Interesting article yesterday on the complicated business dealings of we entrepreneur Richard J. Gordon, who with his company DTI has "yoked together disparate endeavors that support pornography, the Bible, and prevention of animal abuse — all by marrying the universal purchasing power of credit cards to the respectability conveyed by slick Web sites."
There are no official numbers on the pornography industry. But those who have studied its operations view DTI as a pivotal player in the world of pornography. “DTI appears to rank in the top 1 percent of adult entertainment companies in the world,” said M. J. McMahon, publisher of AVN Online, an Internet news site covering the industry.
The gist of the article seems to be that Gordon's non-smut customers may not have been aware of his involvement in companies like ClubLove, who gained prominence when they sold the Pam Anderson / Tommy Lee sextape back in the golden olden days of the web. Which, you know, OK. They don't wanna associate with that, we don't guess they have to. Still, it does seem like kind of a joke to us every time someone does business with a successful-yet-slightly-shady internet company and then they're like "Wha? Boobies?" (You guys know we get paid by the Sicilian Mafia here at Hooksexup, right?)
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