10 Ways The Adult Movie Industry Can Save Itself From Premature Extinction
Posted by: Susannah Breslin Filed in: galleries, sex, video
12:20PM, Tuesday September 15th 2009
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In case you haven’t heard, the adult movie industry is in trouble. Battered by a perfect storm of problems in recent years—online content pirating, a series of federal obscenity indictments, two HIV outbreaks—the global recession has threatened to push the San Fernando Valley-based X-rated video industry into its death throes. These days, already strapped consumers don’t feel the need to buy what they can get online for free. Consequently, Porn Valley profits have dropped by an estimated 30 to 50 percent, adult production companies are going under left and right, and porn starlets and woodsmen alike are working for less and less often. Who killed porn? As one director put it to me, “Pandora’s box has been opened. The Internet did that.” Now, there’s no going back. So, what’s the jizz biz to do? Here are 10 ways the porn industry can save itself from becoming one more casualty of the economic apocalypse.
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Squidtermz
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 11:24 am: [report]
Good call on the Augmented Reality! TOPPS already has baseball cards using this. And theyre interactive too… much like that BMW clip. Very interesting stuff. It’s only a matter of time before you get some crazy porn goin on in that.
CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 11:29 am: [report]
I’m gonna keep stealing mine, thank-you-very-much.
Shriekback68
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 11:33 am: [report]
Most of these seem like pretty dumb suggestions (AI, really??).
Humble Bee
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 12:02 pm: [report]
Woooo! Shout out to the SF VAlley! I went to school there! I’m just so proud…
I agree with CheeeEEEEse they better do somethin’! Cause I just download or Share with my friend Ryan. lol. He once made a CD that had 4gb worth of porn. I was like wtf.. thanks, i guess. Then he said, Oh yeah your welcome, it’s kind of special. It has clips of all my favorites… Then I felt like returning it..
CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 12:15 pm: [report]
@Humble: 4 gigabytes? That’s nothing. I’ve got around 800.
effing hickster
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 12:16 pm: [report]
@Humble Bee: I hope it wasn’t sticky.
magenta generation
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 12:18 pm: [report]
“The Operation,” looks sweet. I’m going to see where I can find this movie. The rest of the suggestions, eh IDK, I’m not really into pron that much these days but the Iphone apps sounds like an idea even pron on cell phones. Who knows what the future will bring?
retro chic
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 12:28 pm: [report]
Chatsworth (SFV) is ground-zero
where most of these are made,
buried in quiet suburban enclaves
whose neighbors are sometimes
none-the-wiser. The larger
studios are in the adjacent
industrial area. Declining
property values have taken
away flush equity/credit lines
to fund these films; so it’s not
just the Internet issues.
Also, they have a problem regulating
themselves for workers’ health
issues. Legal fees and policies
are just too expensive anymore.
The CEOs/staff attend PTA and city-council
meetings so it’s all out there.
40yrolddad
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 01:05 pm: [report]
CG has many advantages:
1. “actors” could work anonymously - just get reference shots in wire-frame suits & you can throw whatever skin(s) you want on top of them.
2. completely eliminates the STD problem (I’m assuming the “money” references would be shot w/props).
3. marginal costs of new content is extremely LOW (of course the flip side of that is a fair bit of capital upfront).
I picture a “base game” (think Guitar Hero/Rock Band) for which you could download & customize vignettes (redhead w/“x” measurements on a Gulfstream, blond “nurse naughty”, etc). you could even (/should) make it interactive (again, GHWT/RB-ish) where you control the characters - imagine what you could do w/a Wii Fit?
now who’s going to be the 1st to tell me: “CONGRATULATIONS! you’ve just invented 2nd life!!!”
ChoJinn
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 01:51 pm: [report]
I blame unenforced copyright laws and the exploding popularity of amateur material. Stealing the stuff is just too easy, and the fact that it’s porno removes any of the guilt that might exist. Everything now is gonzo, and the staggering amount of women in the industry (really, they probably make up a non-insignificant part of the nation’s population; 0.5% or something?) has diluted the product far below the average video’s price point.
Humble Bee
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 01:55 pm: [report]
@CheeeEEESe on one CD??? That can’t be possible..
@Effing Hickster, it wasn’t sticky, it was actually in really good condition. I was just praying no one would ask us what it was because he gave it to me at work. lol. I’d be like, um, a bootleg of a movie..
@40yrolddad
I have wii fit, you just point at things and balance on the board.. You could maybe slap her ass, make her jump around, but I’d rather watch porn if that’s the case.
oh and true story people.
I went to school in sf right, I had P.E with this girl & she wans’t loud or boistrous just your typical cute quiet asian, and after we graduated I found out she’s a harcore porn star, her name is Tia Tinaka now. Before her, I met Laura Li (or Lora Li) but her real name was Diana. She looked so innocent until she said, have you ever had a guy stick his toe in you? I was like no and I’m having lunch over there now…
CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 02:06 pm: [report]
@Humble: No, I have a dedicated hard drive. OMG you went to HS with Tia Tanaka! Woooo! F’ing hot.
Queen Frostine
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 02:29 pm: [report]
I still support the idea of filming all the Jane Austen movies with decent actresses and adding in real hardcore sex. You’d have housewives beating down the door for more.
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a generously endowed man in possession of a good hard c**k, must be in want of some p****. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of someone or other of their very bored and desperate daughters.”
FrzKey
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 03:53 pm: [report]
Wow. Just… wow.
Y’all must not be watching much porn if these are the best ‘new’ ideas you can come up with. They’ve all been done. Absolutely every single one of them - as best as current technology will allow. Including 3D, Interactive, CGI and “movies targeted toward women.”
Done, done, done and oh yes - done and growing.
Porn is a long way from dead. A very very long way from dead. If anything it’s growing, changing and mutating in ways no one’s is entirely sure about yet. Trust me multimedia has been driven by porn since cavemen started drawing boobs on rocks. It’s not going anywhere and if there’s a new tech out that hasn’t been tried out for it’s porn readyness it’s not going to be going anywhere until every orifice of it has been probed. Thoroughly.
majicksand
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 05:04 pm: [report]
3D porn sounds cool. I’ve never seen one. My husband and I may now have plans for Saturday night if I can get the kids out of the house!
And for the record, Meg Ryan’s fake orgasm in When Harry Met Sally SUCKED! I’m fairly certain I’ve done better in my sleep. I KNOW I’ve done better awake and in front of an audience. I was challenged, and I won by unanimous decision. Yes, my hands were above the table the entire time.
effing hickster
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 05:31 pm: [report]
@Queen Frostine: Hear, hear! I could go for some Austen porn. However, casting would be extremely difficult. It would be extremely sexy to see actresses like Emma Watson in these roles, but you’d never see them willing to have sex on camera. On the flip side, most porn actresses like Bree Olsen can’t act their way out of a paper bag, and leave me wanting to shove a sock in their mouths.
@majicksand: My porn actress statement applies here as well, porn or real. Most women are too fake when they fake. It drives me nuts.
Jayd
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 06:02 pm: [report]
Most of these suggestions will entail too much finacial backing. It will probably never happen. Porn production is a low budget affair.
Porn will never truly die, but in order for some producers to stay in business, some things have to change.
Adapt 100% to the internet and mail order. The days of peddling disks through retailers in done.
Specialize: In the states and a few other locations, laws still permit extreme fetishes that are popular and have little competition. Many include staged acts that would repel many of us, but there is a large market crying out for quality proucers here.
Go mainstream: Moving Porn into the realm of Playboy and enticing many fallen or B type celbs to do pornography would no doubt be a big seller.
AChanceAtHeaven
wrote on September 15 2009 @ 08:25 pm: [report]
Needs more tentacles. Hey, it worked in Japan, right?
bearclover
wrote on September 16 2009 @ 03:43 am: [report]
why would you have to steal porn with sites like redtube? It’s free. And I totally agree with Hickster: those chicas need to back off from those over the top orgasms. I would like to see better acting, but it’s the rediculously fake orgasms that make it impossible for me to suspend reality. Oh, and how about not chopping off the guys head in almost every scene? I like to see his expression since hers doesn’t do anything for me.
yesaguy
wrote on September 16 2009 @ 06:59 am: [report]
EVERYTHING WILL CHANGE, IT ALWAYS DOES. HOPEFULY NOT TO MCUH.
majicksand
wrote on September 16 2009 @ 07:44 am: [report]
@hickster and bearclover: Yes, my fake orgasm to prove that Meg Ryan’s was garbage was ‘over the top’. Here’s the thing: it sounded (and I imagine looked) very much the same as my real ones. Sorry if that’s TMI. My point is that for some women it isn’t theatrical, it’s normal. My husband says he gets a kick out of watching me because I go absolutely nuts. Frankly it’s really hard to do it quietly when the kids are home. Again, sorry for the TMI. I just felt the need to defend the ‘no holds barred’ orgasm.
bearclover
wrote on September 16 2009 @ 10:06 am: [report]
@majicksand: no need to defend it, I’m vocal myself.
I think there’s a difference though between being vocal for 20 straight minutes without pausing on a porn video (yes, I know it’s cut and edited to make it look like one long session), and being that way for *real* during a normal length of time. Either they’re in a lot better shape than me or I’m putting too much effort into it and getting needlessly breathless. There’s also rarely any build-up to the feeling that would cause that kind of sustained, high-end vocalization - she’s moaning her heart out before he’s even got his pants all the way down.
I like a man whose not shy about letting out a few moans and groans too, but sometimes they can take it too far. When I was younger, I slept with a guy that was a lot older than me. He was so over-the-top that he couldn’t hear me asking him if he was ok. I got scared he was having a heart attack and shoved him off of me just at the crucial moment.
On the flip side, I’ve been with men who barely breathed hard too (though that’s almost understandable. Afterall, how much of a sweat can one really work up in less than two minutes?) and it was just as unenjoyable.
effing hickster
wrote on September 16 2009 @ 06:10 pm: [report]
@majicksand and bearclover: The way the porn ladies carry on, you’d think their clitoris had been re-located to their anus.
@sanfranko: The Frenchman, the Italian, and the Texan were discussing amongst themselves how to “drive a woman wild”.
The Frenchman said, “Champagne, roses, and at least two hours of foreplay. That drives a woman wild.”
The Italian said, “No, no, no. Spontaneity is the key. Whether you have her bent over the counter while cooking dinner together, or bent over the hood of your car while out on a moonlit drive in the country.”
The Texan pipes in, “Well, gents, I find what drives a woman wild is when we’re finished making love, I get up to wipe my d*** off on the curtains.”
bigred
wrote on September 17 2009 @ 03:17 pm: [report]
its crazy to think adult erotic sites like http://mpreviews.com would be so edgy!
effing hickster
wrote on September 17 2009 @ 08:10 pm: [report]
@sanfranko and bigred: Awkward marketing ploys not accepted here. Take it elsewhere, like maybe 4chan.
draymond
wrote on September 19 2009 @ 08:59 pm: [report]
I think the go hollywood route is the best. All the free amateur porn on the net, what it mostly is missing is decent acting and decent storytelling. I’m not saying cut down the sex, but there is only so many times you can see two people doing exactly the same moves in a manner that they might as well be trained circus animals, and not be tedious, particularly since the amateurs are immitating the exact same mechanical scenes.
I Luv Hunks
wrote on October 4 2009 @ 03:59 am: [report]
I agree with draymond. More glam, more high end production values, and good acting with unique plots. Although porn isn’t really my fetish, any chance i’ve had of watching it i always get the impression that the amateur stuff is in overkill mode. Kinda like how the reality tv show craze that has killed quality content on TV, amateur porn needs to be scaled down.