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History Of Porn
1st century BC - Ovid's authors The Art of Love
1st century BC - Kama Sutra was created
2-3 century BC - Sodom and Gomorrah the cities of sin are reportedly destroyed
1387 - Geoffrey Chaucer authors The Canterbury Tales
1440 - Gutenberg Press Invented
1675 - Earliest example of written pornography in the English language,John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester's Sodom
1840 - Burlesque shows came into existance
1850 - Can-Can dance first performed
1877 - Thomas Edison invented the phonograph
1884 - Eadweard Muybridge motion studies featuring naked men and women
1889 - Moulin Rouge opened its doors
1891 - Thomas Edison invented the motion picture camera
1896 - The May Irwin Kiss (Edison kinetoscope) - First kiss on film denounced as shocking and pornographic.
1896 - Louise Willy strips in the French film LeBain
1908 - First known porn movie - A L'Ecu d'Or ou la bonne auberge - made in France
1910 - Another very early porn movie - Am Abend - made in Germany
1914 - Hypocrites featured full female nudity
1915 - A Free Ride, earliest known American stag film with explicit sex scenes
1925 - Josephine Baker becomes a hit in Paris
1928 - Dr. Ruth was born
1930 - Hollywood established the Hays Code to set moral standards on mainstream films
1932 - Strip clubs evolve out of Burlesque shows
1934 - Strict enforcement of the Hays code began
1951 - Smart Alec a stag film becomes an underground hit
1953 - Hugh Hefner starts Playboy
1960 - The first Playboy Club opens in Chicago
1964 - Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart says he can't define hardcore porn - "I know it when I see it."
1965 - Bob Guccione starts Penthouse
1968 - Al Goldstein starts Screw Magazine
1969 - First mainstream movie to represent the swinger lifestyle - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Directed by Paul Mazursky
1970 - Phil Harvey starts Adam & Eve
1970 - Sylvester Stallone stars in a porn film The Party at Kitty and Stud's
1970 - Notable Porn Movies - Cycle Studs - Le Salon (Gay)
1970 - Penthouse shows pubic hair for the first time.
1971 - First condom to appear in a movie - Carnal Knowledge, Directed by Mike Nichols
1971 - Notable Porn Movies - The Boys in the Sand - Wakefield Poole (Gay)
1972 - Notable Porn Movies - Fritz the Cat - Ralph Bakshi (Anime)
1972 - Adult theaters become a common site in urban America
1972 - Woody Allen releases the movie Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask
1972 - Notable Porn Movies - Deep Throat - Gerard Damiano (Straight)
1972 - Notable Porn Movies - Behind the Green Door - The Mitchell Brothers (Straight)
1974 - Larry Flynt starts Hustler.
1975 - Betamax introduced
1975 - First condom commercial air on television
1976 - VHS introduced
1977 - Deep Throat is released on home video
1978 - Larry Flynt is shot in an assassination attempt that left him paralyzed from the waist down.
1978 - Ron Jeremy starts his career by appearing in Playgirl
1978 - Ward Christensen created the CBBS Bulletin Board System along with the Xmodem protocol
1978 - Ascii art porn started being traded on BBS sites
1981 - HIV/AIDS become a hot topic
1981 - Audiotext industry gets popular and phone sex is the biggest seller
1982 - Playboy TV is launched
1983 - Tom Jennings created the Fidonet BBS system
1983 - Name server developed at University of Wisconsin
1984 - Penthouse publishes pictures of Vanessa Williams naked. She resigns her Miss America crown.
1984 - Domain Name Systems (DNS) introduced
1985 - Symbolics.com is the first registered domain in history
1985 - Earliest domains to be registered - cmu.edu, purdue.edu, rice.edu, berkeley.edu, ucla.edu, rutgers.edu, bbn.com, mit.edu,
think.com, css.gov, mitre.org
1986 - US Attorney General Edwin Meese published 1,960 page report investigating porn at the order of President Ronald Reagan.
1986 - Traci Lords is discovered to be underage
1987 - Pornstar Cicciolina elected to the Italian parliament
1987 - Spice TV is launched by Spice Entertainment
1988 - Title 18 United States Code Section 2257 was enacted
1990 - First commercial provider of Internet dial-up access -world.std.com
1991 - The last Playboy Club closed in Manila
1991 - Pixis Interactive creates first virtual interactive porn game called Virtual Vixens.
1992 - Term "Surfing the Internet" is first heard
1993 - GonZo.com is registered.
1993 - John Bobbit's wife Lorena cuts his penis off. He later stars in porn video.
1993 - World Wide Web goes live.
1993 - Don't Ask Don't Tell introduced by President Bill Clinton.
1994 - SexToyFun.Com an early sex toy store was opened
1994 - Bianca.com opens
1994 - Sex.com was registered by Gary Kremen
1994 - Jenna Jameson does her first adult film.
1995 - Ricks Cabaret begins trading on Nasdaq: RICK
1995 - Gamelink.com opens
1995 - First confirmed blowjob in the White House.
1995 - PersianKitty.com opens
1995 - DMR started processing
1995 - Stockroom.com opens
1995 - Gamelink.com opens
1995 - Ricks Cabaret begins trading on Nasdaq: RICK
1995 - Sex.com was stolen by Stephen Cohen
1995 - Internet goldrush begins
1996 - XXXcounter was launched by Cybererotica
1996 - iGallery.com opens
1996 - iBill started processing
1996 - Cotac.com opens
1996 - Hitbox counter was launched by WebSideStory
1996 - AdultCheck.com opens
1996 - Pythonvideo.com opens
1996 - Paycom started processing
1996 - YnotNetwork.com opens
1996 - Naughty.com opens
1996 - Cybererotica.com opens
1996 - CarolCox.com opens
1996 - MaxCash.com opens
1996 - Domain name tv.com sold for $15,000
1996 - Hitbox counter was launched by WebSideStory
1996 - Epoch started processing
1996 - xPics.com opens
1997 - Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape comes out
1997 - Sexplosion.com opens
1997 - ABC-web/Robin Nixon opens, launches first pop-up consoles
1997 - Andy Dunn's Sex Swap tips and trix published as online publication
1997 - DVD introduced
1997 - Domain name business.com sold for $150,000
1997 - xPics.com opens
1997 - Boogie Nights directed by Paul Thomas Anderson is nominated for three Academy Awards
1997 - CWIE/CCBill started processing
1997 - Starnet/Sex Inc started broadcasting live cams from Orange No 5 in Vancouver.
1997 - Jennicam.org opens
1997 - Whitehouse.com owned by Dan Parisi becomes a porn site
1997 - Timon creates Exit Consoles
1997 - Porncity.net opens
1998 - iFriends.com opens
1998 - Condom Chronicles introduced as an early industry online publication
1998 - FTC targets xPics for defrauding customers.
1998 - Sextracker.com counter launched
1998 - Wasteland.com opens
1998 - Tommys-bookmarks.com opens
1998 - CondomProject.com, later to become Netpond.com opens
1998 - AdultFriendFinder.com opens
1998 - Python/Apollo started broadcasting live cam shows
1998 - 69Spot.com, later to become xBiz.com opens
1998 - TheHun.net opens
1998 - Link-O-Rama.com opens
1998 - VoyeurDorm.com opens
1998 - Circle Jerk sites become popular
1998 - Al Goldstein installs Fuck You Finger in his backyard in Florida.
1998 - Literotica.com opens
1998 - ABC-web/Robin Nixon launches Eureka, first daily adult newsletter
1998 - Viagra introduced
1998 - PornNo.com opens
1998 - Porntrack.com counter launched
1998 - Playboy purchased Spice for $127 million
1999 - TopBucks.com opens
1999 - Hitbox counter stops doing business with adult sites
1999 - Domain name business.com sold for $7,500,000
1999 - SicCash.com opens
1999 - Playboy sells Hot Network to Vivid Video for $10.5 million
1999 - Hitbox counter stops doing business with adult sites
1999 - PlatinumBucks.com opens
1999 - AdultRevenueService.com opens
1999 - Dragon King created the first TGP2 site
1999 - CashCount.com a paying counter by Cybererotica was introduced
1999 - Napster was created by Shawn Fanning
2000 - AOL goes after CEN for sending bulk mail
2000 - AEBN launched first VOD site
2000 - Al Gore claims to have invented the internet
2000 - Visa and Mastercard introduce tougher regulations and larger fines for chargebacks
2000 - DMR/Web800 dies
2000 - Jettis started processing
2000 - Sex.com was given back to Gary Kremen after a legal fight.
2000 - WEG offers free signup program
2000 - American Express stops accepting porn transactions
2000 - FreeSiteNetwork.com opens
2000 - FTC targets MaxCash/RJB Telcom over billing practices
2000 - FTC targets Cresent Publishing for defrauding customers
2001 - Oprano.com is born
2001 - Yahoo removes porn banners from search engine
2001 - Playboy buys Hot Network back along with two other channels, HotZone, and Vivid for $70 million.
2001 - BitTorrent was created by Bram Cohen
2003 - Paypal stops processing adult transactions
2003 - Globill stops processing
2003 - CashCount.com program closed by Cybererotica
2003 - Penthouse files bankruptcy
2004 - Adult film industry temporarily ceased production due to HIV
2004 - Paris Hilton sex tape comes out
2005 - Video iPod introduced
2005 - Sex.com theif Stephen Cohen arrested
2005 - Myspace.com sells for $580 million
2005 - The Digital Playground film Pirates had a budget that topped $1 million
2006 - Google resist court order for porn search results
2006 - Bishop starts THIS timeline on an adult industry forum
2006 - Bishop removes THIS timeline from an adult industry forum and approves it's posting on BusinessOfPorn.com.
2006 - KSEXradio.com is sold to Ultimate Entertainment Group & Re-Launched
2006 - Sex.com sold for a reported $12,000,000
2006 - xPeeps was launched by AEBN
2006 - PornoTube.com was launched by AEBN
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