This argument goes around in circles because if you are a TGP owner, your customers are inevitably "freeloaders" - people looking for free porn and coming to your site to find it.
If you hate freeloaders, then you send them off to a blind-linked trade so you can get some traffic back. But why do you want another site's traffic, if it's just going to be more freeloaders?
Someone said "if the surfer doesn't buy in 2-3 clicks, they're not going to buy." I don't think that's true, maybe the surfer just hasn't found what he's looking for yet. Most TGP owners don't list 100% of their own galleries, so WTF do they care if the surfer clicks all the links on their page?
I think the whole free site universe would be better off if they listed 10-20 of their OWN galleries (or sponsor-hosted galleries) and had 100+ non-blind links to similar trade sites.
