There is no doubt that sex sells. In advertising, for example, companies have taken to featuring bikini-clad women or shirtless guys with six-pack abs for products that don’t really call for such imagery such as ice cream and cell phones. Stupid movies could become hits if it has a beautiful foreign exchange high school student stripping inside a classmate’s room while the whole town ogles her through a webcam. If even a hint of sex in just about anything could help rake in the cash, imagine what the payday would be when the business is all about sex itself.

Whether we admit it or not, the business of sex is a lucrative one. Just take a look at these 10 adult businesses that rake in cash and you just might want a crack at any of these yourself to get your hands on some.

1. Porn

Now a multi-billion dollar industry that made porn stars such as Jenna Jameson and Tera Patrick multi-millionaires. Enough said.

2. Strip Clubs

Though strip club owners don’t really earn as much as producers of porn do, it’s still good business, as a typical strip club in a small city have revenues of $1-2 million a year. You can just imagine the income an individual strip club in a city like, say, Las Vegas, generates in a year.

3. Escort Services

Escort services charge by the hour, and the usual arrangement is a 50-50 split between the agency and the escort. So if an escort charges $1000 an hour for four hours on the job, that would mean $2000 each for both parties. Of course, an escort agency doesn’t just have one escort on its roster, does it? Multiply that figure by the number of escorts on the job and you’ve got the money rolling in.

4. Phone Sex and Adult Chat Lines

If a phone sex company has just 1000 calls per day averaging 12 minutes each at $1.99 per minute, that would be $23,880.00 per day! That means there are 200 hours of conversation happening per day, and that would require 25 operators working an 8-hour shift each day. If operators are paid $25.00 per hour for those 200 hours, that would mean shelling out only $5,000 dollars a day for labor. Minus $3,880 per day for all types of other expenses, the company is still left with a net profit of $15,000 per day. If $450,000 a month or more than $5 million a year isn’t your idea of mega cash, then we don’t know what is.

5. Adult Site Web Design and Developers

On average, adult web designers and developers charge clients $2000 for each website package. With thousands of online entrepreneurs looking to jump on the profitable Internet porn bandwagon every single day, adult web designers and developers are assured really good business for years to come.

6. Sex Toys

The sex toy industry, much like the porn industry in general, has been experiencing non-stop growth in the last few years. In 2006 alone, the American sex toy industry had revenues of $1.5 billion. And with the Internet providing more opportunities to reach a wider market, the sex toy industry could only get bigger.

7. Adult hotels/motels

Your typical adult hotel/motel charges anywhere from $30 to $200 for just a few hours, depending on the quality of the place. Multiply that by the number of rooms that motel has and the astronomical number of people who want to their thing in private and away from their homes, and you’ve got a really good business going on here.

8. Web Cam Site Operator

Many web cam site operators make $100-500 a day. Imagine what it would be like if you have a company with, say, 50 web cam site operators under your wing. That’s raking in cash, if anything.

9. Adult content providers

Adult content providers are some of the most important components of the billion-dollar Internet porn industry. Without them, Internet porn wouldn’t exist in the first place, and no one would be earning millions upon millions today.

10. Foreign Marriage Agency

Running a foreign marriage agency or mail-order bride or dating sites is one of the most lucrative businesses in the Internet today. There’s one Dallas-based agency that reportedly charges its customers $10,000 each so they could meet five women in their roster. Pretty profitable indeed.

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