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pay-site

Subscription website hosting adult content directly for paying subscribers — the historical pre-tube-era and pre-creator-platform-era model that still operates alongside the newer rails. Studio-owned pay-sites carry the studio's back-catalog and most-current releases; the model has consolidated substantially since the tube-site emergence but remains a meaningful revenue layer for established studios.

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Adult industry trade press: AVN, XBIZ, and the trade-press ecosystem 1983-2026 — How AVN, XBIZ, and the broader adult-industry trade press built the institutional memory the field now depends on — and why the question of who counts as serious industry journalism in 2026 looks different from the question that produced AVN in 1983.
The post-2020 payment-processor reordering of adult media — How a sequence of Mastercard, Visa, and platform-policy decisions in 2020–2021 restructured the compliance, distribution, and labour landscape of the legitimate adult industry — and what the new equilibrium looks like five years later.

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