{"id":543,"date":"2007-10-16T18:39:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T08:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/16\/free-porn-and-great-manicures-darling\/"},"modified":"2007-10-16T18:39:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T08:39:51","slug":"free-porn-and-great-manicures-darling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/16\/free-porn-and-great-manicures-darling\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Porn And Great Manicures, Darling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portfolio.com<\/a> has a long article about the changing face of the porn industry, focusing particularly on YouPorn and the fact that it’s giving away free porn and not making any money, even though the owners want $20 million for it.<\/p>\n

The article has a few paragraphs about the emergence of women as consumers of porn, and in the interests of posterity I’m just going to cut and paste them (the article is 7 pages long, I figured it would be easier to post it here).<\/p>\n

(Penthouse’s Kelly) Holland, a veteran in the growing ranks of female directors, believes women\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand the men who want to watch with them\u00e2\u20ac\u201dare customers she won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t lose to online viewing. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Women are more reliable, they are more loyal, and they spend more money,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she says. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153For women, you have to make sure the girls have great manicures, great pedicures, and great lingerie\u00e2\u20ac\u201dput them in La Perla or Agent Provocateur\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand you can serve up some pretty explicit material.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Holland cites HBO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new sexually explicit miniseries Tell Me You Love Me as evidence of just how mainstream pornography has become.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just a man thing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d agrees Samantha Lewis, the C.E.O. of Digital Playground, who estimates that 45 percent of her Web-based sales (which include site subscriptions and DVDs sold online) are to women. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153As each year goes by, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re realizing, Oh my goodness. The percentages are climbing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The porn industry has long wanted to expand its female audience, but some producers concede it will take more than fancy sets, gauzy lighting, and a story line. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Women are just as unpredictable as men, only more so,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Phil Harvey, the 69-year-old Harvard grad who 35 years ago founded Adam & Eve, a $90 million adult-film producer and sex-toy retailer based in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Harvey is a pioneer in marketing toys and videos to women and couples, having instituted a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sex positive\u00e2\u20ac\u009d approach to pornographic retailing in the late 1980s. But as important as women are to Adam & Eve\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s business\u00e2\u20ac\u201dHarvey says 40 percent of its Web customers are female\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhe cautions against overgeneralizing. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153At least five times we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve tried to produce a women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s catalog, with cuddling and coupling,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he says drily. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t work.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have to laugh at Kelly Holland’s idea of what makes porn palatable to women: nice nails and lingerie. As if we’ll put up with all the usual misogynist shit just because the woman has French tips.<\/p>\n

The other thing is that the people at Adam and Eve still don’t seem to understand the women’s market, and they’re the ones who distribute Candida Royalle’s films. “Cuddling and coupling” is great, but what about making movies that deviate from the standard porn cliches?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Portfolio.com has a long article about the changing face of the porn industry, focusing particularly on YouPorn and the fact that it’s giving away free porn and not making any money, even though the owners want $20 million for it. The article has a few paragraphs about the emergence of women as consumers of porn, and in the interests of posterity I’m just going to cut and paste them (the Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-porn","category-pornforwomen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}