The World’s Biggest Industries – Red Lights: The Sex Industry
Often considered one of the oldest trades on earth, the sex industry is to this day one of the largest and most profitable in the world. Another industry that treads the line between legal and illegal in places, the sex industry brings in billions of dollars across the globe on legal prostitution, pornography, and other related trades alone.
If the numbers were to be combined with the more illegal aspects of the trade, it would easily push the total profits annually over one trillion dollars.