What would you like to see more in porn? Be it either for personal consumption or if someone put you in charge of the Ministry of Pornography today and gave you unlimited resources, what would you encourage, or what would you enable people to do?
For personal consumption, more lesbian/wlw films that aren't made *for men*!! Most of the films in that category are for a male audience and feel very obviously fake/lacking intimacy. So yeah wlw films with passion or creativity behind them, made by and for queer women.
With unlimited resources- difficult question! I'd probably start by making 3 feature length erotic films hahaha, or at the very least one.
More widely I'd maybe start a porn site? There are a few clip sites around now that allow performers to upload their work, but the majoirty seem to care very little for the creators working on the site, have poor support, take way to high a cut of earnings, and generally speaking don't actually care about what's posted on their sites at all. I think a clip site that takes a lower % but tries to positviely impact the direction of the industry (while also having paying traffic!) is very much needed - but then again maybe people would be annoyed at it being more niche? There's probably a fine line between 'we could do with WAY more XYZ and less YZX' and people feeling that certain expressions of sexuality would be being ignored as a result of that.
Although I will say sites/companies like Beautiful Agony have very strict requirments when it comes to submission content/vibe and seem to be doing just fine, so who knows!
Even more widely, lobby Visa and Mastercard to knock off their ridiculous religious issues with the porn industry and start working with adult sites properly again. There are so few ways for us to be paid because these credit card companies are always making up new issues, meanwhile industires with a *far* worse track record than porn are free to take payments. Also I'd figure out what's going on with verification laws (for customers), how safe the sites that require ID verification of customers are, etc etc. There's lots that could be improved both big and small scale with truly unlimited resources!
Also -- I think that (other than giving higher payouts!) the main thing clip sites need to improve is individualized content filtering and recommendation. As a creator, you should be able to create multiple personas for different kinds of content you like to make, and tag those personas as well as individual videos. Customers would get a quiz about preferences, ranging from "I absolutely love this" to "never ever show me that this even exists". That way, everyone gets to select their own values of XYZ and YZX.
It's win-win: it'd be easier to find not just an audience, but the right audience for you; and I think more guys would be interested in paying if browsing for porn didn't mean learning to mentally block out turn-offs (and worse) that routinely pop up in search results to ruin the mood.
Haha I would love a 'never ever show me that' button! I can think of one site that allows for multiple persons/accounts to be easily linked, but most sites don't offer it. I agree though, most places are severely lacking in filtering, search results, and categories! I guess they get lazy on the coding :S
If I had an imaginary amount of money, I'd start a worker-owned clip and streaming site, where individual creators get a stake and a corresponding share of any profits. Maybe more shares based on popularity of content, but capped so even smaller creators get a meaningful voice. Creators would see the finances, and decide what to do with any profits.
My guess is sites like MV are doing pretty well for their investors/owners, but less so than most creators assume when looking at the cut they take.
Bandwidth isn't free, and streaming is bandwidth-intensive. Credit card fees are probably quite high, and they have to absorb a lot of chargebacks. I expect they have huge liability insurance costs too.
Plus IT costs and software development... they're clearly not spending as much as they should in this area since stuff is broken all the time.
The global economy makes it hard for creators from anywhere with a high cost of living (and high living standards). There are a lot of beautiful, smart, creative women in South American countries where cost of living is a tenth what it is in the US or Europe. How can that be made fair?
What would you like to see more in porn? Be it either for personal consumption or if someone put you in charge of the Ministry of Pornography today and gave you unlimited resources, what would you encourage, or what would you enable people to do?
For personal consumption, more lesbian/wlw films that aren't made *for men*!! Most of the films in that category are for a male audience and feel very obviously fake/lacking intimacy. So yeah wlw films with passion or creativity behind them, made by and for queer women.
With unlimited resources- difficult question! I'd probably start by making 3 feature length erotic films hahaha, or at the very least one.
More widely I'd maybe start a porn site? There are a few clip sites around now that allow performers to upload their work, but the majoirty seem to care very little for the creators working on the site, have poor support, take way to high a cut of earnings, and generally speaking don't actually care about what's posted on their sites at all. I think a clip site that takes a lower % but tries to positviely impact the direction of the industry (while also having paying traffic!) is very much needed - but then again maybe people would be annoyed at it being more niche? There's probably a fine line between 'we could do with WAY more XYZ and less YZX' and people feeling that certain expressions of sexuality would be being ignored as a result of that.
Although I will say sites/companies like Beautiful Agony have very strict requirments when it comes to submission content/vibe and seem to be doing just fine, so who knows!
Even more widely, lobby Visa and Mastercard to knock off their ridiculous religious issues with the porn industry and start working with adult sites properly again. There are so few ways for us to be paid because these credit card companies are always making up new issues, meanwhile industires with a *far* worse track record than porn are free to take payments. Also I'd figure out what's going on with verification laws (for customers), how safe the sites that require ID verification of customers are, etc etc. There's lots that could be improved both big and small scale with truly unlimited resources!
Also -- I think that (other than giving higher payouts!) the main thing clip sites need to improve is individualized content filtering and recommendation. As a creator, you should be able to create multiple personas for different kinds of content you like to make, and tag those personas as well as individual videos. Customers would get a quiz about preferences, ranging from "I absolutely love this" to "never ever show me that this even exists". That way, everyone gets to select their own values of XYZ and YZX.
It's win-win: it'd be easier to find not just an audience, but the right audience for you; and I think more guys would be interested in paying if browsing for porn didn't mean learning to mentally block out turn-offs (and worse) that routinely pop up in search results to ruin the mood.
Haha I would love a 'never ever show me that' button! I can think of one site that allows for multiple persons/accounts to be easily linked, but most sites don't offer it. I agree though, most places are severely lacking in filtering, search results, and categories! I guess they get lazy on the coding :S
If I had an imaginary amount of money, I'd start a worker-owned clip and streaming site, where individual creators get a stake and a corresponding share of any profits. Maybe more shares based on popularity of content, but capped so even smaller creators get a meaningful voice. Creators would see the finances, and decide what to do with any profits.
My guess is sites like MV are doing pretty well for their investors/owners, but less so than most creators assume when looking at the cut they take.
Bandwidth isn't free, and streaming is bandwidth-intensive. Credit card fees are probably quite high, and they have to absorb a lot of chargebacks. I expect they have huge liability insurance costs too.
Plus IT costs and software development... they're clearly not spending as much as they should in this area since stuff is broken all the time.
Another somewhat-related thought...
The global economy makes it hard for creators from anywhere with a high cost of living (and high living standards). There are a lot of beautiful, smart, creative women in South American countries where cost of living is a tenth what it is in the US or Europe. How can that be made fair?