As you may recall a few months back, The Advocate covered the topic of how the economic recession has affected the gay porn industry, in their article called PORN PANIC. Now the Los Angeles Times has taken to the hetrosexual sector of our industry and has reported in how bad our recession has been on the porn industry.The L.A. Times covering such a story isn't as odd as you might think. It's a lucrative part of the movie business that is headquartered in the paper's backyard, and the two businesses have one thing in common: Free Internet is killing their bottom lines.
"A growing abundance of free content on the Internet is undercutting consumers' willingness to pay for porn, and with it the ability of many workers to earn a living in the business," writes reporter Ben Fritz.
It's hard to have much sympathy for the centerpiece example of this hardship. Actress Savannah Stern has had to give up her Mercedes for a Chevy Trailblazer, and she's still making $50,o00 a year.But there's no doubt that the "talent" is getting paid less than before hard times hit. The Times' examples indicate that performers are making 50 percent less, or worse.
"I'm happy for the production, but I feel bad for exploiting the girls' situation," says one director.
Oh, right.However, the precipitous dip in earnings has had at least one felicitous side-effect. Stern thinks she might go to college, get a degree and get out of the business all together.In a business that's left behind more than its fair share of shattered, abused and dysfunctional individuals, that's what passes for a silver lining.Read the full story at the LA TIMES here
In case you missed it, Wednesday, May 20 was "Porn Day." Though of course, every day is porn day in the adult business. But two mainstream websites "celebrated" by hitting YouTube with a barrage of porn clips.Article By Edward Duncan, AVN BusinessA group of users on image-based message board 4chan and multi-media content site eBaum's World staged the "porn day" prank and YouTube has been cleaning up the mess, though it seems some images still come up in searches, despite the actual videos being yanked. The uploads actually began on Tuesday afternoon, according to ArsTechnica. Many of the uploaded clips appeared legitimate at first, starting with non-porn content, such as news or an interview.
"It may take some time for video search results and thumbnail images to disappear from the site," Google spokesperson Scott Rubin told Ars, adding the takedowns would be finished within a couple of days.
The adult clips were uploaded without any warnings on them that they contained adult content, which is certainly not funny in the least to parents whose children might frequent YouTube as well as those simply not interested in porn viewing at all and no desire to stumble upon it.Additionally, because the thumbnails in searches were still appearing as of Thursday morning, it was a cause for concern among parents in particular, considering some of the search tags included kid topics or heroes like the Jonas Brothers. Another problem is such a reckless stunt can only reflect poorly on adult companies and the industry, which could be blamed, though the prank came out of the mainstream. This could undermine responsible industry efforts in conjunction with child-protection groups such as the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection.
“It is upsetting when someone from outside the industry thinks it’s funny to expose everyone to content that is inappropriate for minors and to others who chose not to see. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was done by an anti-adult entertainment group just to discredit the adult industry which only produces content for and by adults,” ASACP CEO Joan Irvine told AVN.com. “Many of the industry leaders support ASACP’s online child protection efforts as members and sponsors and over 2.2 million sites are labeled with the Restricted to Adults – RTA Website Label in order to help parents who use parental control systems.”
Tuesday was a big day in gay publishing sales history. Unzipped Magazine dropped off the May 2009 issue of Unzipped, featuring Beau Breedlove, Portland's number 1 gay celebrity and former Mayor Sam Adam's boy-toy. While its not a question about Beau's gorgeous good looks, its more of a question about how pissed off the readers of Unzipped are. Many readers reacted harshly after they opened up the magazine and discovered that, well ... Beau really isn't so "unzipped" after all.
Beau is only half naked and readers of Unzipped are calling the magazine a "cock tease" among other things on many discussion boards across the internet. Here is a few of the comments left on Unzipped's official blog. The below video also contains bonus photos not seen in the magazine for your enjoyment just in case you to are a bit pissed after getting your hormones all amped up, only to be let down.
Seems Regent Media, the company behind the well known magazines like The Advocate, Unzipped, Freshmen and Men are raking in the cash from all of us porn loving loyals. The last issue of The Advocate scored their article, "Porn Panic" and implied that the gay porn business was near diminishing returns in sales due to the ongoing recession in our economy. In that article it relied on the complicity of interviews taken from people working within and against the gay porn industry. God knows what we will expect when June's issue of Freshmen hits the stands featuring our much controversial friend and lover, Brent Corrigan. Congratulations to the folks at Regent Media ... you got the gay porn cash-cow in tow.
As you may recall a few months back, The Advocate covered the topic of how the economic recession has affected the gay porn industry, in their article called PORN PANIC. Now the Los Angeles Times has taken to the hetrosexual sector of our industry and has reported in how bad our recession has been on the porn industry.
The L.A. Times covering such a story isn't as odd as you might think. It's a lucrative part of the movie business that is headquartered in the paper's backyard, and the two businesses have one thing in common: Free Internet is killing their bottom lines.
However, the precipitous dip in earnings has had at least one felicitous side-effect. Stern thinks she might go to college, get a degree and get out of the business all together.
In a business that's left behind more than its fair share of shattered, abused and dysfunctional individuals, that's what passes for a silver lining.
Read the full story at the LA TIMES here
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In case you missed it, Wednesday, May 20 was "Porn Day." Though of course, every day is porn day in the adult business. But two mainstream websites "celebrated" by hitting 
Tuesday was a big day in gay publishing sales history. 
