Porn Industry Needs a Stimulus Plan

CommanderFrank

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The porn industry has proven not to be recession proof after all. The revenue generated by the porn industry has been going down for several years with no end in sight. Industry insiders are quick to blame the decline on internet sites pirating their work and posting it online.

"It had never crossed our minds that we'd be competing with people who just give it away for free."
 
I+think I'm going to pay for porn (well, part of it).

It's a respectable industry, especially compared to the major music/movie companies.
 
IIRC, Steve has an actual stash of porn that fills up an entire room of his house.
 
So...lemme get this straight: Someone making $50k a year is complaining that they're making too little money in a job where the only requirement is that you be 18??? WTF?

What am I missing?
 
No its not the piracy thats killing the porn industry its the free amateur porn that is. When I go looking for stuff for my girl and I to watch we always choose the amateur couples making out and getting into it over a high priced faker.

Sorry porn industry but sex is something we can all do (no silicone involved) and we don't need much more then a web cam and enough light to film it.
 
Bullshit!

I work at a store that sells adult videos. Once a week we'd get A box from one of the vendors, and sometimes a shipping envelope with a couple titles. Now every vendor we have is shipping us giant boxes of fuck almost every other day. Its like a weekly celebration of the human reproduction system. We even get the documentaries on the adult film industry quite regularly.

And our shelves for the shit are still half empty.

And where I work is supposed to be in the biggest fucking anti-porn prude area in the state. Yes I know there's irony in there somewhere.

Porn doesn't need a stimulus plan. It, like any other industry right now, needs to learn how to adapt to the current times.
 
Porn needs to drive further into the niche market, shit that most people won't do for free.. Things that people are ashamed others know they like.. I'm sure that goldmines been tapped at least some..
 
How come nobody ever complains about piracy of porn? Seriously, who pays for that shit anymore?
 
While I will agree that the INTERNET has caused porn to decline as far as sales from an individual source. Sad fact is now there are a bazillion different places to get porn, while sure piracy does come into play, most of it is because who the fuck wants to spend $20-30 on a porno when you can get a month membership and access to ALL the videos that they have ever did for the same price.

she was once making $1,000 per sex scene, she was down to $700 a scene, and where her yearly income was $150,000 a year, she was now down to $50,000 a year.
This shows it right here, the per scene rate is 70% of what it used to be, but the yearly income is 33% of what it used to be. There is other talent out there, that is willing to accept less money for what literally is just fucking and sucking, and in many cases they're fresher and don't look as fake.
 
While I will agree that the INTERNET has caused porn to decline as far as sales from an individual source. Sad fact is now there are a bazillion different places to get porn, while sure piracy does come into play, most of it is because who the fuck wants to spend $20-30 on a porno when you can get a month membership and access to ALL the videos that they have ever did for the same price.


This shows it right here, the per scene rate is 70% of what it used to be, but the yearly income is 33% of what it used to be. There is other talent out there, that is willing to accept less money for what literally is just fucking and sucking, and in many cases they're fresher and don't look as fake.

Yeah... i think the huge budget porn stars who were fake looking are the ones who are complaining... the markets simply flooded with... "talent"....

Also, who wants to see the same woman getting railed in the ass 30 times... they want new assholes to gawk at.... the nature of the market having such variety and so many actresses available means everyone as a whole will get less work
 
While I will agree that the INTERNET has caused porn to decline as far as sales from an individual source. Sad fact is now there are a bazillion different places to get porn, while sure piracy does come into play, most of it is because who the fuck wants to spend $20-30 on a porno when you can get a month membership and access to ALL the videos that they have ever did for the same price.


This shows it right here, the per scene rate is 70% of what it used to be, but the yearly income is 33% of what it used to be. There is other talent out there, that is willing to accept less money for what literally is just fucking and sucking, and in many cases they're fresher and don't look as fake.

If people were paying $30.00 month, I'm sure the industry would be very happy. The question is why would you pay $30.00/month when you can go to any number of youtube like sites, or, for that matter, just use Google or Bing, to get anything under the sun for free?

And a quick search for "amateur" videos turns up an inordinate number of videos that are anything but amateur.
 
They should "diversify", Do some tentacle porn. LOL

Western porn is too tame when compared to Japan. I won't go into the details anymore, but, yeah. I think you know what I mean already.
 
They should "diversify", Do some tentacle porn. LOL

Western porn is too tame when compared to Japan. I won't go into the details anymore, but, yeah. I think you know what I mean already.

True, and yet ironic, that so much of japanese porn is actually blurred out. Rape by alien tectacle-dicked demons is cool, but don't show a human dick for the love of God...
 
There's enough porn to last 10 lifetimes already available, and any more that's needed is being added by amateurs, which is better anyway. Or so I've heard :D
 
This shows it right here, the per scene rate is 70% of what it used to be, but the yearly income is 33% of what it used to be. There is other talent out there, that is willing to accept less money for what literally is just fucking and sucking, and in many cases they're fresher and don't look as fake.

You're making assumptions. The article also said that overall porn industry revenues are down 10% in two years ('08 to '10). They didn't give any time frames for the chick's income drop, but it's very likely that her $150k salary was before the recession and the $50k salary was after. Like everyone else said, there's enough free porn on the Internet for anyone to get off without spending a dime. If the whole industry's revenues are falling, they'd be letting people go and not producing as much "entertainment", not hiring more and spending more to sell to a smaller audience. The reason for the drop is probably due to a lack of demand.
 
LOL good point Paul that'll never happen. To clarify, by lack of demand I mean demand for pay per porno, not porno in general. When people are in a bind, what do they cut out first? The nonessentials. I mean I might like my premium 36" horsecock fucking, but what's wrong with an average footmang BBC every once in a while? :D

And also the person I quoted before is right in that there is more competition. When times are tough people become desperate, and casting in porn is desperate IMO. Amateur pay for porno has probably become a lot more competitive.
 
porn industry is dying because there is too much repetitive shit and overexposure.
the same girls fucking the same guys.

and there's too little good amateur talent coming in. Maybe 1 out of every 20 new girls coming in is worth watching.

also, it seems more people are interested in random video clips on pornsites than repetitive dvd's Vivid and Digital Playground put out.
If you look at all the studio movies, they all have the same old cast, the same tired fucking, seen one seen them all.
How do you expect people to keep buying tired old shit ?
 
Here's a side thought: Maybe the girl's pay went down because.. well.. she got older. Let's be serious here, how many times have you seen a porno that said "Hot 25 year olds!" :p
 
Here's a side thought: Maybe the girl's pay went down because.. well.. she got older. Let's be serious here, how many times have you seen a porno that said "Hot 25 year olds!" :p

That seems to be a frequent mistake workers in the sex trade of all types (strippers, porn actresses, prostitutes, etc) make is that what they make is sustainable. They think they'll ear the same, or more, as time goes on. Well in most careers that's true, your earnings steadily increase with experience in to at least your 40s and often your 50s and even beyond. However it is not true in the sex industry. It rewards youth, not experience. You'll make the biggest bucks when you are young, and then probably find your earnings drop to zero rather quickly.
 
Yeah, was talking to a guy at Brazzers and he was saying how some are not even updating their sites anymore and just trying to get new customer using the same old material. But they are still hiring and paying girls a crazy amount of money for doing almost nothing. So it couldn't be too bad. Just not ideal.
 
If people were paying $30.00 month, I'm sure the industry would be very happy. The question is why would you pay $30.00/month when you can go to any number of youtube like sites, or, for that matter, just use Google or Bing, to get anything under the sun for free?
See that's the thing, you don't have to pay $30 a month, you pay $30 for one month, often the sites are linked to a bunch of other sites that your "subscription" pays for, you can download years worth of videos, and no longer subscribe. Maybe in another year you do another month for all the "new stuff" that came out.

And yeah porn is all over the internet, but you know what I see pirated more (well .. have personally seen more ;)) is the cheaper stuff, the stuff direct to internet, why? Because it's already in an avi file or whatever, it's one step from there to everywhere. Porn you buy that's boxed? Who the fuck wants to rip a DVD? Or download 800mb of porn when you're only going to be really watching a few minutes of it :D

Yes revenues are down, but that's because there's a ton of cheap and fast porn out there that's cutting into their business.
 
I+think I'm going to pay for porn (well, part of it).

It's a respectable industry, especially compared to the major music/movie companies.

I don't know about that, though I'd rate the mainstream industry as more respectable than the Federal government.

I think there's an old line that goes along the lines of --"If you've gotta pay for it, is it really worth it?" ;)
 
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