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Porn Recession Will Ruin Us All ... Again

You may not have heard anything about this on the news, but there seems to be something wrong with the "economy." Things are more expensive and our mortgages need more oil or something. Fortunately, we still have porn ... or do we? People don't like to spend money in a recession, but they do really like porn, so if they're not spending money on that then we must really be in trouble. News does travel slowly, but now even Miami knows (thanks to local TV station CBS 4) that porn DVDs aren't doing so hot. They're losing money to the online internets ... except if people are going to the internet, then they're probably still spending money. They're just you know ... spending it somewhere else. Of course, there's the free internet places like YOURporn, which is not to be confused with the actual site that some dude at the office told this reporter to check out. But don't worry—someday porn will all be in 3-D! That will fix everything! Right?

· Poor Porn Sales: Another Sign Of Recession? (cbs4.com)

Previously: Is Porn The Harbinger Of (Economic) Doom?

5:50 PM on Tue May 13 2008
By Dashiell Bennett
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Latest by thelushie: @RickBarrs: I was talking about something with a plot line or something with vintage value, ie. Debbie Does Dallas. more »

The mobile porn market could be worth $5 billion worldwide in five years, yet somehow we still can't figure out how to make Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" our ringtone. That's science for you. (aetoday.com)

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Is Porn The Harbinger Of (Economic) Doom?

According to some of the leading financial minds in the country, our current economic state is—what's the technical term? Oh yeah ... "not good." Consumer confidence is down, debt is up, and China is slowly poisoning us with lead toys that you can get for a $1.50 at Wal-Mart even though it cost you $4 in gasoline to get there. But that's not what worries Variety editor Peter Bart: It's the porn business, stupid! That's how he knows things are rough, because dirty DVD sales are down. We really are in trouble! More »

1:30 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Dashiell Bennett
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Latest by josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you: But what about all the women who move into &/or return to stripping as the job market tanks & they get laid off? Is the gentlemen's club not the most public face of sex work? The sex industry is more more »

When Max Met Abby An anonymous source just tipped us off with more details about that controversial new Abby Winters website redesign we posted about yesterday: apparently the company is revamping its image in advance of an upcoming collaboration with Max Hardcore later this year. "We see this as an opportunity to extend our brand presence in North America and among audiences, such as Mr. Hardcore's, who might not be familiar with our unique brand of happy, honest, guiltfree erotica," an Abby Winters representative did not say, to which Hardcore added "Yeah, show Daddy your dirty little fuck hole." Tentatively titled "Fiona's Intimate Gaping Adventure", the first DVD in the Abby Winters XXXTreme series will ship later this year. (Yeah, we thought the title could use a little work too.)

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Business analysts are taking a closer look at the proposed IPO for Penthouse Media Group. Will your portfolio become engorged with cash or limp and flaccid with premature insolvency? Sorry ... stock talk always gets us hot and bothered. (thestockmasters.com + abcnews.go.com)

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Remember that vegan strip club that opened like six weeks ago in Portland? Yeah, it's up for sale on Craigslist already. Serious buyers only, of course, because Craigslist is where serious businessmen go to buy serious businesses. (craigslist, via Gawker, via rivercitykitty.com)

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Babeland Launches Sex Toy Line Following in the footsteps of Good Vibrations, Babeland recently announced the launch of their very own line of sex toys, debuting with three very promising items: the Aqua Wand, the Nubby G, and the Odyssey Tickler. They're all made of high quality materials and come wrapped in classy packaging (= no King Kong Dildos here) and we can't wait to get our hands on them for some upcoming Marital Aid Test Kitchen reviews. Not to mention our other parts.

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Remember that proposed .xxx domain? Yeah, we'd pretty much forgotten about it too — and after this recent failed lawsuit we're pretty sure you can kiss those dreams of owning DirtpipeMilkshakes.xxx good-bye for good. They sure were fun while they lasted, though. (news.com)

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After over six years of taking advantage of their models protecting alt girls from the evils of the porn industry, Suicide Girls has finally announced an end to their exclusive contracts. Which is a good thing, too — at the rate SG adds new talent to its roster, it wouldn't be long until they'd completely monopolized the market. Oh, wait ... (community.livejournal.com; thumbnail via Lithium Picnic)

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sex culture

The End Of Alt: A Memoir


I discovered altporn when I was eighteen, and in quick succession went on to become a model and producer and, eventually, a retiree. So I found myself fascinated by a recent edition of Eye Weekly's "Love Bites" column in which an aspiring altporn model writes in to ask for advice on online porn sites. How can she flash her tits for cash without selling her soul to some evil SuicideGirls-style company? The short answer: she can't. Getting naked online is a business; the market is oversaturated with hot young girls looking to cash in; and DIY style doesn't always guarantee a progressive and respectful attitude towards models.

As a veteran of altporn, this makes me cringe; but as a veteran of altporn, I also know she's right.

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11:57 AM on Thu Mar 13 2008
By Lux Nightmare
22,877 views, 33 comments

Latest by lazerbunny!: just WOW. more »

We'd sleep better at night knowing that we didn't live in a world where someone was trying to make a quick buck by selling cheesy novelty celebrity sex dolls, but alas, we do not. Still, if "J-Ho" can get the porn movie treatment, we guess it's only fair. (radaronline.com)

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Sweden's state-owned Apoteket pharmacy chain announced last week that it will start selling sex toys this summer; a survey claims that most Swedes would rather buy their sexual enhancement appliances at the corner drugstore instead of at some spooky sex shop. Could we soon be looking forward to the "Sinnharness" sex swing and a full line of similar low-cost designer BDSM gear from IKEA? (reuters.com; thumbnail star Puma Swede via fleshlight.com, just because)

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business

Zivity's Big Score: Good Money After Bad?

We remain baffled by the tale of what is pretty much the only adult site to find acceptance (and cash) in the land of filthy rich web giants. You may remember us telling you about Zivity, an adult content "community" site that received a $1 million round of funding from some high-powered Silicon Valley venture capitalists. Well, seven months have gone by—an eternity in internet time—and the site has still not gone public, but we just saw the news that their benefactors have ponied up another $7 million. Good for them! Our only question is: Why?

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1:05 PM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Dashiell Bennett
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Penthouse is planning a stock market IPO in order to raise some sweet, sweet cash. Sadly, owning a piece of Penthouse does not mean that Pet of the Year Erica Ellyson has to do whatever you tell her. (xbiz.com + avn.com)

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For reasons we can't quite understand, Simon Cowell was offered $2 million to shill Viagra. For reasons we can't quite understand either, he turned the gig down. Did the deal not include a lifetime supply or something? (foxnews.com)

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passings

Remembering Paul Raymond

Any death is sad, particularly when the person who died was described in nearly all of his obituaries as the "porn king of Soho." But it wasn't until we starting reading deeper into those obituaries that we realized just how much Parl Raymond had impacted our own lives. The owner of London's raciest nightclubs and publisher of eight of the UK's top ten adult magazines, Raymond revolutionized smut in Britain, doing it dirtier than Hugh Hefner ever dreamed and in an arguably much tougher legal enviornment — and earning a personal worth of an estimated $1 billion in the process. (He also founded the magazine Club, which was pretty much the nastiest thing we'd ever seen when our innocent young eyes first caught a glimpse of it all those many years ago). Sleazy and shady in the best possible ways, we're really going to miss the guy ... and we didn't even know it.

· Paul Raymond: The Times Obituary (timesonline.co.uk)
· Paul Raymond (publisher) (Wikipedia)
· Club Online (clubonline.com)

1:37 PM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By Dashiell Bennett
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hype

The New Porn.com: When Bad Things Happen To Good Domains

Aside from half a one bedroom condo on the Upper East Side or a few pounds of imported prosciutto at Balducci's, what else can you buy for $9 million these days? Well, if you're a global internet porn conglomerate you could have purchased the domain name porn.com for that tidy sum just last year. Of course, the bigger question is: What would you have done with it once you got it? About nine months have passed since that historic transaction and now we have at least one answer, as the new and (maybe?) improved Porn.com relaunched itself as the self-styled "World's Biggest Porn Site" this week. More »

3:02 PM on Tue Feb 26 2008
By Dashiell Bennett
6,488 views, 2 comments

Latest by Fleshbot: @hblogger: Are you seriously suggesting you don't work for Porn.com? more »

So how much money does New York magazine stand to make by convincing Lindsay Lohan to take her bra off? How much do we stand to make by constantly bringing it up again? On second thought, forget we said anything. (forbes.com - thanks Sanj)

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