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adult brands which, if anything, are competitors I don’t know about you, but I’m excited to
– albeit ones with very different business see what we learn next about the adult industry
models and approaches to the market. from mainstream media outlets in the weeks
and months ahead.
In an article about Pornhub’s announcement
the site is now accepting the Verge
cryptocurrency, Techcrunch casually tosses Will the FSC lift its “indefinite” production
out a “fact” which, unless I’ve missed a rather hold in time to declare the next one? Will it
big announcement, is out of step with reality. be revealed that, 12 years after Top Ten Filter
Reviews first declared porn to be a “$97 billion
“You can also pay for a number of services a year industry” the industry’s aggregate
with crypto,” John Biggs reports (in the half revenue has finally increased or decreased
of the sentence which is accurate), “including
Flirt4Free, a cam girl site associated with enough to warrant a different number being
LiveJasmin.” circulated?

Only time will tell, I suppose. Until time
reveals the answers to the questions above,
The more I I’m going to busy myself with perusing the
most reputable mainstream publication I know
think about of: The Weekly World News. Hey, don’t laugh;
it, the more I rumor has it they’re associated with the New

like this way of York Times….
constructing
Ben Suroeste has been a fly on the adult
associations... industry wall for close to 20 years -- which,

if you think about it, probably makes him the
oldest fly since Jeff Goldblum. Over the years,
Ben has absorbed a lot of information about the
Come again? Flirt4Free is “associated with” porn industry. Of course, over those same years,
LiveJasmin?
he’s also absorbed a lot of hihgly questionable
Granted, without knowing what Biggs chemicals, so his recollection might be a little
means by “associated with” I suppose this fuzzy at times. He does remember (FOR SURE)
could be construed as an accurate statement. all the horrible, slanderous things you said about
For instance, if I’m associated with award- your boss while standing in line for that one
winning journalist Steve Coll by virtue of the stupid boat party in Hollywood, Florida 11 years
fact we both write words, I suppose I can
see how Flirt4Free is also associated with ago, though..... So don’t mess with him or he’s
LiveJasmin. liable to bust you good, and that would mean no
more free drinks or trade show schwag for you,
The more I think about it, the more I like now wouldn’t it?
this way of constructing associations, in part
because it means I’m a much more worldly,
accomplished and well-connected person than Reprinted courtesy of YNot
I had previously realized.

For example, I ran track back in high school,
only about 10 years before Michael Johnson
won a bunch of gold medals in the Olympics,
which means – ipso factoid – I’m associated
with one of the most successful American
athletes in history!

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