Just an observation for what it's worth...

[softball]

Originally Posted by Hammer

I made lots of money with mainstream sites before I started building adult sites in '96 and I continue to do well with mainstream. At one point I had a very large and well known online shopping mall in the 90's that had more traffic and made more money than most of the adult sites on the Net today, so I don't think that mainstream needed to catch up to adult, it's always been there.

I think the technology and the marketing were in place, but customer trust had the shit kicked out of it by spammers, pop ups, cj's, phone re directs and any number of scams conceived and perpetrated by opportunists in the adult industry. It effected everyone else's profits for years. People became afraid of the internet. Only now is it finding its first solid steps. There is a long, long prosperous future for those who understand how it works.