February 12th, 2024 -- by Bacchus
Love Sucks?
The management would like you to remember that while love may suck, the Kink.com Love Sucks sale in honor of Valentine’s Day can guarantee that your holiday needn’t suck, even if you are “temporarily embarrassed” in the having-a-sex-partner department. Abundant porn, like abundant money, cannot guarantee happiness, but as a wise observer once said, it can keep you entertained nonetheless:
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Now that kink dot com has moved out of SF, I wonder if anyone has revealed how they recruited in the old days? So many physically and sexually adventurous young women involved in a sport, dance, or outdoor activities moved through their dungeons, and it would seem like classified ads and the kink scene would not have been enough to find them all. But is that something they could talk about without a tabloid printing a story PORNOGRAPHERS STALK COLLEGE GYMNASTICS TEAM: University of California Podunk Co-Ed Reports Indecent Offer?
Vagans, that feels like a heavy innuendo you are leveling, based on your “it would seem like” intuition and no supporting evidence. I’m not sure throwing around words like “stalk” is responsible, even offered up as a hypothetical hyperbolic tabloid headline.
The reason I am pushing back on this is that to me “it seems like” this question comes from a place of hostility to sex work, incorporating the hoary old assumptions that surely these women wouldn’t do what they do/did if there wasn’t something suspicious around the circumstances of their recruitment/employment. If we want to claim that sex work is work and we support sex workers (which I do), we’ve got to be ready to credit the consent of the participants by default, except to the extent that we have actual evidence that something untoward influenced them.
For awhile I made a habit out of running ErosBlog stories that reprinted the “this is what it was like shooting for Kink.com” stories of many different performers, because I thought it was useful and interesting to demystify that scene. But without going going back and revisiting all those posts, I can’t remember any of them that spoke specifically to the recruitment side of things.
Bacchus, I might also be underestimating the number of young women who are athletic, adventurous, AND kinky. That was not my scene when I was young so I don’t know.
Other than the allegations against James Deen, the worst complaint by kink dot com performers I can recall was something like them using the same sink to wash the toys and fill water bottles for the performers. They seem to recruit a lot of young women and lead them on an erotic adventure until they say “whoah!”
All fair enough! But of course if “gay for pay” is a thing in porn (and it always has been) then I think it’s safe to assume that “kinky for pay” is not unheard of either.
And people try out things which they later decide are not for them for all kinds of reasons other than “I got paid cash money,” but I wonder if they had a strategy to find fit bendy young women like they had for finding kinksters and women with a fantasy. The more I learn about the SF Bay Area the less I think I understand.
If you want to know how Kink.com recruited talent while they were in San Francisco, there are plenty of performers who worked there that have talked about it. Dana DeArmond has brought it up in several interviews, since she was one of the rare performers who did her first work with them. (I believe her story was that she saw some videos from FuckingMachines.com, and was intrigued enough that she wanted to try it out and contacted them to apply.)
The majority of their performers were already in the industry, though. So I guess their secret was mostly “be a profitable studio that paid performers for scenes”.
Lance, I could do that, but the people who I follow online tend to be people who spent a long time in the industry and are very neurodivergent. So the kind of young people who performed for a year or two, treated it like a sport or an adventure vacation, then dropped out of sight would be harder to find than the Charlotte Sartres, and their stories of how they ended up in the basement with the man and the toys would be different.
Dana DeArmond looks cute in her Wikipedia photo