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Despite economic downturn, promises that were not kept, and delay after delay – zero hour is finally approaching. My original intention was to roll out the first of my pay sites, Fem Dom Fascination, in Fall ‘08 — but my best laid plans failed to materialize.
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.
Filed under: Fetish & the Internet, Lifestyle Roles, News | Tags: Carl La Fong, Carla Fong, Kim Murphy Los Angeles Times, Lifestyle Roles, Silverton, Stu Rasmussen, Transgendered, Westboro Baptist Church
No, I’m not Carla Fong.
The name’s Fong, Carl La Fong. Not Carla Fong.
My phone rang early this morning due to a front page story that appeared in today’s Los Angeles Times, under Kim Murphy’s byline.
Turns out there’s a Mayor of a small town - Silverton, Oregon – called Stu Rasmussen. During his first couple of terms as Mayor of this former lumber town, Mayor Rasmussen was, in his own words, “a very straight-looking guy”. The Mayor is a software engineer and the long time manager of the local cinema.
Filed under: Fetish & the Internet, News | Tags: adult entertainment, fetish, kink, Peter Acworth, pornography revenues, US pornography
Clearly, in planning new fetish sites, I’m not coming out of retirement to spend money on a recreational activity. Some people might see my work, photographing beautiful women in erotic situations, as the best job in the world – and it’s certainly better than digging ditches – but I’m here not just to have fun and provide great content but to make modest profits.
The adult industry makes huge revenues. Total revenue from US pornography is estimated around $12 billion/year. That’s up 35% from the years immediately prior to the internet explosion. There’s a couple of companies out there who make over $120 million/year. The best fetish company in the US, Peter Acworth’s Kink.com, estimates earnings north of $16 million/year.
Filed under: Fetish & Art, Fetish & Erotica, News | Tags: Allen Jones, Bob Carlos Clarke, Fetish & Art, Fetish Photography, Helmut Newton, London Fetish Scene, The Commander, The Dark Summer
I was over in London recently, went through my storage, and brought back a couple of limited edition framed fetish-erotic prints, signed by photographer Bob Carlos Clarke.
Bob Carlos Clarke 1950-2006
I remember buying them in a Fulham gallery sometime in 1985, after some lengthy bargaining with the dealer. They’re from a series Carlos Clarke called “The Dark Summer” – part of a collection he published that year in one of those big coffee-table books that few of us can afford.
The prints have good frames and I had space on my walls – so I hung them up, and everyone who comes by my office admires them, especially women. It was a shock then, on doing a quick google search for recent news on the photographer, to learn that Bob Carlos Clarke had struggled with clinical depression and had committed suicide by train in 2006.
