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Written by jay
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 01:02 |
Didn't your mother tell you not to believe everything you read on the internet? It seems that much of the non-fact-checking web, ourselves included, were hoodwinked last week about a certain "survey" done for a certain porn concern by an "independent internet market research company" that said that some 30% of new memberships were the result of people spending their economic stimulus checks. While it makes perfect sense that people might spend a portion of their newfound disposable income on porn, booze, hookers and the like, we are as guilty as the New York Post, Valleywag and others for not looking a little further into these claims. As suggested by AVN's Tom Johansmeyer, Adult Internet Market Research Company, or AIMRCo, turns out to likely be a fictional entity, founded only about a month ago, and probably by the owners of low-rent straight porn sites LSGModels.com and MoreyStudio.com to drive traffic to their sites.
As Johansmeyer smartly points out, there is very little disclosed about the methodology of the survey, and if AIMRCo really existed, why wouldn't they be known to AVN or to actual internet porn powerhouses like, say, AEBN or NakedSword?
Yes, well, we suppose the point is that someone should have done this survey, were it possible to do so with those ever secretive porn consumers. And isn't there often more truth in fiction, anyway?
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