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: Forum Erotica | Tags: adult erotica, alex jordan, black stockings, don hart, erotic film, hard core pornography, high heels, jean-pierre ferrand
American Hard Core Director, Jean-Pierre Ferrand was a very close and dear friend of mine. He passed away a few years ago and I miss him. Ferrand made some excellent hard-core movies during the 80’s and 90’s and was well respected in the industry. He taught me a great deal about the American approach to hard core – and those were difficult lessons for me because I always resisted the formula. In fact, I have a Problem with Porn – something Ferrand and I discussed many times.
Filed under: Fetish & the Internet | Tags: adult erotica, BDSM, content, erotic, fem dom, fetish, film, internet, pornography addiction, sex
Christie Brinkley’s divorce from 4th husband Peter Cook got salacious and nasty, with revelations that his use of internet porn got completely out of hand. I guess most men would wonder why anybody married to an internationally renowned beauty like Brinkley would even want to indulge in the old one-handed mouse movement game. And the answer is, of course, he couldn’t stop himself. Somehow, the thrill of internet porn over-whelmed the reality of being married to one of the world’s most beautiful women.
Filed under: News | Tags: adult erotica, BDSM, domination, erotic, fantasy, fem dom, fetish, film
After almost a decade in retirement, legendary producer Carl La Fong has returned to adult entertainment with his own special brand of Fetish content.
Incredible as it may seem, Carl La Fong began his career as a 12-year-old schoolboy. “I belonged to the school camera club,” he tells us. “It didn’t take me long to figure out I had a eager audience of curious 12-year-olds. I found some girlie magazines, photographed them and made prints that I sold. It didn’t occur to me at the time that I was pirating content!”
La Fong’s real career began in London, where he started out in advertising and television. He found his inspiration in ‘underground’ grindhouse cinemas that screened American and Swedish stag films, and their British equivalents. Harrison Marks, the British Russ Meyer, became La Fong’s role model. “Harrison was a huge influence on me,” says La Fong, “my first pseudonym in the business was ‘Edward Marks’ out of respect for his work”.
