We are coming into porn’s slow season, summer is historically the slowest 3 months in porn, I guess cuz people are spending time outside and all. Insiders tell me that many porn empires are crumbling as we speak. I hear of huge layoffs at one big porn company, I hear that there is a backlash against US Porn in Europe. There’s a glut of product on the market, most of it cheaply shot and sold for single digit profit margins. Rising talent costs and serious competition from the internet combined with a flattened consumer demand seems to point to a long overdue shakeout. Even the big boys are scratching their heads at the anti porn valley sentiment in the euro market. Funny thing is how can they not see that in countries where fisting and golden showers are commonplace a video with all condom scenes and no facials isn’t going to offer much competition. Europe doesn’t suffer the illusions of that mythical Holy Grail called the “couples market”. I don’t know what the answer is, but I know what it isn’t. It isn’t continuing to flood the market with cheap product, trying to make it up in numbers. If the industry wants to make money it had best get a hold on production and concentrate on selling more pieces of quality product than on releasing titles from anyone capable of pointing a camera at a naked girl. But it’s a lot like herding cats. Expect changes in porn, it’s been a long time coming but a new guard is positioned to rise up and assume power. The times they are a changin.
Are porners fiddling while the city burns?
We are coming into porn’s slow season, summer is historically the slowest 3 months in porn, I guess cuz people are spending time outside and all. Insiders tell me that many porn empires are crumbling as we speak. I hear of huge layoffs at one big porn company, I hear that there is a backlash against US Porn in Europe. There’s a glut of product on the market, most of it cheaply shot and sold for single digit profit margins. Rising talent costs and serious competition from the internet combined with a flattened consumer demand seems to point to a long overdue shakeout. Even the big boys are scratching their heads at the anti porn valley sentiment in the euro market. Funny thing is how can they not see that in countries where fisting and golden showers are commonplace a video with all condom scenes and no facials isn’t going to offer much competition. Europe doesn’t suffer the illusions of that mythical Holy Grail called the “couples market”. I don’t know what the answer is, but I know what it isn’t. It isn’t continuing to flood the market with cheap product, trying to make it up in numbers. If the industry wants to make money it had best get a hold on production and concentrate on selling more pieces of quality product than on releasing titles from anyone capable of pointing a camera at a naked girl. But it’s a lot like herding cats. Expect changes in porn, it’s been a long time coming but a new guard is positioned to rise up and assume power. The times they are a changin.
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Are porners fiddling while the city burns?
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