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Cyber Fucker 03-31-2018 06:36 AM

I'm happy for you Paul. It's not easy to find the one. You are very lucky. Congratulations to both of you! :thumbsup

Paul Markham 04-11-2018 04:40 AM

At the end of 6 weeks, Eva returned to Czech and I thought she was gone for good. :(

Then over Xmas my brother and I were out shopping, when we returned to his home my Mother said there was some strange Swedish girl trying to phone me. I asked if she was Czech and me Mum said something to the effect of who knows. I waited by the phone and it was Eva. My brother and mum lived in OC California and the phone call must have cost her a fortune!!

We then met up for the Adult Show in Brussels and Eva promised to find me some girls to shoot in Prague ASAP. The trip went well, shot two girls solo and girl/girl soft. Then a few months later she came back to the UK and we brought a girl over from Czech to shoot in London. Then progressed to travelling to Czech by car and doing casting and shoots in hotel rooms. With three small lights, minimal make-up, bad location it was clear the quality and quantity of girls were amazing. Everything I shot was sold straight away UK, US and Holland. So three months after we married we moved to Czech.

Paul Markham 09-07-2020 09:13 AM

Time to bump this thread so people can see what a great time we had.

AutumnBH 09-12-2020 03:43 AM

This is one of the most interesting threads I've ever read on GFY. Thank you Paul.

I've been making a living from adult for 20 years but only ever on the traffic side. It's fascinating to hear how the content side evolved from someone who has really been in the trenches. You sold your first set before I was born.

Please keep writing! :thumbsup

Paul Markham 09-12-2020 06:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AutumnBH (Post 22733210)
This is one of the most interesting threads I've ever read on GFY. Thank you Paul.

I've been making a living from adult for 20 years but only ever on the traffic side. It's fascinating to hear how the content side evolved from someone who has really been in the trenches. You sold your first set before I was born.

Please keep writing! :thumbsup

I can do little else these days. https://gfy.com/fucking-around-and-b...ch-future.html

selena 09-14-2020 06:36 PM

This was a great read!

Thanks for putting it together, Paul.

Look Chang 09-14-2020 07:09 PM

Well done Paul and, above all, thank you for the frankness of this fascinating story about producing adult content. This activity is very rarely described with such sincerity. :thumbsup

Paul Markham 09-15-2020 03:10 AM

I've seen the business go from respecting the product, the people who bought it to a business that's main concern is driving traffic to sell ad space.

A business where I sold sample tapes in there 1,000s for $8 to one where there's more on a major tube that any pornsite.

Paul Markham 09-15-2020 04:21 AM

Eva had returned, we had fallen deeper in love and I proposed. We married less than a year of meeting. My pals inthe business thought Eva had done it to get a Visa, I had done it for the sex. My family thought I was making another mistake. Eva was my third wife. I did get nervous on the big day. We moved to Czech less than 3 months later. 20+ years later we're still in love.

Back to creating porn.

We had good contacts for finding models in Brno, so chose there over Prague. We advertised in the local and national papers with something like this.

Earn 10,000 CZK a day
Professional photographer seeks attractive
girls to pose nude for men's magazines.
No publication in Czech
Phone 603 ### ###

The phone rang about three times a day and nearly all the girls turned up. The response was amazing. Anyone who knows Czech girls knows the quality was high much higher than the UK.

What I couldn't get was their reluctance to do GG or use vibrators. Eva would show them what fun vibrators were but couldn't get many to do GG. Also I quickly learnt that people in poorer countries are less willing to be bought. In London the pressures to earn money are everywhere, in Czech 1999 there was no such pressure. So girls would onlydo what they wanted and couldn't be persuaded with more cash.

It's changed 20 plus years later.

I immediately realised the girls we were finding were great for magazines and crap for video, unless they were already doing it. The girls were more fun, sexier, better looking and reliable, in that they turned up.

As the only money in video those days was in Hardcore porn we set about shooting sets at a phenomenal rate. Models, M/U, film, location, etc costs about $500 to $1,000 a day so shooting 20 sets a month, with 6 months before payment (if accepted) soon put pressure on our accounts. But the minimum we could earn on a set was $1,000 and the maximum $8,000, with first rights in the US and UK and various European countries and some sales in AU or Japan. Then second rights.

I had a great relationship with my bank manager who allowed me an overdraft so we could continue working. Soon magazines like Escort, Razzle, Fiesta, New Talent, etc soon were full of my sets. Editors liked the fresh girls, never to be repeated models, smiling faces we were getting. America followed afterwards, more magazines, longer publication time.

And by now I knew every pose the magazines and readers wanted for the different publications.

sabelarsene 09-16-2020 01:27 AM

Make more
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul Markham (Post 20825453)
What made you think it started only 15 years ago?

Yes, today I'm happily retired. Living out my life in a house I own, zero debts and saving more money than I spend. About to come into a $50,000 annuity around August. WTF will I do with it?

http://www.zastavki.com/pictures/ori...ad_054129_.jpg

Make More?

ANAL PASTE 09-16-2020 01:35 AM

kinda sad that after all these years you only accumulated 50K and house in Czech Rep.

Paul Markham 09-16-2020 02:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ANAL PASTE (Post 22736168)
kinda sad that after all these years you only accumulated 50K and house in Czech Rep.

For those too stupid to read or those that English isn't a first language. I have a lot more than 50K it was an extra 50k.

Maybe one day you will be able to retire and live comfortably.

Paul Markham 09-16-2020 03:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sabelarsene (Post 22736165)
Make More?

By doing what?

By doing what you're doing? That's a sure fire way to lose money.

By doing it right? Finding a pretty girl who speaks good English, shooting the right content of her both promo and content to sell, driving my own traffic, etc. That could make us 6 figures a year. I don't need it, too ill to do it and the desire to work has gone. I'm 70 years old and have been retired for over ten years now.

Paul Markham 09-17-2020 02:41 AM

It wasn't just the quality of Czech girls that impressed me and made us move here. It was the quantity.

Within the first year we had found and shot over ten times what we could of achieved in London.

https://i.ibb.co/0Kh448v/0644.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/3dfqT06/0643.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/cQdGKZx/0630.jpg

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https://i.ibb.co/T8KVGvR/0398.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/MVPSLT4/0330.jpg

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https://i.ibb.co/G98Q4n2/0749.jpg

Paul Markham 09-17-2020 02:59 AM

And even more came our way the next year.

https://i.ibb.co/30zRbC6/0745.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/5TSqXwF/0740.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/Dr6ybJH/0728-1.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/9gQGmrG/0718.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/ZxBDxyJ/0709.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/170wnhS/0707.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/T1VxJrK/0706.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/f94C3Bt/0690.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/TPrrRWP/0646.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/02ksK5n/0672.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/3psJqxw/0758-066.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/BPnpHzz/0757-007.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/qNgpd7p/0752.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/Lxz6spX/0755.jpg

This is just the tip of the iceberg of what we did in the years before moving to the studio. All of the work sold to magazines and later online.

ANAL PASTE 09-17-2020 11:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul Markham (Post 22736177)
For those too stupid to read or those that English isn't a first language. I have a lot more than 50K it was an extra 50k.

Maybe one day you will be able to retire and live comfortably.

I have 2 houses in California and Washington, Paul. We also have condo where my son goes to school. Other 2 kids go to private school. Please stop with you Alzheimer outbursts.

Paul Markham 09-18-2020 03:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ANAL PASTE (Post 22737396)
I have 2 houses in California and Washington, Paul. We also have condo where my son goes to school. Other 2 kids go to private school. Please stop with you Alzheimer outbursts.

Of course you do. You said it on the Internet so it must be true. :Oh crap

namehunter 07-26-2024 01:38 PM

No posts on this thread for almost 4 years.
Bump for a master pornographer whose work I am very familiar with.
Really enjoyed the BTS
Thanks


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