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The sex industry, comprised of stripping,
pornography, and prostitution, is a lucrative business. When it comes to the production of legal pornography alone, US
sales result in an estimated $12 billion
in annual revenue. There are over 3,500
strip clubs in the US raking in $3 billion a year. The recent emergence of an
adult webcam industry is also profitable,
netting $1 billion and growing. None of
these figures take into account worldwide sales or proceeds generated from
criminal syndicates involved in child
pornography, prostitution, or human
trafficking. As long as men are willing to
pay for sex, or for access to project sexual
fantasies on naked bodies, there will be