Lecture 14, started off discussing Jill Kelly.  Jill Kelly who is a famous porn actress, retired from doing movies in January of 2002 because she wanted to start her own production company.  Just like any business person you want to go where the real money is, and that is exactly what she did.  A very successful Jill Kelly Productions started up in 2004. 

I spoke in a previous blog about working the AVN show, here in Vegas.  I got to see and meet many people and one of those people was Jill Kelly.  Not only was my boyfriend just so excited to talk to her, I was pleasantly surprised to see that she was actually a very intelligent woman, who knows exactly what she’s doing and just how to make some serious money.  Professor speaks in lecture 14 of how hard it really is to get going in any type of business, but to make some serious cash in the “porn” business is not as easy as it looks. Using Jill Kelly as an example of success in this lecture got me googling her name and I found this website http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0446483/bio that explains her coming from nothing to big time.  Professor Halavais explained that she had some help, since being in the business she had many contacts within the industry and that no one has ever managed to have Jill Kelly’s level of success. 

In this day and age, making a profit is getting easier and easier.  You have the cell phones now, where you can download porn. This website: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-5622471.html talks about how profits are estimated to reach approx. 5 billion dollars by 2010.  The $$ is continuing to increase in this business.  The best part about being involved on the other side (the business end) is that there will always be a demand for porn.  Sex is sex, it dosn’t get old, it will always turn people on and people will always pay- and that is why this business is a good business in this day to get into.