They make videos of women degrading men. They are in a real place of power, and even stomp on the guys' balls wearing high heels and stuff. You might dig that.
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Does anyone even pay for porn?
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I fast forward through an entire two or three hour movie. I'll skip to the first scene "Nope", then the next one "Nope" and on and on it goes until I find something palatable.
Apologies, you're correct transgender is the correct term, however I am not so sure about queer, I do know several gay people who use it amongst themselves however they do find it offensive if heterosexual people say it
You mean free as in the content can be found online for free or free as in people are actively producing and distributing that content for free? Because I could name a whole lot of industries for the former and I'm not sure how much of the free porn out there was intended to be distrusted like for the latter.
I suspect that porn is a lot like Free2Play videogames, where almost everyone pays nothing but production costs and budgets are covered by maybe less than 5% of users that actually pay. But those 5% of users spend so much ridiculous money that it makes the entire venture worthwhile.
That said, I imagine that plenty of people pay for porn. People with particular fetishes that are underserved by streaming sites, people that waat high-quality or HD video, people that don't want to sit around waiting for particular scenes to be uploaded to a torrent service. People that are looking for a particularly obscure actress who only has a couple scenes on streaming sites but many more scenes on paysites. If you view porn as a commodity and don't care about video quality or a particular actress or a particularly good style of direction, then you'll never pay. If you can't find what you want for free, you just move on to something else that's not as good.
Plus since the death of Empornium and then PureTNA and then Cheggit, it seems like there's a vacuum in the porn torrent world that has left a lot of people wanting. There's no real central depository for all the pirated material, so I assume some enthusiasts just end up paying because they cannot find what they want on the dozen minor torrent/streaming websites that are trying to fill the void.
That said, I imagine that plenty of people pay for porn. People with particular fetishes that are underserved by streaming sites, people that waat high-quality or HD video, people that don't want to sit around waiting for particular scenes to be uploaded to a torrent service. People that are looking for a particularly obscure actress who only has a couple scenes on streaming sites but many more scenes on paysites. If you view porn as a commodity and don't care about video quality or a particular actress or a particularly good style of direction, then you'll never pay. If you can't find what you want for free, you just move on to something else that's not as good.
Plus since the death of Empornium and then PureTNA and then Cheggit, it seems like there's a vacuum in the porn torrent world that has left a lot of people wanting. There's no real central depository for all the pirated material, so I assume some enthusiasts just end up paying because they cannot find what they want on the dozen minor torrent/streaming websites that are trying to fill the void.
there's a difference between piracy and competition
Im talking about how any reasonably hot couple with passable tech assets can be a competitor. Im sure gaf will agree amateur stuff is often better than the produced stuff
Television and film : Youtube
Music: Radio, youtube, tons of other free distribution platforms
Video games: FTP
Print: websites
The pirated to legit free content ratio in the above industries is probably much healthier then the Porn industry.
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The pirated content drowns that stuff.
There's way more original content on youtube then there is on redtube.
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kittens
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What's your point? That's cool. I'm not into it, but it's cool.
Yeah, it's complicated. I'm hetero and I use it amongst my friends and friends of friends, and it's fine. But used as a slur it's definitely not okay. That's the general rule. There's a contingent who prefers the more specific LGBT term, but those people are few. I've only ever met one person who expressed offense, and it was someone in their fifties, from an older generation of queer politics and feminism.
Vermillion
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Never heard of that before. There's a difference between transgender and transsexual, anyways. The former refers to gender identity, the latter refers to sex.
I want to give you a medal or trophy or something.
So the Porn industry is funded by Fleshlight sales?
Coloress_Kafka
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I don't believe in paying $30 a month to have access to a site but I will occasionally buy a full movie. Mainly from Triga because I have a thing for scummy looking UK guys and they tend to pick the best ones.
... Then what's your point. There is all kinds of stuff out there for those who want to watch dudes busting their nut on a chick or having them be busted by the chick's high heels. I mean, the internet is porn.
Brian Griffin
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I paid for a sub to FTV once since everything was available for download. The owner had a limit on the site but it was something huge like 25gb a day so I ended up with over 500gb when I canceled.
Youtube: You telling me there's a West Wing equivalent one Youtube? Cause if there is it certainly doesn't have the following West wing does.
Music: But it's the same content. Unless you're a hipster and trying to get something no one's heard before it's the same content.
FTP: They're usually anything but. they will get you with a micro transactoin at some point. And even if they don't they tend not to have production values as pay 2 play. And even if they are that's the problem with porn the more it's heavily produced the more fake it is the less it's appealing.
Print: That's actually a fairly good point, especially in the game "journalism" area. You have behemoths like Kotaku and IGN producing content that's frankly not as good as a lot of amateur reviewers. That's another industry I'd like to get into. That and blockbuster. I'd love to try and save blockbuster.
As to pirated stuff. I get your point. There's not much content yet but look at camgirls. All it takes is someone to come up with a porn video website that pays the submitters based on views and then that youtube vs. redtube problem will go away.
You have 500gb of porn? Good lord man do you own shares in Kleenex or something?
And yet you're avoiding us
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kittens
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My point is that most porn sites are overwhelmingly misogynstic, play up rape culture, and conversely don't emphasis consent enough -- which I find shitty. They are also super heteronormative and just plain normative -- which I find somewhat shitty, but also just one dimensional.
I gotta run, but anyone can do a quick search on feminist porn to get a better idea of where I'm (probably) coming from (pun intended).
Haha....I haven't paid for anything for well over 2 years, but I definitely know the feeling. You find some actress that completely does it for you, but she doesn't do anything for many other people so nobody has uploaded her stuff to streaming sites or torrent sites. Then you google "her name" and find that she has all kinds of awesome stuff hidden behind a paywall on some site. You try googling "her name + torrent" and all it does is turn up two dozen false results that lead you to spyware, malware, and other kinds of shady bullshit. 95% of people probably give up and just go watch something else, but a dedicated few will actually pay to see more of her stuff.....and that's where the money gets made.
Plus at this point I think most streaming sites are in cahoots with paysites, allowing a couple full-length videos of a particular girl, but not allowing the streaming sites to post newer or better content that features the same girl. So many times you find the same clips again and again on every streaming site, but if you want something better it's only on the paysite. Most people will settle for watching the same free video of the same chick again and again, but a certain few will convert over the the paysite so they can view different content.
I also imagine that the paysites at this point are Search Engine Optimization masters, and they rig it so that Google Search results are filled with bogus links and shady bullshit. So eventually the average user has to either give up or start paying for the official site.
Vermillion
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It's all fantasy. Do you really need a fantasy disclaimer for everything you watch? I'm certain that people understand that already - anything more is superfluous.
BadAss2961
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Sometimes the BJ is the best part. I have a thing for those that specialize in it.
Just because you prefer productions values in movies and television and the opposite for porn doesn't mean everybody else does. Also there are tons of FTP games that are add supported/cosmetic Microtransactions only. You applied your personal music tastes to my music example as well.
Brian Griffin
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Haha. I said I downloaded it, not that I had watched it all. I wanted to get my money's worth so I downloaded as much as I could and have been watching it over time when I feel in the mood for some 1080p goodness. Most of the clips are hundreds of mbs in size so it's not as much as it sounds.
But by and large youtube and independent production doesn't go up against hollywood studios. Hell you see a porn video a GAFer made being as popular as professionally made videos. In youtube you might get a viral hit or a psy but with the consistency of a network show? Come now. You're just being contrarian.
But again that's the thing. It's a mass market. It's the general tastes you're going for. Sure their's always gonna be hipsters but they don't account for the general consumption populace.
PaulExcellent
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I paid once.
Once.
Once.
Now, my lady doesn't want me looking at that.
Spring-Loaded
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Like Xbox Live
Speaking of that, I'm in the totally ludicrous position of remembering a girl from clips back in the day, but absolutely haven't seen any clips/movies of her in like 8 years and I don't know her name. I've even tried scouring pics in iafd to try and find her, but no luck at all.
There are tons of channels that get millions of hits a week. Not everything on Youtube is "you go viral or you go nowhere".
I am by no means a master of Google-Fu, but if you can at least get a girl's first name and the website she appeared on, then you have some hope of finding more of her stuff. Most sites watermark their videos so it's not hard to get the site's name.....though you may have to pay attention to the audio of the video to get the girl's name.
Plus I think there's plenty of streaming sites that host "Who is this girl?!" videos, where you can upload something and the resident mega-perverts will tell you the name of the actress.
Pink Label VOD.
I, like kittens, have serious ethical issues with a lot of porn. I'd rather spend my money trying to support actual good porn than to save $20 wanking off to Brazzers videos I torrented. Given the small percentage of stuff out there I truly enjoy, and the struggle most of those directors/performers go through financially, I want to give them my money. My partner and I drove like 800 miles round trip to go to a workshop put on by one of our favorite performers/directors. It was worth every minute and every penny.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I have a paid Naughty America account that I use all the time. I think its like 12 bucks a month, I don't know. I like them because they have a tendency to have super hot chicks and I want to see the entire scene because I tend to spend most of my time watching porn scrolling around the scene looking for the absolute best part/angle etc.
Agent Cooper
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Hahahahaha
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Winterfang
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I give dollars to live cams every once over three months or so.
I don't think you can plausibly claim that YouTube really competes with the movie and TV industries, beyond the claim that there's only so many hours in a day and more people are starting to spend more time with YouTube than they are films, DVDs, and TV shows. But in that same sense, Facebook and Angry Birds are also competing with the film and TV industries.
For long-form cinema and full-length episodic content, YouTube cannot often rival major film studios or television networks. Netflix's recent efforts with House of Cards and Arrested Development are probably the first time that a web-based provider has really tried to compete with traditional entertainment industries in terms of length and production values.
What the fuck???
"Lol hey guys knock before you come in...just watching my feminist porn".
Deified Data
Banned
It's somehow hotter when it's free.
Yeah, I know. The long version of the story is I remember seeing her back in the early aught's on those clip sites that mainly linked to preview videos of paysites, back before tubes were around. The problem is I don't know her name, I don't have any of her clips saved anywhere (even checked my old computer), and I haven't seen her on any sites in years. The *only* thing I have to go on is I'm pretty sure she did a scene with Lex Steel (his signature moaning during the money shot being the giveaway). Unfortunately he's worked like thousands of performers so that doesn't help much. A while back I actually scoured iafd and looked at almost every actress he worked with and couldn't find her picture in there, though the pictures there often don't really well resemble the actress. Also tried searching Lex Steel in those aggregate sites and got nothing. If I had even a pic or video, I could upload it and ask for comments who she is but... nothing. I'm pretty sure I've exhausted all my options save for hoping I randomly see her again, and can do the whole asking thing.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
It's interesting to see some actually pay. I don't get the live cam stuff. It seems kind of boring to me (at least for the public previews) and a bit forced. I'd feel too dirty seeing anything like that.
Yeah. I hate fake looking porn, specially all the forced moaning. The porn I see has natural flowing moans lol.
Yeah. I hate fake looking porn, specially all the forced moaning. The porn I see has natural flowing moans lol.
GraveHorizon
poop meter feature creep
I considered buying some eroge once, but I had already played it so what's the point. What do I need to see in paid porn that I can't see in stuff that already exists for free on a tube site or that I can download somewhere?
I hate it when they say "Oh yeah, do it on my face!", then press their lips real tight and squinch up their face to avoid getting any of that disgusting semen in any of their openings. Don't lie to me like that. Either guzzle it down and show how delicious it is or don't even pretend like you want it near you at all. And when they pretend like anal feels good for them, when it clearly is uncomfortable at the least. And the guy isn't even pumping that fast, so they really must not be into it.
As for the sound, I keep it muted 95% of the time. It's very rarely any good hearing what they're doing, whether it's the woman saying "Oh yeah, oh yeah! Yes!" over and over, the man grunting/moaning/making sound at any volume, or an individual of unspecified gender making distinctly masculine noises.
I hate it when they say "Oh yeah, do it on my face!", then press their lips real tight and squinch up their face to avoid getting any of that disgusting semen in any of their openings. Don't lie to me like that. Either guzzle it down and show how delicious it is or don't even pretend like you want it near you at all. And when they pretend like anal feels good for them, when it clearly is uncomfortable at the least. And the guy isn't even pumping that fast, so they really must not be into it.
As for the sound, I keep it muted 95% of the time. It's very rarely any good hearing what they're doing, whether it's the woman saying "Oh yeah, oh yeah! Yes!" over and over, the man grunting/moaning/making sound at any volume, or an individual of unspecified gender making distinctly masculine noises.
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