After major hits to the financial and automotive industries, the adult entertainment industry appears to be the latest victim of the economic downturn. The recession has dealt serious blows to adult film and exotic dancing businesses nationwide. Rentals of porno videos, sales of skin magazines, attendances at strip clubs, and visits to XXX Internet sites have plunged more than 30% in the last three months. Even prostitution business has declined as customers have been staying home with their wives and girlfriends in order to save money.

Lobbyists representing these industries are expected to descend on Washington in hopes of leveraging some federal bailout money to help the cash-strapped businesses.

Ricky Pinder, owner and operator of SweatyMILFplumpers-dot-com, and chief lobbyist for the Internet Porno Marketing Association, is expected to meet with a Senate panel early next week to ask for up to $10 billion in financial assistance to his beleaguered industry.

“We’re just not seeing the click-throughs we used to on our sites,” lamented Pinder. “Used to be we could count on massive web traffic from users at work and schools. But with the bad economy, coupled with more corporate use policies and filtering software, our revenues are now a fraction of what they were this time last year. People are simply unplugging from their fantasies. We need help.”

But after Congress turned away the Big Three automakers last month, the chances of the pornography industry netting any bailout money are slim, despite the immense popularity of these businesses with many Washington power-brokers.

Still, representatives from the XXX industry will try their best at persuading a budget-conscious Congress.

“Much of our competition online is coming from low-paying porno sweatshops in Russia and southeast Asia,” said a spokeswoman who only identified herself as “Koko.” “We can’t compete with that. It’s a definite threat to American jobs. We have real people in our communities hurt by this situation: sons and daughters, friends, neighbors, wives and girlfriends. I hope that Congress realizes the impact this will have on our economy and on our people.”

Pinder and his fellow lobbyists will show a detailed PowerPoint presentation and video clips to the Senate panel, in hopes of directing their attention to his industry’s plight.

“We have lots of goodies to show them next week,” said a hopeful Pinder. “After we give them a taste of  what we do and what’s at stake, they’ll be whipping out their checkbooks!”