Filed under: News | Tags: adult entertainment, adult erotica, Fetish & the Internet, larry flynt, porn industry bail out
Mr. Flynt isn’t stupid – he used to have a great instinct for marketing – but the Kingpin of the Hustler Empire has just made America realize he’s a dick. Larry has suggested, along with that other genius who exploits drunk girls for Girls Gone Wild, that the government should bail out the US porn industry which is experiencing a 25% drop in sales.
To refute the lame dick, shameless self-promotion of this latest Flynt outburst would be a waste of time and energy. But in case any of you are wondering if porn is going to become as endangered as the roll out of the Hummer H4 – I have one word for you.
Relax.
A 25% drop in sales of adult entertainment is actually a good thing. Production costs will be stabilized, if not reduced. (I’m already getting calls from vendors offering to drop rates that they quoted back in the summer of ’08.)
Companies that cannot compete in price and quality will fade away. Enthusiastic amateurs who think adult entertainment is an easy way to wealth will probably not hit the credit card to put up a site or buy a used Panasonic HVX on eBay to tape the wife removing her panties. I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling better already.
Producers will find that ‘star” performers will be more willing to work at reasonable rates. Newcomers will find their way into the business just as readily as before – and some might be more special than usual given the hard financial times. The hot MILF who wouldn’t have considered going “adult” in pre-credit crunch times might now be ready to jump in for that additional income. Producers are going to have a much larger and more impressive pool of talent to choose from in 2009.
Content providers will have to work harder to bring their audience in – and that means more quality and better value for money. Expensive sites that promise much and deliver little will either change or disappear.
It’s all good, Larry. Your choice is this. Retire yourself, and the sadly pathetic image of the bloated, venal pornographer — or stop whining and get with the new “New Deal” program.
The bottom line is we’re closing the door on the old school production and delivery of adult entertainment,– and this economy is helping us do it.
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