CNN correspondent Tom Foreman on “Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees” told viewers that mobile porn on devices such as the Video iPod and Sony PSP is so popular that the number of downloads is nearly equivalent to mainstream videos.
“Since the Video iPod was unveiled in October, Apple says 12 million regular videos have been downloaded on their website,” Foreman reported. “But, in the same period, this skin site, called SuicideGirls, says it saw 10 million downloads. About one a second.”
CNN traveled to the MAC (Mobile Adult Content) Congress in Miami to listen to numerous telecom executives and a plethora of mobile adult figures. One of the interviewees was AEBN’s Harvey Kaplan, who characterized the addiction of wireless adult as “flesh-colored crack.”
“It’s a device where people can download their content, feel safe and secure that no one else is going to gain access to it,” said Kaplan, who noted that for the first time ever, consumers aren’t being embarrassed by walking into adult video stores, renting movies in hotels or even having porn stored on their home computers.
Ron Jeremy also weighed in on mobile adult, saying, “It’s within you and your little [device], you know. It’s kind of like a marriage made in heaven.”
“The market has gotten 10 times bigger, and it’s attracting a much different group,” Jeremy said. “Now we have a lot of college kids and young couples that you would not see going to an adult theater.”
Already, forecasters see a bright future with mobile adult. Juniper Research says global sales of those services are seen tripling between 2004 and 2009 to $2.1 billion.
“This trend is undeniably real,” Foreman said. “It is unsettlingly rapid. And it's unstoppable.”