Come on now. Porn is not that bad. Even today. I started in the adult industry in 2011, so admittedly I do not have much to compare to, but I think you can make it anywhere really.
Let's just put it this way. Gone are the days of everyone signing up for Bangbros and Reality Kings because they did not have access to the videos online for free via torrents and tubes, but now we are in the webcam era and let me tell you something... that's a HUGE business.
I'm sure a lot of you know someone that has spent hundreds, maybe thousands, in pay-per-minute chat rooms. Can you imagine if you sign that guy up? And make 30% of everything he spends? Now combine that with the fact signup ratios at cam sites are better than other XXX sites, and you can start to see the potential here. Alternatively, you can opt to collect $40 per signup. If you do this, you will earn $40 for every signup whether that person never pays for a private chat or whether that person spends each night in private chat. So it's PPS or revshare, and I still haven't figured out which one I like more (probably revshare tho).
One thing I love about the adult industry too... you can sign someone up, and have a bad month, but as long as that person keeps their account active (and in my experience I have earned $ on rebills about 50% of the time a signup goes for at least 2 months) , you will collect from their signup each month.
But yeah, nevermind the signups, WEBCAMS is where the money is in adult today. I'm going to place my affiliate link
HERE and if you are interested in promoting webcams,
it would be nice if you sign up through my link, but... either way... my point is that it might not be 1995 anymore, but the game always changes, and if you stay with the times, you can get a piece of the pie too. In 2013, I think the money in adult is with webcams.