Pornography has always been a high profit industry. In the early 1970s in the United States, the pornography industry generated revenues of approximately US$8-10 million per year. The combination of high profit and low enforcement of obscenity laws made this a logical place for organized crime activity. By 1977, the distribution of pornography in the United States was almost entirely controlled by organized crime. In the late 1970s the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that just a few individuals with direct ties to organized crime controlled almost all of the multi-million dollar pornography industry in the United States and its international distribution [41]. By the late nineties the U.S. sex industry was generating US$9 billion per year-a 100 000 percent increase over a twenty-five year period [36].