Porn Valley Dispatch: Meet the ‘Peeps

Tired of competing with high schoolers to sexually express yourself online? Charlotte-based xPeeps is the adult alternative to MySpace, where hotties from Ohio currently share bandwidth with insurance company spammers to grab a fistful of the genital-baring online community market. Read more after the gap. - G. Ponante

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"We want to put adult fans together with performers and companies," said Jerry Anders, director of sales and marketing for North Carolina's VOD company AEBN. "And so we've created a place where people can really put it out there."

Anders is referring to xPeeps, which is now six weeks old and sporting a membership of over 26,000 people who post nude pictures (a MySpace no-no) and hook up and ogle fellow posters, as well as canoodle with adult stars like Vanilla DeVille.

While xPeeps has the terabyte-pushing AEBN as a backend (and is loosely moderated by AEBN's in-house blogger, Scott McGowan), the site has the feel of a startup with potential.

While it is refreshing to be free of the restrictions of MySpace while experiencing a very similar user interface, xPeeps does share some of the downsides that make MySpace laborious, such as comment spam from car insurance companies and the ubiquity of people using wallpaper that matches their text color. The latter problem (for both sites) should have been obliterated in 1997.

"We knew it would be big, but we weren't prepared for the expansion," said AEBN Traffic Director Jeff Beer, who just ordered several weapons-grade servers to accommodate the scores of guys showing their willies and musing about how to get in the industry. (Just like in real life, Anders says there will soon be a VIP area for "verified" adult stars.)

In the meantime, check out the traffic-generating sexosphere and wonder yet again how mooning the photocopier just doesn't cut it like it used to.

· xPeeps (xpeeps.com)
· Thumbnail: Kristin (profile @ xpeeps.com)

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