Confessions of a porn site boss: How I got it up on the 'net Going to a sex shop in itself can be embarrassing at the best of times, but when I knew that I was going to ask about dodgy video tapes from dubious sources, it got a whole lot worse. "I'm looking for some more interesting kinky stuff, know where I can get any?" This was the early '90s and VHS cassettes were the norm. DVD …
Great - Can't wait for "YouFilm", where all the latest movies are legally free and I can use a ad-blocker to remove all the crap... but I can live with the occasional unblockable pop-up.
joking aside, your right, the issue is TV companies are monolithic monsters who hate change..
I was also thinking how they do revenue sharing down the distribution channels, how they actually do do distribution (which you allude to) and so on.
The porn industry isn't small by any measure, but the business culture seems to be rather different (from the outside looking in).
I could actually see myself sitting down, having a nice cup of tea and a chat with a porn mogul. A TV mogul would probably have me leaping over the table with rage in my eyes.
From what I've seen, you could spend 24/7 just looking at free stuff, including full length feature films, and you don't need to be IT savvy either . At the same time, this guy "explains" (although I still don't understand it) why so many sites just consist of links to each other. What is the point again?
In fact, it is not just porn sites. It is a curse of the Web that most search and directory sites mainly give links to other search and directory sites. Eg if I Google for "Plumber Northampton" it suggests I look in Yell and Thompsons - FFS, if I'd wanted to look in Yell or Thompsons I'd have gone there in the first place; other links are just to Northampton local directories in which plumbers may or may not feature. I have largely gone back to the paper Yellow Pages when I'm looking for stuff.
Freemium service. You pay for more and better content.
As for search engines just indexing other search engines, with decent ones like Yell/Thomson it's less of an issue as the link tends to go to actual entries. What pisses me off is when the link goes t some shitty aggregator with no content of its own.
As for traders - nothing beats word of mouth and sites like "Trusted Trader" or local council schemes. We used them to get tradespeople; all were really good and will to go above and beyond. Just make sure you have a A LOT of tea and biccies. Roofers seems to be powered by biccies! :-)
He is talking about the old days when a dirty mag was a £5 (a half days salary for some) and a pass £20 and the sites had 100 JPGS you could pay to download at paint drying speed.
What we see now is the change he will probably be dealing with in the next article. Where 'services' and full length films become the money earners and the brief bits of films are the advertising.
I once had a pint with a Porn magnate (well more like a greasy Dell Boy) a ,mate was doing some sites for him and they wanted some technical help with streaming. If you can imagine a really fat version of 'Toast of London' you aren't far wrong.
Sorry probably me being a prude but I found it uncomfortable. He did make me laugh though, apparently he and his somewhat generously proportioned family did all the responses on the online type chat lines so when you were talking to 'Kinky Kirsty' it really was a greasy fat bloke with a bad suit.
>I prefer my porn from the 70s and 80s
I prefer my porn homemade, unfortunately in my household equity have called a localized strike and pulled out all its members. Negotiations are on going and if I start being nice to the resident MILF, sorry MIL (mother-in-law) normal servicing could resume shortly.
>You make porn featuring your MIL ??!!
NO, and you don't know how much of a no that is, being nice to the MIL just means more intercourse than "good morning" and "good night" which is a waste of time as she's knocking on close to 100 and anything more is met with a blank stare.
>I think you mean "refusing entry to all members", shirley? (Assuming AC is of the male persuasion)
AC is of the male persuasion and "refusing entry to non-members" would be more appropriate
>>I prefer my porn from the 70s and 80s.
Too true....I recall working in London's West End at a particular hi-fi shop, just after VCR's became "all the rage". Due to their scarcity, video recorders kept their high prices and initially every machine we had delivered to us (from the likes of Sony, JVC, Panasonic, Akai, Sanyo, Hitachi etc) would have been pre-sold.
Within a short period of time, we got friendly with some customers who kept coming back to buy yet another machine.....plus the "cable kit" to link between them......either with PL259 or BNC video cables and a single phono/RCA cable for the sound (as early VCR's were mono). Hence a small "industry" started up, with people copying tapes and then selling them to people who had bought a VCR but wanted something different to what was on normal telly. :-)
And we had a "nice little earner" as quite a few people would ask us to copy non-copyright tapes for them (as initially there were few pre-recorded films available).....but it had to be done in real time, so with the large number of demonstration models on show, we'd link up as many machines are required (to do enough copies for the customer, plus one for "us") and this would then happen overnight.
They had to buy the blank tape the copy was recorded onto as well as pay a small service charge for the copying (which paid for our bacon sarnies).
In time, more films became available and we saw far fewer customer who wanted copy services, due to the wider availability of VCR from other outlets.....but it was fun checking over the copies we'd made to see exactly what sort of adventures some humans had got up to....
Just a shame that most of these films were from the US and had been poorly transcribed from NTSC to PAL and likewise the poor quality of any copies you made on VHS and Beta....but at the time it was quite "eye-opening".....
Eventually, there was "legal" softcore available such as Electric Blue, which sold quite well.....but not as well as the BBC Royal Wedding video's (of Chuck and Di) which we sold at full RRP of £50 each.....
"A generally misogynistic attitude" and "Guys using viagra" are the bits there that really grind my gears.
I'm not a feminist- that'd be an odd point of view to take given that I'm male- but both the male and female 'actors' in most modern porn now do seem to suck (pun not intentional).
and sod the 'essex cat' eye makeup thing, it's the deliberately-dead-eyed-as-'sexy' thing that puts me off.
The problem is that modern porn just isn't sexy. Sexy domination? The utter control over her body as you find the right spot with your tongue. Relinquishing control to her as she returns the favour. By all means use restraints, but to enhance that feeling of relinquishing control to your partner(s), not as the primary method of control while you make no attempt at exploiting it.
Obviously this goes out the window with S&M videos.
Faking it? No. Just no. That goes for either gender. I've [err..my friend has found] that some videos are better served muted, maybe with another video playing in the background to provide a better sound track. Same thing with the whole 'overly large penis' thing. Either the recipient should enjoy it or find it painful, whatever gets you/her off. Even making a show of faking that she's enjoying it because she wants him to think she's enjoying it would be okay. But faking enjoying it because 'chick love big dicks' is a terrible idea, as is the 'he is a sex god because of the size of his genitals, even though he has absolutely no idea how to use them' paradigm.
I must admit i really don't get it...
That is to say 'modern porn' is, for the many reasons listed, awful (if you don't 'get' max hardcore for eg)
now post-modern porn.... it's whatever you want, exotic, mundane, real, fake... everything all the time.
maybe you guys need to search a bit harder (fnar fnar etc etc)
I've not actually watched much 'real' porn, but what I have seen is just not attractive for those reasons. There seems to have been a 'race to the extreme' as producers struggle to out-do each other leading to a flood of videos showing mysogynistic violence and bad acting. Vanilla sex has become a niche thing!
I found the best porn isn't the real stuff. It's the artwork and erotic fiction for me, mostly the furry stuff. A good story is a lot hotter than any image to me, and the art manages to appeal far more than the dead-eyed gaze of someone who really can't act very well. I imagine there's some good real porn out there too, I've just never gone looking for it.
Kinky things in porn can be good too - lots of hotness in that field - but kinky doesn't have to mean abusive.
(Anon because I think The Boss knows my handle here.)
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"Within 24 hours of jumping on the internet I was on porn sites"
What took you so long???
Ah, I still remember, at 16, finding a vuln in a particularly wince-inducing Danish BDSM site... Got a good gig+ off that on dialup on a marathon session. Cost a few bob on the bill but I made more money selling CDs of it!
...Soft On Demand.
But, Japanese pr0n sites seem stuck in the West's 1990's heydays. Thumbnails (usually DVD covers linking back to said SOD web site), affiliate banners, personal site interlinking, pop-ups, pop-unders, top site rankings, etc, etc, and if you finally manage to find a link to a .torrent that actually works, you end up with a yet another pixellated-fannied schoolgirl who squeaks like a dog chew toy while getting poked by an anonymous pixellated knob.
So a friend tells me anyway.
Want to have some clean, NSFW fun without having to see all those pixels and hear those noises?
Go to http://www.javlibrary.com/en/vl_searchbyid.php?keyword=ABP and browse the titles translated to something that resembles English.
Here are some:
Beautiful Woman Cabin Attendant God Hata Ichihana Of Longing Perpetrated
Latest Super Addictive Este Anjo Anna Ends Up Your Service
Ayami Seasonal Fruit Injection Narrow Tit Is Not Painfully
Perversion came in many flavors.
Sorry, slight aside, but it annoys me when people refer to Thatcher saying there is no such thing as society.
If you read the original, rather than the out-of-context soundbite that the left pushed and propagated, you'd see that what she was actually saying was totally unrelated to the hysterical left-wing accusations:
I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand “I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!” or “I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!” “I am homeless, the Government must house me!” and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business and people have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations, because there is no such thing as an entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation ...
Of course the left stop partway through at "there is no such thing", which I find to be a particularly dishonest position. There are a few ways of understanding what she was saying, but after reading the second part you'd have to either be really indoctrinated or wilfully blind to continue asserting that she said what she is accused of saying other than in the most literal and out-of-context way.
In fairness, it appears to have been something of a (whisky-fuelled?) ramble which is quite hard to parse.
Thatcher was carefully ignoring the central point, which was that while it might be "our duty to look after ourselves", her government was engaged in making this as difficult as possible for people who were poor or disabled (as is the present one).
My wife assists with a Credit Union, and when you understand the problems that State bureaucracy creates for some people, you start to get quite angry. Such as someone with schizophrenia risking eviction because the State changed the benefits system and ordered him to attend an interview by second class post (where the letter was duly lost) instead of making a phone call and so verifying that he knew about it.
Life is a reciprocal business, perhaps, but it needs to be understood that Conservative policy, accidentally or by malice, seems to aim at ensuring that this only applies to the rich, and then in the form of "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours."
If Thatcher was misunderstood, it was because the sound bite summed up, for many, the core philosophy of her government. It's interesting that Boris Johnson has now had a similar senior moment.
but if you want to join in, realpunting.com shows uk escorts doing the deed, so you can "try before you buy". Alternatively, the private club in birmingham is a good place to visit when they are filming for their websites. (I am not associated with these sites).
Sad to see the Register reduced to promulgating free adverts for wank sites. I came here to read-up on technology, if I want to read-up on porn, I can do that on on my own, I know how to use a search engine.
The article was *about* IT. The fact that the product being sold was porn is occasionally amusing, but not the overriding point. If you can't read about the porn *business* without separating it from the sexuality, I suspect *you* may be more obsessed with it than those you accuse.
That link leads to an interesting PhD thesis in anthropology from New Zealand, remarkably free of academic jargon and genuinely interesting.
The author makes a core point, that some women get pleasure from displaying their bodies, and whether the result is pornographic or not depends on a number of factors, a major one of which is the semasiology around the event. (this is a very short abstract indeed, the whole document contains a lot of interesting insights)
It's about a million miles away from a discussion of internet porn, and leads me to think that New Zealand just might be a lot more culturally advanced than that big island continent two thousand kilometres away.
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