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There's always been some portion of the US capitalists that finds sex and violence and all that stuff tacky if not outright immoral. It's just that a lot of those people died and lost money to the people willing to sell it. However tech companies seeking to enter foreign markets might find themselves facing those kinds of people again. Saudis or whoever else may not want to do business if even a siloed portion of it dabbles in "immoral" content. These days you can't really say no because the market returns on the sex sells crowd isn't what it used to be, declining profits and all that. Expansion into new markets is vital, if not more important than continuing to appease domestic markets.

People like to say that media has to be clean in order to be widely accepted, but I don't think that's quite it. It's not appealing to broad US markets that's the problem. It's that the broadest US markets are spent. There is little blood to be squeezed from that stone. Now it's specific domestic markets (whales, b2b) and broad foreign markets. India is the third largest consumer market in the world and growing. If making porn is banned in India, and the US market is saturated in porn, then investing in a porn LLM is probably not a good idea for future growth.