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Top 5 Reasons Porn-for-Profit Is Dying
Why is the adult film business in dire straits? Sasha Grey and other stars answered The Daily Beast?s question this weekend at the porn industry?s annual convention in Las Vegas.
Every January, the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas is the biggest annual gathering of the adult film industry. But the biggest is suddenly a lot smaller. The 2010 AEE convention, which ran Thursday through Sunday, had shrunk from packing two floors of the Venetian?s Sands Expo Center last year down to one floor (and that one with lots of empty space).
?The AEE show is an example of what the business faces. There are fewer fans, less foot traffic, and less companies exhibiting,? said Steve Javors, editor in chief of industry trade publication XBIZ. ?During the 2000s, porn kept expanding outward. We thought there was an insatiable appetite for porn, and there would keep being more companies and more porn stars. Now, we are finding out that is not true.?
?People used to be ashamed to say their girlfriends did porn. That is gone. Anyone can afford a Web site now,? said Pete Housley, who aggregates porn on Twitter.
As for the concurrent, AVN Awards?AVN being another adult industry trade publication?which the porn world bills as their Oscars, it moved from the arena-size Mandalay Bay Events Center to the few-thousand-seats theater at The Palms. AVN head Paul Fishbein sounded like he was echoing the words of Spinal Tap?s manager when he described the venue switch as not so much to a smaller space, but one more ?selective and intimate.?
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1. Piracy.
According to porn star Dana DeArmond: ?If people don?t realize it is stealing and start paying for their porn then performers are going to stop performing.?
Among the acts DeArmond performs (solo or in group sex with men and/or women) are anal sex and double penetration. ?I don?t think people are just going to do what porn stars do for free and put it on the Internet,? she said.
?It is stealing, and unfortunately it is hitting the adult industry hard right now,? said Sasha Grey, the current porn It Girl.
According to XBIZ?s Javors, thanks to illegal downloading and ?Tube? sites like YouPorn, sales of porn?s most profitable product, DVDs, have taken a huge hit this past year. Javors said: ?Piracy is the biggest single factor contributing to the economic malaise we are in. How can you compete with free??
Dan O?Connell, president of Girlfriends Films, explained how his company has been among the few to claim an increase in DVD sales from 2009. ?We?ve been able to grow our DVD sales, because we have been aggressive going after piracy. In the past eight months, we have taken down 17,000 pirated videos of ours by just sending out letters warning them that we will sue.?
But Girlfriends Films is just one company that averages about five movies a month. And even Grey does not see DVDs sticking around much longer. ?I think DVDs are going to be a collectors? medium like vinyl,? she said.
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