(AgapePress) - The porn industry earns between ten and fourteen billion dollars a year in the United States -- and some of America’s blue-chip corporations are sharing in those enormous profits.

Corporate white collars are getting filthy rich -- from filth. That’s what a new report from Concerned Women for America reveals about many blue-chip American corporations which are involved in the pornography industry.

The company names are well known -- AT&T, MCI, Time-Warner, Comcast, Echostar, DirectTV, Hilton, Marriott, Sheraton, Raddison, VISA, Mastercard, and American Express. Those companies are raking in hundreds of millions of dollars each year from the porn industry -- and their shareholders do not know about it.

According to the CWA report, AT&T and MCI made one billion dollars last year from dial-a-porn calls. AT&T made over $300 million from its cable and satellite porn channels. Echostar and DirectTV made over $200 million each. And hotel corporations made over $200 million each from porn movie rentals.

CWA spokesperson Jan LaRue says it is a sad situation. "We spend hundreds of millions of dollars of federal tax money trying to convince the public of 'safe sex,' and yet we've got a $12 billion industry promoting unsafe sex," LaRue says. "It's a very serious issue -- it's public morality, but it's also public health and safety."

Jan LaRue says most corporate CEOs will not address the porn issue or the negative effects of porn on society.

"How strange it is that these mainstream corporations would market a product that they dare not show at their annual Christmas party or at their shareholders' convention," she says. "They cannot allow it on corporate premises or at corporate activities because they know they would risk losing millions of dollars to claimants for sexual harassment or hostile work environment claims -- and yet they're profiting from it by putting it out there in American homes and hotels."

Several concerned groups are writing the CEOs and asking them to stop dealing in porn.

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