Russian dominant) highly pornographic/abusive movies whilst only 4-5 Georgian porn movies can be found on the net, most taken by amateur cameras. The average age of viewers is from 14-18 mostly, to 19 over.
Demand for Georgian pornography has surged to the level that the first Georgian Porn Studio was opened, on 25 September, 2010. The Studio is deemed to be recording high quality Georgian porn movies directed to be sold on the foreign market mainly.
The new website is announcing the opportunity to Georgian 18-35 year old men and 18-30 year old women to be paid 300-450 USD respectively for just 30 minutes of standard video track porn.
According to up.jeje.ge’s ratings porn sites in Georgia rank 12th place (by downloads of content) throughout the internet after gol.ge, jeje.ge and others which are mainly used for downloading movies, playing online games and other entertainment.
The leading website with amount of hits is the Palmebi website (made on 2009-09-14), which now counts 13,000 individual users per day with 14,873 registered (Georgian) users who regularly review the site. The site itself is viewed over 300,000 times a day. Among the registered users the ages range as follows: 13-15 year olds – (23.72%); 16-18 – (24.52%); 19 & above – (51.77%). The rest of the websites count 3,000-4,000 visitors daily.
As the site Palmebi’s admin says, most of the content is Russian and is free to view. Thus its major revenue comes from ad displays. And the site is viewed mainly by Georgians. Apparently Georgian content is not found on their site although there’s been huge demand from users.
All of the Georgian porn websites (the majority made by uCoz free web builder) are full of abusive content like: lesbians, teens, big tits, 1X1-group sex, incest, transsexual, anal, and so forth. Although they are foreign made (mainly Russia and the U.S.), each video counts at least 35,000-40,000 previews on Georgian sites.
19 year old Likuna was an example found by The FINANCIAL on one of the websites of a girl offering direct sale of herself, attracting customers through talk of her “excessive beauty” and giving contact info to agree on the price per hour of “service” as well as details about the meeting including group sex opportunities together with other female friends.
The internet pornography industry generates 12 billion USD in annual revenue just in the U.S. which is larger than the combined annual revenues of ABC, NBC, and CBS (Family Safe Media, January 10, 2006). Furthermore 56 billion USD of earnings are made by porn worldwide.
The United States adult film industry produces 4,000-11,000 films a year and earns an estimated 9-13 billion USD in gross revenues annually. An estimated 200 production companies employ 1,200-1,500 performers.
The average male porn actor in the U.S. gets 300 to 400 USD for a scene which is quite close to Georgian prices, although women are paid rather more, and depending on what type of performance they do a woman in the U.S. can make 100,000 USD to 250,000 USD at the end of the year.
According to comScore Media Metrix there are over 420 million pages of pornography and it is believed that the majority of these websites are owned by less than 50 companies.
The ICANN (Internet Committee for Assigned Names and Numbers) Board has already (in June 2010) approved the decision on .XXX top-level domain separate for adult-only content porn which will enter into force in early 2011. Thereafter common browsers and filters can easily pick that up with 100% efficiency so that parents can make sure that adult content will be filtered out for their kids.
According to the Pink Cross Foundation internet users spent an average of 14.6 minutes per day viewing adult content online. 70% of sexually transmitted infections in the porn industry occur in females and 75-90% of porn performers are prostituted women.
The Pink Cross Foundation was itself founded by Shelley Lubben, a former porn actress and prostitute in the ‘90s, who experienced major abuse in the porn industry and was later diagnosed with Bipolar disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Depressive Disorder, Impulse Control Disorder and substance abuse due to years of trauma from the sex industry. She was prescribed psychiatric counselling for many years.
Lubben began (from 2008) her mission to go back to the porn industry to reach out to porn stars and sex workers offering them solid help and hope. Lubben is also on a mission to smash the illusion of porn and help people overcome pornography addiction.
According to the Pink Cross Foundation Chatsworth, California produces 85% of the world’s adult content. All of the top female talent agencies are located in or near the local Chatsworth radius. Female performers are flown or fly to Chatsworth to work in the adult industry. All of the world’s top male talents live or travel to Chatsworth California for work. Almost every major and minor adult DVD company is in the local Chatsworth radius.
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