"Pleasure: Business Of Porn": CNBC's Penetrating Investigation Into The Porn Industry (VIDEO)

Via Gawker comes this penetrating CNBC investigation into the danger looming over one of the nation's most cherished and important industries: pornography. CNBC helpfully explains that "pornography has been around since the time of the caveman" and that "it's a $13 billion industry where the bottom line has always been sex sells."

Intrepid reporter Melissa Lee interviewed beloved adult-film star Jess Jane to get some inside information on the inustry. A sample question from Lee: How do you differentiate yourself from all the other blond, busty porn stars? Jane's answer: 'I'm more personable.'

In case you were on the fence about watching the clip below, CNBC offers this priceless teaser line: "But is the very same technology that brought it riches bringing the business of skin to it's knees? Melissa Lee reports." Nice.

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Comments

[CheshireCat2]

What a complete waste.

[Manthan Bhatt]

cnbc is awful now.

david faber is the only non -sellout, god i hate every anchor on CNBC!

[dadohead]

This would have been a lot more interesting if a sweaty Jim Cramer had been the reporter.

[yellowdoggie]

I was just thinking the same thing. I was hoping that he might be an undercover reporter and maybe catch a disease.

[derekc06]

penetrating

[POLINUT]

Ratings or Professionalism...hmmmm...RATINGS WINS AGAIN!

[chi01]

masturbation is good, this reporting is not

[thebirdstheword]

huh, huh, you said penetrating...

[a3w]

Twice.

[rivahcat]

Aw man, ya beat me to the Beavis/Butthead comment! :-(

[northstar11]

ratings a little low over there at cnbc.????? maybe just a little too much corporatism ??

[RobinSeattle]

Is it sweeps week or something?

[jalowe1957]

People watch porn because they feel so inadequate and insecure about themselves to where they have to watch it just so they could feel better about themselves? As a consequences, relationships suffer and the cycle worsens.

I've seen how porn has proved destructive to one of my friends. He was once taken to the emergency room after taking in bad speed while watching and wacking off to porn.

It's hazardous to one's psychological and emotional health. It is a fact I've bore witness to firsthand.

[Horatio]

You're a hazard to one's psychological and emotional health. Porn can be, like most anything, abused. But for millions, it's a pleasurable, innocuous experience.

[Workineh Abraham]

You are so right, I've heard similar stories.

[kasule]

you know, after fighting this thing, i know exactly how destructive it can be, u never feel satisfied with it, and the more u watch, the more u crave:(.... sad thing is, when u've come off, all u can think about,is how awful u are, and don't even want to look at the pictures again, porn is a big destruction, there's nothing like abusing porn!!!!

[a3w]

Everything about your post bespeaks a person who is uncomfortable with their own sexuality.

[DocMo76]

You can say the same in over eating.

[a3w]

Easy now... Your repression is showing.

The only thing your post proved is that speed can be dangerous, not porn.

[seachild]

sounds like your friend has a DRUG problem...not porn!

[Liberal2]

Heh...Anyone wondering why CNBC isn't doing a investigation of, oh...say..., the American banking system??? Moody's??? Goldman Sachs??? Porn is *SUCH* an important element of the US economy, isn't it?

[Babele]

I was wondering the same thing...I guess it is because porn is our most "cherished" industry?!?

[a3w]

A $1 billion industry is actually pretty important to our economy...

Not to mention the fact that the porn industry has been a major driving force in the development of the internet and new media.

[RightWingMarine]

we'll call anything news these days.

[BOM2007]

Until the two girls started speaking, I wasn't sure which one was the porn star.

[dnddays]

word.

[bbriani3842]

Why are they saying it's going to fail? They don't want AIG to have any competition?

[Sally Williams 1]

"Penetrating Investigation Into The Porn Industry" ? Really? Sounds a bit like a Jr High newspaper double entendre

[NotYouAgain]

They're up against stiff competition these days. Sorry.

[therblig]

hey, it's a hard news story that a newspaper would give many inches. oh my, is it warm in here?

[a3w]

Why do you guys have to be so anal about this stuff?

(Sorry, won't happen again.)

[KYlawyer]

Oh now I thought that was a great come on. About time someone got deep into the long and short of this. But I thought the interviewer was stroking her a little much.

[ICanHasDemocracy]

CNBC: FAIL.

[Blufftonian]

No kidding. How pitiful.

[christophe971]

More WIN for me.

[christophe971]

"More *like* WIN" I meant.

[BigShotBob]

I'll second that: EPIC FAIL.