A threat bigger than tubes and shady billing combined?

[SteveLightspeed]

Whenever I wonder what I can do to increase sales, I pay more attention to my own porn surfing habits. I figure, I'm a regular guy, and I probably have the same surfing habits as other regular guys, right?

But I don't surf tube sites, and I've never been burned by shady billing practices.

But there is something now that I've never been able to do before: I CAN SURF MY OWN COLLECTION.

Over the years, I've collected hundreds of gigs of porn from paysites, freesites, newsgroups, and trading with friends. And get this: it is ALL stuff I like. I don't have to SEARCH, I don't have to worry about viruses or spyware, and I don't have to pay anything to view it. And it is all VERY personalized!

I just bought a 1.5 TERABYTE external harddrive for $179. I can put 10 years of collected, personalized content all in ONE PLACE. And I can spend WEEKS surfing it all, find mostly content I've completely forgotten about, and never see the same thing twice!

When money is tight, I'm not going to bother with ANYTHING online. I have the ultimate collection already instantly available to me. But massive storage didn't exist 10 years ago, and I think that's why we all made more money THEN.

I believe MASSIVE PERSONAL STORAGE SPACE has hurt our business more than tubes and shady billing practices combined.

Comments?

[d-null]

you have a good point, but guys are always on the lookout for something new, and as time goes by there are always fresh new 18 and 19 and 20 year old girls coming out

[Horny Dude]

Agree with d-null. I have a huge collection of stuff, but there is always something new that attracts my eye. I do try and go over my personal stash and get rid of the old shit, just cause I want to put newer stuff on there.

[SteveLightspeed]

I could show you 10 pics of "18-20" year olds, and I'd bet $500 that you couldn't tell me 8 correct that are "new or old". I've shot content that I don't even remember. If I haven't seen something in a few years, I might remember that I saw it, but if I liked it then, I still like it NOW.

[Mutt]

i think it's a factor - but I can go back to when i was a teenager and had a mountain of porn magazines and duped VHS porn tapes hidden under my bed - I always had my goto girls and scenes - i'd whack it to the same small group all the time. But I still was looking for new porn - hoping to find a new girl/scene to join the elite group. When I moved out on my own and I could actually rent porn videos cuz my family wasn't around I would go into the porn video store and rent 5 videos - i'd fast forward through them looking for the girl/scene on the cover I wanted to see - out of 5 videos I might find one or two scenes i wanted to keep and might make the elite goto porn group. Sometimes after a few viewings i'd realize it wasn't worthy.

and today i am the same way, i have about 20 scenes on my computer, that's all. I only acquire more porn hoping to find an addition to the elite group.

i consider myself average surfer too and that's the counter argument, I think guys are always going to want to find something new to add to their arsenal even when they have amassed a huge collection.

Pierre Woodman for the win!!!

[SteveLightspeed]

i think it's a factor - but I can go back to when i was a teenager and had a mountain of porn magazines and duped VHS porn tapes hidden under my bed - I always had my goto girls and scenes - i'd whack it to the same small group all the time. But I still was looking for new porn - hoping to find a new girl/scene to join the elite group. When I moved out on my own and I could actually rent porn videos cuz my family wasn't around I would go into the porn video store and rent 5 videos - i'd fast forward through them looking for the girl/scene on the cover I wanted to see - out of 5 videos I might find one or two scenes i wanted to keep and might make the elite goto porn group. Sometimes after a few viewings i'd realize it wasn't worthy.

and today i am the same way, i have about 20 scenes on my computer, that's all. I only acquire more porn hoping to find an addition to the elite group.

i consider myself average surfer too and that's the counter argument, I think guys are always going to want to find something new to add to their arsenal even when they have amassed a huge collection.

Pierre Woodman for the win!!!

Maybe this is about AGE? Cuz I don't remember jack shit. But I know what I like, every time I see it.

[d-null]

I could show you 10 pics of "18-20" year olds, and I'd bet $500 that you couldn't tell me 8 correct that are "new or old". I've shot content that I don't even remember. If I haven't seen something in a few years, I might remember that I saw it, but if I liked it then, I still like it NOW.

sure, I guess if a guy gets a big enough collection he will always be able to find something that seems new, but there is still alot to be said for a surfer "getting the hots" for a specific girl he comes across on the net, and it doesn't matter if he has a terabyte of porn of 10,000 other girls on his hard drives already, he is horny for the new girl and wants to see more of her.

[epitome]

If people were happy with the same thing when it comes to sex, there would be no such thing as cheating.

[d-null]

and to add to Mutt's "go to girl" concept, a guy will always be on the lookout for new stuff or stuff he hasn't seen before from his favorite girl

[Iron Fist]

Man although I agree, i've got terabytes of content from sites from years of collecting.... and I'm always looking for more...

Thing is Steve... 90% of the net is filler content... it's that magic 10% where the girl, scene, props, clothes, picture, lighting, attitude and everything is just right...

You know.. the one picture where I can stare at it for like 15 minutes and get a boner in 2 seconds.

Porn videos where the girl actually looks like she ISN'T do it for money.

Girls in the pictures who look at me instead of at the camera...

Not a lot of content out there like it. The ones who "get it", well they know who they are.. which is why I still go online and check my favorite haunts to see if it's out there...

[mynameisjim]

I'd say that is true for some surfers.

Personally, I almost never look at porn twice. I may be biased because I also never listen to an album again after the first week or two I like it. I also never watch movies twice.

But generally speaking, porn is a consumable. You jerk off to it once or twice then move on. I think some of the older surfers who grew up on a few magazines and one or two VHS tapes that got traded around the neighborhood are more accustomed to the "private stash" mentality. I think newer surfers are more the churn and burn types.

[SteveLightspeed]

Man although I agree, i've got terabytes of content from sites from years of collecting.... and I'm always looking for more...

Thing is Steve... 90% of the net is filler content... it's that magic 10% where the girl, scene, props, clothes, picture, lighting, attitude and everything is just right...

You know.. the one picture where I can stare at it for like 15 minutes and get a boner in 2 seconds.

Porn videos where the girl actually looks like she ISN'T do it for money.

Girls in the pictures who look at me instead of at the camera...

Not a lot of content out there like it. The ones who "get it", well they know who they are.. which is why I still go online and check my favorite haunts to see if it's out there...

Why collect if you never look at it again? Would you pay for something new before you looked at your old collection?

[Danielle]

That can explain surfers that have been online for years collecting porn.

But, new people come online every day. So every day we have new prospective customers coming online for the very first time. They don't have a huge porn collection yet.

Hugs,
Danielle

[SteveLightspeed]

That can explain surfers that have been online for years collecting porn.

But, new people come online every day. So every day we have new prospective customers coming online for the very first time. They don't have a huge porn collection yet.

Hugs,
Danielle

I've never met a woman that collects porn.

[Mutt]

all i know is find Pierre Woodman's old casting session videos - most are from 2002-2003 - no fake reality shit like Bangbros etc - a half suave half creepy bald hairy French porn director casting new girls in hotel rooms in Czech, Russia and Hungary and banging the shit out of them. i was gonna join his paysite to get them all but unfortunately for him I found them all on one tube site. one day out of guilt i'll join his site for a month.