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lk2fireone (0)
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Since the economic downturn stared around 2008, s lot of pron sites have closed.
That means that less porn is being produced.
Porn might be coming out with new features (VR, Ultra High Definition), but there is less money available to produce porn.
And I wonder what will happen under Trump?
Will he give in to conservatives and start a new crackdown on porn?
That would have a massive negative effect on porn producers. Because they don't have the money to fight big government.
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02-03-17 04:53am
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skippy (0)
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As any industry matures, there are ups, downs, advances and closures. New technology often acts as a propellant, taking an industry farther. For this industry, the smaller, poorly funded or one-man players have generally been absorbed or closed. Many of the established sites of the '90s, and some from the 00's were bought-out and run into the ground in the name of profit. Once dominant brands, like Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler are now practically on life support. This is how any industry works. New, innovative companies succeed and Luddites, poor products, poorly managed and underfunded companies fail.
What we are seeing now is a consolidation of the established porn channels into stable, high quality networks. There are still plenty of niche sites out there, but they will only survive until their owners give up, retire or sell out.
But this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Although the high-glam porn of the 80's and 90's is probably long gone, there are plenty of new things to experience and look forward to. With higher download speeds, video resolution continues to get better. (Heck, All porn is HD now. Comcast is still 90% 480P!) Quality improves. And new technologies like live web chatting and Virtual Reality provide opportunities that consumers have never seen before. (I'm not a big fan of web chats, but try a VR Web chat...It is amazing!) The fact that these technologies require capital and a new skill set bolsters the importance of new players on the production side.
The politics of porn is interesting, too. Some 50% of the connected PLANET watches it according to some statistics (Chive, maybe). Mainstream political groups don't even discuss it. Heck, Trump HAS to watch porn. He probably even has investments in it. With all the other crap he has on the table, making America button its blouse is SO not an issue. Besides, as an industry , porn is well organized and it spans borders.
So...better. Definitely better.
I see two threats to porn and they aren't what you think. The first is that in a connected world, models may become more concerned with the consequences of modeling and decide not to do it. Fortunately, there are many societies outside the US where nudity is not a big deal, so that is where we will continue to find models.
The other issue is an odd legal one. There are several predatory patent lawsuits going on in the porn industry where one sleazy company is sueing small porn producers over patent infringements. The patent is a very basic one that covers broadcasting video over the internet to groups of people. If the patent owner sued Youtube or Google, those companies have enough money to have the patent deemed unenforcible. But the patent owners go after small companies that don't have the resources to do that. It is total bullshit, but a few porn sites have paid-up and/or closed because of it.
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02-03-17 11:17am
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LPee23 (0)
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REPLY TO #1 - lk2fireone :
"And I wonder what will happen under Trump?
Will he give in to conservatives and start a new crackdown on porn?"
Don't take anything for granted. Look at how fast a single executive order changed the lives of so many trying to enter the US. How quickly do you think payment processors would respond to a similar executive order? For better or worse, Trump has already lit many other bigger fires, so hopefully the porn issue will stay on the back burner.
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02-03-17 03:50pm
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pat362 (0)
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I picked that it's more or less the same but I'm that's only if I go back maybe 3-4 year because the further back I go the worse it becomes. For me the best porn ever made was the one done in the 70's and 80's. That's not to say that you didn't have amazing porn movies in the 90's and early 2000. You bet your ass there are some amazing gems but they sort of get lost in all the other crap that it harder to remember them.
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02-03-17 05:49pm
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Drooler (Disabled)
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REPLY TO #3 - LPee23 :
Yes, I can imagine Trump grabbing porn "by the pussy," as it were, in an effort to shore up his base supporters (which can be read two ways) in a political crisis brought on by his other unpopular actions.
But it wouldn't last. Neither will he.
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02-03-17 10:39pm
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XXX Customer (0)
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Getting worse since it seems that porn stars since the mid 90's have difficulty cumming. Before the mid 90's, porn stars could cum right after pulling out. Now, most of them need a helping hand for several minutes or so to finish the job. I don't know why.
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02-04-17 12:00am
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exotics4me (0)
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Definitely getting worse for me.
The few sites that are sticking to their strength (FTV, ALS Scan, Met-Art, Kink) are still very good, but beyond those, it's like every site (Twistys and 21 Sextury are the best examples) has merged into a network and we have our choice of anal, older men/women with younger men/women, step-brother/sister/mother/father, if the music industry followed the porn industry, 95% of bands would sound like whatever is at the top of the sales chart. I don't see any way for internet porn to return to its 2005-self.
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02-04-17 10:07pm
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tangub (0)
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A mixture of both for me. Obviously the quality and resolutions are getting better at the few sites that are still thriving but the amount of new sites coming online with content that appeals to me is definitely worse, in fact I don't remember the last time I came across a new site that interested me.
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02-05-17 03:43am
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Homegirl (Disabled)
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In some ways it is getting better. I have to look for what I like.
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05-26-20 02:49am
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