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Old 04-02-2009, 11:19 PM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Cherry7 View Post
I have a problem in these discussions because the words I use just seem to mean other things to other people.

So I feel I have to take another tack to explain. Do you understand modern abstract painting? Do you understand modern classical music? No. Not many people do. They just don't get it.

That is how I feel about porn. It has a following of users who have learnt to wank to increasingly wierd portrayals of some things related to sex.

I remember being shown an award winning piece of porn with four guy jerking off with a big tited porn star in the middle. And I looked at this like I would an obscure abstract work of art. It was as exciting as cold porridge on a rainy day.

I would say that there is a massive audience who desire erotic material but find porn a turn off.

Porn photography is at the level of Police photography, or X ray photography. "High quality" means the guy put a light on. "HiDef" means lower quality than DVD. Teen means under 30 etc...

The porn sex act itself is not erotic if it is 1)she blows him 2) He fucks her for 20 minutes in boring mech fashion with the regulation 3 positions 3) humilate girl with spunk in face.

Why would this be a turn on for 90% of the people? And the people who do like it 1) don't have CC cards and have it for free on the tubes.

The internet is turning quickly into a delivery system for High quality video..... If we move from quantity to quality ....There is a future
Great post.

The problem is not enough people understand the product they're selling. They think of it as stacking shelves. If you put up enough sites and send enough traffic they will buy. Some still think the key is sending traffic, but ignore the cost/profit ratio of that traffic. Or see it and don't have an answer. Some will buy once maybe twice and a few will buy over and over again. But the problem today is not enough buy enough to make the returns good.

Some think you can make better porn using a HD camera, you can't. You just make it clearer. Some think you can fool a teen niche buyer think a 30 year old is a teen, you can't but you can make some affiliates think it. Like they think HD is better. And there is your problem, not enough of the sellers understand the product.

Watching the sex act, is only erotic if you fantasize you're in there. Lots of porn produced today does not have this fantasy. It's purely to be watched, not involving the viewer. Another girl on another sofa doing the same thing she does in 5 or 50 other scenes. Porn for sale needs to go further than that.

And if it doesn't it's no different from 500 over scenes on bluetube ot tube6.
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