Filed under: BDSM, Fetish & Erotica, Fetish & the Internet, Lifestyle Roles | Tags: adult entertainment, BDSM, female domination, FemDom Fascination, fetish, Fetish & the Internet, Fetish Model, Fetish Photography
Further to last month’s post about the La Fong Fem Dom style, I thought it would be instructive to introduce a “Mistress of the Month” featuring a domme who perfectly captures the correct attitude and spirit. We’ll start this month – so watch this space.
Filed under: BDSM, Fetish & the Internet, News | Tags: adult entertainment, affiliate marketing, fem dom fasincation
You might have noticed that the Fetish Sites I have been proposing – ever since June 2008 – have not yet appeared.
I had hoped to bring the first of those sites – Fem Dom Fascination – online within a year of announcing my return from retirement.
Alas, those plans got hit hard early on when an important collaborator left the project, and although nobody is irreplaceable it has been very difficult to find someone with the correct skillsets. Like others before me, I’ve had to learn the hard way.
The La Fong Archives, and its associated sites, were always intended to be produced by a small core of people – but that core group got even smaller as the recession hit home.
For a while, I thought the recession was going to be a blessing in disguise for small operators like myself – but in increasingly difficult times the business response was to flood the market with “free content”. It became hard to find even a minor investment partner when the response was always the same – “Why should I invest in a business where the audience gets the content for free?”
And although the “free content” is seldom “good content”, it remains true that the average surfer can find enough to keep them entertained with a quick search.
It occurred to me that Affiliate Marketing might be one way to create enough cashflow to service my proposed sites but that possibility shrinks as more and more small-scale entrepreneurs become Affiliates of the Big Companies rather than go to the expense of developing and marketing their own content.
The real benefit of not having the sites launched yet is that I’ve had plenty of time to really consider and refine the business model that I’m going to adopt. Fem Dom Fascination at its sister sites may be a long time in the making – but I’ll get there eventually. Maybe this year?
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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, Forum Erotica | Tags: adult entertainment, Bay Guardian, BDSM, fetish, Fuckingmachines, Hogtied, kink, Peter Acworth, San Francisco Armory
A few weeks ago, someone very kindly brought me a copy of the San Francisco Bay Guardian featuring a 3 page article on the Donald Trump of Fetish, Mr. Peter Acworth.
The article centred on Mr. Acworth’s $14.5 million purchase of the former San Francisco Armory which, at 200,000 square feet, is the largest space devoted to the production of fetish content in the western world.
Acworth in the Armory
Fascinating information was revealed about Mr. Acworth and his Kink.com empire, not least that he is English (and aren’t most fetish pornographers?), his Mom is a sculptor and his Dad is a former Jesuit priest.
