He trained and worked as a nurse, but, understanding the financial possibilities of the Internet, he set up an adult pornography website which provided a comfortable income.

Google has also found themselves on the opposite side of a lawsuit after the pornography website Perfect 10 sued the search king for copyright infringement.

The rise of pornography websites offering photos, video clips and streaming media including live webcam access allowed greater access to pornography.

Women comprise about one quarter to one third of visitors to popular pornography websites, but are only 2% of subscribers to pay sites.

A comparative study was made in 2002, to study how the blocking of pornography websites affected the search of legitimate health-related information.

Video hosting service "tube" websites feature free user-uploaded amateur pornography, and have become the most visited pornography websites on the internet.

It also operates the websites NaughtyBids.com, an auction site; CouplesTouch.com, a dating site for swingers; and pornography website xxxpassword.com.

Cox and her husband, Danny McAlear, started their website in 1994, which is the oldest running amateur pornography website on the Internet.