More than 25 percent of all Internet users accessed an adult website in January 2010, and adult sites accounted for 6 percent of all U.S. Internet hits that month, according to a report this weekend on NPR's All Things Considered.
"Thank Sex for Making the Internet Hot" (audio clip below) is part of NPR's The Net @ 40 series, and this episode emphasizes the adult entertainment industry's role in building it into the word of high tech world of high definition streaming video, high quality free content, and pay-for-play business models we know and love today.
Here's Violet Blue (who you may remember as my 2009 Sexaminer Awards winner for Sex Writer of the Year), via NPR.org:
The Internet has been sexualized even before it was the Internet. Back in the days of bulletin board systems, some people would exchange what was known as "ASCII porn." This was essentially people using characters by hand on their keyboard to create what look like explicit images, and then send them to each other through bulletin board systems.
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