Comments on: The Industry Is In Distress

By: PornNewzNate

PornNewzNate — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:00:39 +0000

When referencing Bang Bros, it’s key that you mention that they also own fling.com (an AdultFriendFinder competitor).

They plaster fling.com ads all over all the tube/torrent/rapidshare forums as well.

Also, they are part of the same corporation as Reality Kings.

By: jimmyd

jimmyd — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:48:10 +0000

“The industry is moving more and more towards the old school features and glamorous girls.”

Ya mean we’re seeing a return to competing on a (semi) creative level rather than simply a popularity contest? Instead of making the same product (gonzo and all-sex) that everyone else is making–over and over and over with little to distinguish it from its competition–we’re seeing a return to (appropriate amounts of) story-telling, production value, and porn stars who look like porn stars? Sounds great. That should mean 80% of directors, production companies, and talent have no future. One problem: There’s only a small handful of companies who make, can afford to make, or are willing to make, products like that.

Porn production being in the toilet isn’t just about tube sites and pirated content, it’s also about companies dumping (what looks like) the same product onto the marketplace and dumping it in unprecedented numbers. In fact, an awful lot of that same-looking product actually IS the same product, simply re-edited, re-titled, re-packaged, and recycled.

Skyrocketing talent rates aside, it’s never been cheaper or easier to make cheap porn. That’s a big reason guys like me had significantly more work when significantly less porn was being produced: There used to be a certain level of skill and know-how required. Today, none of that matters. It’s all auto-everything point-and-shoot which has put porn production in the hands of… well, of everyone and anyone.

By: BT

BT — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:10:02 +0000

As a consumer of porn who grew up in the days before VHS, I’m a convert to Bang Brothers, Brazzers and Naughty America and their distribution method. I saw my first porn in a theater, back when everything was a feature and directors tried to tell stories. Even, then, before the fast forward button, I’d just sit there waiting for Veronica Hart to stop talking to her girlfriends about the meaning of life and get it on. And, let’s get real, even my wife doesn’t want to watch a Vivid feature for the story. I’d rather watch Jesse Jane in Jack’s Playground over Pirates II any day. I’m happy to pay Naughty America a modest fee for a month to download and burn a DVD with 9 Lisa Ann scenes that I can watch at my leisure than go to the store and buy a DVD.

By: terriredor

terriredor — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:26:51 +0000

Excellent post.

My only difference is with the phrase “artificially high rates”. What? There are some kind of natural or God-given rates for sex acts performed for the camera?

I know the term has a context among economists who’ve decided that something in the economy (stocks, real estate, hookers, whatever) isn’t being sold at the rate they think it should always be sold at (inflation-adjusted, of course) … but come on.

Things are bad enough without our adopting the value terms of the assholes who got us into this national economic mess in the first place.

Yeah, that word “artificial” sucks.

Yeah.

Or, we can apply it to everything we human beings do and rid it of any significance altogether.

Oh, why bother. Thanks for the po

Terri Redor