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#31
from pat362:
(asmith12's Reply)
I don't know if you've ever seen it or remember it, but there was a shampoo commercial which went something like this. I told a friend and she told a friend an so on and so on. It's numbers. If more people start to talk about it, then more people will talk about it. Sooner or later the pendulum will move in that direction. I can remember a time when anal sex was rare. If you take a look at any actress before the 80's at IAFD. You will have a hard time finding anal scenes. Take a look at almost any actress today, and tell me that didn't change. I hate to put it on the shoulders of women, but if top female performers had a condom only rule. You would see changes, but that said it requires them to be willing to lose out on good money, because they would then be offered more money to go bareback.
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11-29-07 06:00pm
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#27
from pat362:
(asmith12's Reply)
Look at it this way. Last week you were alone in believing in condom only penetration, and I was alone. Today there are 2 of us. Who knows what tomorrow will bring.
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11-27-07 06:24pm
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#25
from pat362:
(asmith12's Reply)
You and I are on the same page. Anything that can bring the message that condom use during intercourse is the only way to go, is a good thing. I've stopped reading statistics years ago, because I just couldn't bring myself to belive that in an era of Aids, Hepatitis, and all other STD's that young people still don't use condoms. I guess it starts with you, me and others out there to suggest that porn movies should be all condom.
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11-26-07 06:51pm
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#24
from pat362:
(asmith12's Reply)
You are correct that you get a lot of bacterias in a handshake, but
most of it is just your normal run of the mill bacteria. Afterall most of us do not stick our fingers in our ass before shaking hands, but there is bound to be transfers from people who do not know what soap and water is used for in a bathroom. So I guess part of it must be the quantity of bacterias you come into contact. True that they aren't tobacco companies, but they are making money out of porn.
So like a lot of corpaoration you do not want a negative light to be shined on your industry, because that could and would cost you money.
You are correct that not too many doctors would think of doing a study on the effects of atm and health.
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11-26-07 06:44pm
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#24
from Monahan:
(asmith12's Reply)
SegPay!
Thanks Denner for bringing that name up. It was one of the two that I had cancellation issues with back in 2003 or 2004. I remember them because of the strange name that still makes no sense to me.
asmith12 - that was one of the two. I haven't seen the name come up at all recently. Must be either because I look only at good sites these days (compared to 2003 before I found TBP), because they've defrauded themselves out of business or because I've just not bumped into them again.
Anyway one down, one to go.
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11-26-07 05:20pm
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#21
from TheViking:
(asmith12's Reply)
I submited one titled "How much does the CC processor affect your decision to join a site ?"
But think it would be great if you submited yours too, you might have a better angle on it with "the WORST" processor.
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11-26-07 09:58am
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#20
from Denner:
(asmith12's Reply)
Never had problems with CCBill - when I realize a site use CCBill, I feel more secure.
In contrast to SegPay for one - just had an irritating fuckup with them. When it takes several e-mails and a long wait to get what you just payed for and wanted to get into here and now, it's something that makes me hesitate to join a site that uses these guys...
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11-26-07 06:43am
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#17
from Monahan:
(asmith12's Reply)
Sorry, but no I can't remember. It was three or four years ago and they both occurred within two months of each other. Both were "flaky" sites that were trash and the processors had strange names. I'm sure I'd recognize the names if they popped up again so if they do I'll say something.
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11-26-07 03:38am
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#16
from TheViking:
(asmith12's Reply)
That would be an interesting topic for next poll.
Myself, I allways see it as a big plus if a site is ccbill caus i never had any problems with them, wheras with others I did experience some double billing and shady shit that was a pain to sort out :(
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11-26-07 03:36am
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#17
from pat362:
(asmith12's Reply)
It's Sad but true. Too many people want to see bareback porn only. I've read a few post where fans will not watch a scene if there is condom use. Of course if tommorrow all the studios made mandatory condom use for all penetration scenes, then I'm pretty sure that people would get used to it. If your choice is no new porn or condom only porn then you probably will lesrn to enjoy condom porn. Of course I live in a rose colored world because studios wil NEVER do that. That would require a united stand on the subject.
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11-25-07 09:26am
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#16
from pat362:
(asmith12's Reply)
I agree that we all in one form or another eat shit, but I think you'd agree that none of us eat it straight from the source as in someone doing an atm. True, that performers douche themselves before, but I'm affraid that only cleans part of the piping. Since you can't actually turn off the tap. You will get something from higher up going down. I'll be surprise if you ever see any medical reports on this. The industry probably doesn't want this kind of information made public.
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11-25-07 09:18am
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#11
from pat362:
(asmith12's Reply)
No matter how we cut it atm is still someone having contact with fecal matter. Someone could argue that atm is not as bad, because the bacteria in our mouths are design to proctect us from other bacterias. To them I say you eat shit and then tell me you feel OK.I enjoy reading the posts at ADT(adultdvdtalk.com), and sadly this subject comes up frequently. The general opinion from different posters, some of which are performers themselves, is that most male & female performers have had gonorrhea at least once. It gets worse from there. I think if we're going to poll people on bareback as oppose to condom, the the next poll should be how many of the voters are willing to lose all their favorite performers because of std's.
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11-24-07 06:39pm
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#6
from pat362:
(asmith12's Reply)
You are quite right, but since the question was about atm. I didn't really get into the condom or not issue. The fact is that wearing one would be beneficial to the male performer's health only, since he'd be proctected but the female would still be doing atm. Since you did mention condoms then let me say that I have no problem about making every male peformer wear a condom during intercourse. Far too many performers catch a variety of STD's which often cannot be well treated, or not at all in some dire cases. I'm actually curious to know how many people have a problem between condom and bareback sex. That might be an interesting poll.
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11-24-07 09:55am
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#13
from Rick:
(asmith12's Reply)
I should have mentioned that nothing is ever set in stone and we always look for ways to improve on things.
I do like to see brainstorming like this from users, even if it's unlikely we'll be able to make such upgrades anytime soon. Upgrading something of that magnitude would take weeks (maybe months), and it would be lower on our priority list while we work on higher priority items. Still though, worthy of discussion. I know everyone is not asking us to change anything, it's more or less interesting conversation. Either way, we're always listening. :)
I'll consider adding the "search niche" feature on PU. I can't guarantee this will be added. Maybe a convenient link to the TBP niche search would suffice though.
Keep in mind too, you can sort the niches by # of Sites (or Reviews, etc) at TBP. The PornUsers Categories default sorting is by # sites, versus A-Z.
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11-19-07 03:02pm
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#9
from Monahan:
(asmith12's Reply)
I agree with your suggested approach (niches and subniches). It simplifies searches and makes them much more effective.
Let's face it. The Porn Site business is booming and will only get bigger. Niche websites are growing far faster than broadly general sites (how many more "teen" sites can be added successfully?).
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11-19-07 07:14am
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#7
from ace of aces:
(asmith12's Reply)
deal! :o)
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11-19-07 05:26am
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#5
from ace of aces:
(asmith12's Reply)
you are maybe right if you say it`s to much to read, but e.g. solo models and mastrubating isn`t everytime the same e.g. Karup's Hometown Amateurs have mastrubating and dildo content but there are to some model sites with mostly/only naked content e.g. Amour Angels or Nakedby (ok this are not only solo model sites but there are much in the net either)
and the same with nylon sites...most of them have only hose content and no stocking content.
but you are defenetly right if you say it`s easier to have subcategories. :)
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11-19-07 05:08am
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#3
from ace of aces:
(asmith12's Reply)
hehe ...ok balloon is strange but when i look for other things like mastrubating women or stocking e. g. you can`t find that in those niches :)
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11-19-07 04:46am
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#12
from kkman112:
(asmith12's Reply)
I don't have a link offhand. Most video sites use Flash today and other than that most of them are either pay sites or bittorrent (a la Vuze). If you use bitTorrent, Vuze.com has a lot of DIVX and MOV files.
I cannot try Quicktime because I use linux, but I do have a codec that can decode MOV files on my system. Back when I used Windows I never installed Quicktime cause it was always EXTREMELY SLOW, slower than any other player and the codec was only installed for use IN THEIR PLAYER ONLY. Sorry, but I don't oblige companies that restrict use like that. I don't know if it is any different today, but I might not find out for a while. I have no interest in reinstalling XP, no interest in Vista. I MAY (and I stress MAY) install Windows 7 when it is released, but that is speculative at this point. If it turns out to be another Vista then that is not going to happen.
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11-18-07 07:18am
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#8
from kkman112:
(asmith12's Reply)
You are missing out with XviD. A LOT of videos now-a-days are encoded using it and it is a really good file format. I know DivX installs a whole bunch of c-r-a-p with their codec, but you should look at XviD ( http://www.xvid.org/ ). It is essentially an open-source version of DivX minus the "menus" feature (never used it anyway -- and DVDs aren't going to use the format). XviD doesn't come with any spyware, just the codec, install/uninstall, and settings/prefs program.
I use Linux so DivX isn't an option. XviD plays all the DivX vids though. There is a Windows (and I think Mac) version.
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11-17-07 02:37pm
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#19
from DivBZero:
(asmith12's Reply)
Asmith
Check out:
http://www.apple.com/displays/specs.html
I have the 30" (sounds a bit rude doesn't it)
There are higher resolution monitors about:
http://www.mondale-its.com/products/Tech...olution_Monitors.htm
However I'll leave those until they are just expensive rather than ridculous!
Cheers
DivB
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11-17-07 02:59am
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#17
from DivBZero:
(asmith12's Reply)
Well, Sir,
As an image fan I would say that I've spent more on my monitor than my system and disks put together. I run at 2560x1600, and quite frankly if I thought there was a better monitor out there, I'd start saving!
Div
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11-15-07 12:24pm
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#15
from jd1961:
(asmith12's Reply)
With a hi-res image, you can enlarge without dimishiment of quality. For instance, if there is a long range view of a model, you can enlarge it to show her completely in the frame without her getting fuzzy! Of course, other people use this technique for more devious reasons! BTW, this is why body part close ups in high-res photography is so dumb. For those gynecologically inclined, the zoom suffices. But we are way off subject here.
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11-14-07 08:04pm
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#11
from DivBZero:
(asmith12's Reply)
I think there are a number of factors.
a) Many vids start with industry chat, which might be interesting but not a good prelude for what is about to come (see SurburbanAmateurs for a good example of how to start off).
b) The progression is under the control of the videographer, not the viewer, you can speed and skip parts but this is not the same as an image set.
c) It tends to be a continuous performance, its very hard for a model to look at their best for every second.
d) Some models have a speaking voice that just shatters the illusion!
e) Images tend to have better resolution
Cheers Div
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11-14-07 07:15am
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#3
from Rick:
(asmith12's Reply)
That's a good simple suggestion. I'll put that on my list!
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11-01-07 08:00pm
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