Porn Makes People Happy

Yesterday Spanking Blog linked to spanking model Alex Reynold’s self-described rant about the unwarranted judgmental criticism that porn models are subjected to. Myself, I wouldn’t call it a rant at all; to me, it reads more like a stirring manifesto. Here’s my favorite paragraph, on the social importance of porn (emphasis in original):

Porn, especially fetish porn, is actually important. Fetish porn allows people to realize that they aren’t the only people who are interested in what they are, to visualize their fantasies when they can’t connect with people in their personal lives and to be validated that what they like is okay. Despite how deeply involved I am in the creation of porn, I’m still a consumer of spanking pornography. I have subscriptions to five sites, and I watch them for my personal enjoyment, especially when I am unable to play for periods of time. There are lots of people for whom videos are the only way that they interact with their fetish. This is very important to them. Even when it’s not something so near and dear to someone’s heart, porn makes people happy. It doesn’t save anyone’s life. This is true. Neither does art. Neither does working in sales. Neither does designing roller coasters. The amount of people I know whose jobs are actually “necessary” when you really get down to it can be counted on the fingers of one hand. I have a job that makes other people AND me happy. That’s a win.

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A (Silent) View On The Future Of Porn

This Huffington Post interview with Peter Acworth, founder of Kink.com (which HuffPo describes as “the largest fetish porn production company in the world”), is more fascinating to me because of what Peter does not say about his business than because of what he does say. Kink.com has been innovative about extending its brand in startling ways while paring back its costs and its active site portfolio as the pay-by-subscription porn-site business model has crumbled in recent years, and the company has a unique asset in its landmark Armory facility in San Francisco. So what does Peter talk about in the interview when questions turn to the future of his business?

1. A new bar called the Armory Club that now anchors the beginning and end of his new-ish Armory tours;
2. The Armory tours themeselves;
3. A new permit allowing use of the drill court in the Armory for “sporting events, farmers markets, performance art, etc.; and
4. In the “still brainstorming” stage, “a thriving kink-centric online social networking site around our products and services.”

Notice what’s not on that list?

Yeah. There’s nothing about making or selling newer or different porn. No new sites, no new themes, no “reach new markets with our existing products”, no “branch out into newer new media”, nothing. What’s exciting about your current business direction, Mr. Porn Baron? Well, HuffPo, we’re doing all these fascinating things to monetize our awesome real estate better…

One more glimpse at the reality that porn remains, for now, an industry in search of a new business model.

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Fetishy Porn Is A Tool For Change

This is the sort of thing that Dr. Faustus likes to say at essay length. Only Furrygirl has somehow boiled it down to a tweet:

Fetishy porn is a tool for change. For reals! It gives the people not in urban kink bubbles a chance to see that other people are like them.

Sexy Expression FAIL

I hate to mock porn from Hustler’s Taboo, the stylish-but-raunchy fetish nature of which I generally quite enjoy. But when I see this particular photo, all I can see is a big thought bubble where she’s thinking “Bitch, please! Could you use some damn mouthwash?”

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