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by: Sam Santino
Sex sells, especially to web surfers;
Internet porn a booming, billion-dollar industry
Source: cnn.com
Gone are the furtive visits to seedy theaters and the fear of being outed as some perverted purchaser of porn. Now, all you need to indulge anonymously in the "XXX" world is your trusty personal computer and a good connection to the Internet.
It's difficult to derive reliable figures from an industry that, despite flirtations with the mainstream, is made up of many small shops that prefer to keep a low profile. But the figures that exist paint a picture of a booming online field, fueled by the relatively low costs of setting up shop, fickle consumers in constant search of new thrills and the promise of quick profits.
"It's an enormous business ... There's a lot of money to be made," said Sean Kaldor, an analyst with Nielsen/NetRatings, which estimated that 34 million visited porn sites in August -- about one in four Internet users in the United States.
The average user is "looking at 121 pages, going back six times and spending an hour and seven minutes every month looking at adult-related material," Kaldor said.
All that browsing has caused the number of pornography Web pages to soar during the past six years, with over 1.3 million sites serving up about 260 million pages of erotic content, according to a study released in September by the Seattle, Washington-based Web-filtering company N2H2.
The National Council, which advises Congress on technology, issued a report in 2002 that predicts the online porn industry will grow to a $5-$7 billion business within five years.
Experts say the industry has been on the forefront of many innovations that have been adopted by mainstream sites, such as new payment systems, ad revenue models, chat and broadband.
"One of the most interesting things is to watch how these sites pioneer new technologies," said Kaldor, the Nielsen/NetRatings analyst.
Scarlett Johansson gets scandalous waxings
Source: thesuperficial.com
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Page Six reports that sources from DaTommaso restaurant say Scarlett Johansson was a nervous wreck before getting her first Brazilian waxing at the Oasis Day Spa and that the waxing crew "couldn't stop admiring her body."
Hopefully this'll save you the trouble of ever running up to Scarlett Johansson and asking her what the situation with her pubic hair is. Because trust me, pretending it's for a school project doesn't work at all. And you wouldn't think a 5'4" girl would be capable of uppercutting a full grown adult through a store window in slow motion as onlookers gasp but you'd be wrong. Because she totally killed my friend Larry that way. Murderer!
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Aaron Carter chickens out of marriage
Source: thesuperficial.com
In the surprise of the century, 18-year-old Aaron Carter has called off his engagement to his older brother's ex, 22-year-old Playboy model Kari Ann Peniche, just a week after proposing to her in Las Vegas. Aaron says:
"I got caught up in the moment and proposed. I then realized it was a hasty thing to do and I am not ready for marriage quite yet."
Not ready for marriage? I'm not even sure if he's ready for big boy underwear. I saw him at McDonalds the other day and I'm pretty sure he ordered a Happy Meal with - and I believe these were his exact words - "extra happy."
Kendra Wilkinson is almost as smart as your dog
Source: thesuperficial.com
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If you've ever seen The Girls Next Door you know Kendra Wilkinson might be legally retarded. But just in case you had your doubts, she posted an unintelligible rant on her website saying:
"I want you guys to know that I know that this fantasy land I live now doesn't last forever and I now that and thats why i go to school. This can all go away in the blink of an eye so I am also using this situation to save money for my future. Oh yeah and what you see on tv is not always the truth by the way even if its a reallity show."
If you sped through that your brain might have filled in all the mistakes with words that make sense and are spelled right. If you went through it slowly you most likely never made it out the end. I'd send a rescue team to get you, but we've lost enough men as it is.
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