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The sex industry is the term given to the industry commercial enterprises which employ sex workers in various capacities, generally relating to what is described as adult entertainment which includes erotica, as it comprises a number of forms of entertainment not considered suitable for children. The sex industry represents a significant portion of the world's economy and has been credited with driving technological advances in popular media, such as home video and DVD, pay-per-view, live streaming video and video on demand. Examples of the types of modern business operating in the sex industry include Hustler (a monthly men's magazine); SexTV: The Channel (a digital cable television channel); SuicideGirls.com (a popular website); Artemis (a mega-brothel in Germany); and Ann Summers (a successful chain of British sex shops).
Types of businessesAdult filmsThe explosive popularity of the videocassette recorder in the 1970s and 1980s led to unprecedented growth for the adult film business. The portability of the technology vaulted the availability of so-called "dirty movies" beyond the realm of the simple loops and movie projectors of an earlier era to bigger profits and higher-quality production values. Today, the stars of adult movies regularly appear in mainstream media, produce their own websites and maintain large fan followings. Every year, AVN Awards are presented to the best of the best?including categories such as Best High-Definition Production and Best New Starlet. InternetThe first home-PCs capable of network communication prompted the arrival of online services for adults in the late 80s and early 1990s. The wide-open early days of the World Wide Web quickly snowballed into the dot-com boom, in-part fueled by an incredible global increase in the demand for and consumption of porn and erotica. Adult Service ProviderAn Adult Service Provider (ASP), or Adult Sex Provider, provides sexual services for adults. This can include escorts, call girls, prostitutes, adult webmasters, erotic dancers, the independent contractors sometimes associated with brothels, and others who are generally referred to under the umbrella term sex worker. These providers have been known to offer pastoral care and training at levels typically associated with blue chip companies to their staff. Sex tourism
A sex worker in Germany MilitarySex industries tend to thrive around military bases. The British naval port of Portsmouth had a flourishing local sex industry in the 19th century, and until the early 1990s there were large red light districts near American military bases in the Philippines. The Monto red-light district of Dublin, one of the largest in Europe, gained most of its custom from the British soldiers stationed in the city; indeed it collapsed after Irish independence was achieved and the soldiers left. The notorious Patpong entertainment district in Bangkok, Thailand, started as an R&R location for US troops serving in the Vietnam War in the early 1970s. See also
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