Nation Buys Porn With Stimulus Package

President Bush's economic stimulus package, which appears so far to have been ineffective in stroking the economy to life, is giving an unexpected raise to the porn industry.

From an Adult Internet Market Research Company press release:

An independent market-research firm, AIMRCo (Adult Internet Market Research Company), has discovered that many websites focused on adult or erotic material have experienced an upswing in sales in the recent weeks since checks have appeared in millions of Americans' mailboxes across the country.

According to Kirk Mishkin, Head Research Consultant for AIMRCo, "Many of the sites we surveyed have reported 20-30% growth in membership rates since mid-May when the checks were first sent out, and typically the summer is a slow period for this market."

[via Think Progress]

Comments

[MrStill]

Why would anybody still pay for porn when it's free all over the place?

[ladyv]

Iknowrite?

If the porn you want isn't available for free, it's probably because the porn you want isn't legal.

[JMD1]

because what -is- free is generally run of the mill, crass, lewd, vulgar pornography. there are collections of prints, books, videos and stills of beautifully crafted and artistically created erotica and the people who created it should rightfully be paid.

the junk is free, the good stuff isn't. like everything else.

[Scalawag]

I was going to ask the same thing.

[openhand]

Exxon, porn, it's all the same.

[thedirtman]

I never heard of porn killing any sea otters. Well, not yet anyhow?

[KevinMast]

Probably all those "Christians" were the ones who spent their checks on porn.

[DrDemon]

"Probably all those "Christians"..."

I bet many of them were the same one's that got their "boobies in a uproar" when the J.Jackson wardrobe malfunction malfunctioned!


HYPOCRITES!!!!!

[TomInJax]

That's one way to "grow" the economy.

[joebaggadonuts]

At least most of the participants in the sell side of the porn industry are progressives. Did you see that one coming George?

[Veri]

Birth rates go up the poorer the nation. What is it, things are so bad most Americans are even pessimistic about their sex life? What is this? A porn stimulus so you can stop thinking about how bad it really is? Little Johhny doesn't work so well and you need that plastic-wrapped porn-stimulus package to get your package working and get your mind off your economic woes?

I could just so roll with this one. But what would be the point? We know how bad it is. Now, instead of poor people turning to religion to offer them salvation that capitalism is unable to provide, people are turning to porn?

[DrDemon]

------- > STIMULATE with your STIMULUS!

[MarcInCA]

LMAO! Thanks for the laugh.

[thisoldbroad]

STILL LAUGHING!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!

[Kache]

Abolish Taxes - Nationalize Porn and Pot. Balance the budget by 2010.

[Veri]

The government would have a tough time taxing pot as anyone can grow it. One reason that pot is illegal. What? You thought the government made pot illegal because it was bad for you? Aspirin is bad for some people. And Vioxx? A small corporate genocide with no criminals indicted.

Though, if pot where legalized, people would then be busted for tax evasion. LOL. The prison population consisting of minor drug offenders would balloon!

[NoMercy]

Anyone can brew beer too.

[Fein]

Pot's ilegal to grow for the same reason Tobbacco is.

[MemphisBuffalo]

What better way to spend the Sorry I Screwed You check.

[Veri]

Well, the money for the stimulus package was borrowed from other countries. Some would say China. Is that porn stimulus package also made in China? Wow. Borrowing from China to pay China.

[DrDemon]

Why do we borrow from other countries, when we can just buy more ink, more paper and print?

[Weathermaker]

If we're getting screwed anyway, why not have some pleasure to go with it?

[NYC07]

Interestingly the spike came after the checks had reached the Vitter and Craig households.

[Veri]

Vitter in Craig would make for some great Porn. So would Foley.

Vitter in : "The Call Girls of The Republic", "The Congresspervert from U.N.C.L.E. Sam"

Craig: "Toe-tapping Toilet Sports", "Cops and Stalls, Nightstick in Hand"

Mark Foley in: "Paging all Page-Boys", "Barely 16: Page-Boy Edition"

[peenyweeny21]

And I thought I was the only one...laughed my ass off when I read this comment.

[leduck]

isn't that what happened in FSU after they collapsed?
the porn industry really took off in russia after that..., didn't it?



it never occured to me to spend the windfall that way
I really need to get my priorties straight

[Gary47]

Hooray for George! Idiot Extraordinaire!

[OtayPanky]

It's all about throbbing, unsublimated Eros.

It's what human beings do when they're not quite ready to just roll over and die.

Yes, it's the reptilian brain. But we have to start somewhere, don't we?

Let's not be prudes, prigs or pinheads about it.

And pass me that box of tissues.