The very first For The Girls tour from June 2003
You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‘See if you can blow this out.’ – Jerry Seinfeld
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing ‘Happy Birthday.’ – Steven Wright
Way back in May 2003, when everything was in black and white, a friend and I got together over drinks and decided to make our very own porn for women paysite. We combined our content, put together a bunch of hand-edited html pages, made a tour and bam! ForTheGirls.com was born. We launched it on June 1, 2003 and we hoped it might make a few sales here and there.
I don’t think either of us would have thought that For The Girls would still be going ten years later, nor that it would become one of the largest and most successful adult sites for women on the web. We’ve had plenty of hurdles over the last decade – including the massive rise of piracy and tube sites – but we’re still going strong.
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The mainstream porn industry has tried over the years to cater to women with mixed success. Meanwhile, FTG continues on. I think the site has done well because we are independent and because we have always just wanted to offer porn that we ourselves would like to see. Clearly there were (and are) a lot of straight women who want the same thing.
In 2013 I often see people saying “porn for women” is a phrase that shouldn’t be used, that it’s stereotypical, that it’s all just cliched soft focus, that women don’t all like the same thing. But ten years ago when FTG started, “porn for women” was still a new thing and there was very little of it to be had. So many industry people still denied that women even liked porn. For us, “porn for women” meant “porn that acknowledges a female audience, porn that is different from 99% of the stuff that’s out there”. We proudly showed erect cocks and we reveled in looking at naked men.
We were part of a revolution, part of a slow change in the porn landscape that means today, women have a hell of a lot more choice than they used to. “Porn for women” may not be the right term to use anymore but it’s how we identified ourselves at the start and it’s a big part of who we are.
In any case, happy birthday to For The Girls. Now where’s my cake?
(I made this graphic way back in 2004 for our first birthday)