Perhaps you’ve heard: The Internet is killing the porno star. With free sites like XTube and PornoTube offering everything from amateur smut to professional fare, the days of a booming adult film industry are looking shorter and shorter. It’s not just word that the Playboy brand is crumbling, but that even start-up operations (your RandyBlues and SeanCodys) are feeling the hurt as more sex-on-tape consumers turn to free alternatives. Some successful porn actors, accustomed to earning four-figures a scene and reaping six-figure annual salaries, are now struggling for work — and it’s definitely not because America’s appetite for skin is on the wane. We’ve already said goodbye to porn mags like Mandate and Honcho, but how long before we see yet another revolution-via-technology in the smut factory?
So you tell us: Are you contributing to the decline of paid porn, or will you remain a patron propping up the good old days of raunch until the very end?
Skaboy
Torrents all the way! If i find one i really like, i will consider buying. Most of them only have one scene that is half way decent anyway.
bernardvanburen
none of the above. i download porn from private bit torrent trackers.
anonymous
I can’t imagine who would still be paying to watch that junk. And junk is all it is. Many of the companies who are able to struggle along are clumping together scenes from old stuff and repackaging it as new.
I have seen stuff from amatuers sent in to many of these sites were the person had clearly hid a camera and the other had no idea they were being filmed that would give Falcon and Raging Stallion a run for their money. Those clips are also the best to watch.
A lot of good stuff are on those free sites. Check it out. But I strongly recommend you avoid X-Tube. They are nothing but a borderline pay-per-view site.
Jay Oh
XXX piracy threatens to put gay-owned companies out of business, and that means a loss of jobs for people within the community and people supportive of the community.
prissysissy
@Jay Oh: Are you trying to elicit sympathy for the smut peddlers who exploit vulnerable gay/confused men for profit?
Being supportive of the gay community is not the same as being supportive of smut and exploitation.
prissysissy
Can’t imagine spending a penny so that an untalented hack somewhere can make six figures just by showing some skin.
TANK
Porn is morally bankrupt. Anyone who enjoys it is engaging in moral terpitude.
mikeandrewsdantescove
I still rent films and buy content on line once in awhile. As for the DVD market, I can understand why it’s taking a hit. After you watch a film a few times, there is no real need to keep it.
Mike
http://jjadams928.blogspot.com/
Derek
Tank if your Dad has not used porn to help make his limp dick hard, you would not be here.
ChristopherM
@TANK:
Well isn’t that special?
M Shane
Tank : moral terpitude.? No objection , just don’t get your meaning.
The impression that I’ve had from a number of people, is that with the marrige/stay at home routine, porn is becoming more and moire imperative to allow sexual release since the real thing is’nt as available any more and it can be done sureptitiously.
I pliss
@Derek: No if he did use porn Tank won’t be here! That sperm would be in a sock somewhere in the dump.
I’m sorry but I love porn. it’s my way to get off. straight gay bi no lesbo porn but I love to cum with the porn star. some of them gets fucked just the way I love to give it. and I have different porno’s depending on the mood I’m in. so I buy rent download. broke straight boys use to be my fav until my fantasy was disturbed to see most of them were on other websites. but I still check them out every now and again! lol
and amateur porn are great. cause it’s all about the fucking! no dialog just put on a show!
Chitown Kev
@TANK:
I engage in a bit of moral terpitude myself, in that case. Every once in a great while, I even pay for it.
Russell
Does anyone else find it amusing that only 2% don’t watch porn? Says something about the Queerty readership…
TANK
@M Shane:
Then you’ve been hearing for straight people. Who gives a fuck about them anyway?
TANK
straight people with bad marriages.
TANK
@Chitown Kev:
That’d be porn you’re paying for, right? Just to be sure…
SM
@TANK:
How cool is this. When TANK is 80, he can look back on his life and see he wasted it on the internet 20 hours a day. Queerty.com too.
GO DO SOMETHING OFF THE INTERNET.
You know how unhealthy it is to post on message boards as much as you do? Especially when you say the same fucking thing 13213142384723470243297490234 times?
TANK
@SM:
Pot kettle. And who says I’m not doing something “off” the internet?
Derek
Guys TANK was a total dick on Towleroad when he trolled those threads too…..
Glad to see “things” never change!
Paul
Porn is great, and it’s everyone’s choice whether or not they wnat to watch it. Most people I know download porn through torrents, b/c paying for porn isn’t cheap, and its not worth it.
Drew
“Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature” – Camille Paglia
Next!
James P. P.
bittorrents/xtube here.
AND the reason why porn is failing is because it’s plastic. there is a separation that has been going on for a while between the polished, emotionless studio porn and the raw excitement of amateur porn via xtube. while the sean cody’s and randy blues go on and on about stupid straight boys (talking to them for 30 minutes to prove their “straightness”, people like me are on xtube looking a real people having real fun. it’s exciting!
porn studios try and try, but they have to turn a large profit – and someone good looking college guy banging his girlfriend’s mouth does not.
one does it for money, the other does because they want to.
guess which one is hotter to me?
RainaWeather
@James P. P.: I agree with everything you just said. I think youporn is pretty good as well
YOUCANTHANDLETHETRUTH
I do, but not half the ammount I pay for sex.
Chitown Kev
@TANK:
Yep. Not all that much actually, there are more than enough (free) blogs that cater to my porn interests. Gosh, who knew that you were such a prude, TANK.
j
@YOUCANTHANDLETHETRUTH: Hahah! Youcan made a comment that wasn’t a flame, and it was even funny! (if a tad sad) Congrats, you’re half way to being an ally. Also, figures someone as fixated on homosexual, “forbidden” sex can’t get much of the straight variety without paying for it.
Qjersey
“Some successful porn actors, accustomed to earning four-figures a scene and reaping six-figure annual salaries, are now struggling for work”
If you subtract the escort work, no one is making 6 figures a year doing porn unless they are doubling as producer.
D-Sun
I watch it for free, of course.
Ohomo
The web is still young, and the porn industry as we know it is too. Most porn companies of any note rose during either the VHS, DVD or Web “revolutions.” Each format had its vulnerabilities for theft. The ubiquity of web access works both ways, making stolen porn more accessible and pay-for-porn more accessible. To assume that an entire industry will fold is to not understand basic human nature. People will always be willing to pay for a product that is well produced and a pleasure to buy. Porn included.
As for all the toads on this forum that hate the idea of porn, I feel sorry for you. 35 years of sexual liberation seems to have passed you by. A sexual product, like any other product, can be good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. It just depends.
Dawson
As long as D.J. Carlton is still making films I will continue to buy them.
J.Lowrot
TANK, What is “terpitude”? Does that have something to do with the University of Maryland? If you’re talking about things that are vile or depraved that is “turpitude.”
TANK
@J.Lowrot:
Hey, thanks! I don’t know if that would have made sense to anyone given the spelling error.
Michael W.
xtube, jerkyourtube, dudevu, tube8, pornotube has all I need. I might sign up every once in a while to get something special, like when I paid for an EnglishLads membership for a month to get their James Nichols videos. But there’s more than enough in the free world of porn and I prefer the real amateur stuff.
redherring
hell no. no xtube either. gay-torrents.net
anonymous
Whoever said hip-hop and gay bareback porn dont mix clearly have not seen this. It is a MUST SEE.
http://www.jerkyourtube.com/video/16985/Public-BB–Do-Not-Miss-It
Trust me you will go no where else looking for porn.
Ohomo
No, trust me. That the video sucks. The picture quality, the limp-dicked barback-ee and the limp-brained bareback-er, the whole thing was about as sexy as a tootsie roll floating in a punch bowl.
schlukitz
@j:
It’s not the real youcanthandlethetruth. ;0)
anonymous
@Ohomo: I don’t know about your tastes but that was a hot bareback scene. The music was RGHT ON TIME with the guys who were in it. I wonder if they are Brits?
I do wish they had named the artists. I love that song.
anonymous
For those of you who remember back in the day when Jean Daniel Cardinot was at his best here is a classic scene I (and those who will remember it) thought was lost forever. Thank god for free porn.
http://www.jerkyourtube.com/video/16579/Vintage-digestiv–garcons-de-plage
Cadinot was one of a kind. He cared about what he made and it shows in every thing he made. This was from the days when you had sex without a rain coat (though AIDS was known about throughout the gay community worldwide).
Be sure to stay till the second scene get going. You wont regret it.
James P. P.
you know the really sad part? studio porn can leap from over internet porn with some inventive thinking and application. there is still a lot out there that can be put on film and put on film well, but you have to have someone with half a brain behind the camera and someone who’s not on crystal meth in front of the camera.
the internet is here to say and like digital music/downloading, the porn industry can either embrace it or fight it. their CONTENT is what is preventing their sales. their arrogance is preventing their growth.
Ohomo
Uh, ok anonymous. You can stop drooling and sharing your porn library with us now. Your poor exhausted mother has dinner ready for you and your 30 cats.
anonymous
@Ohomo: I am not going to stop until I find the one of you blowing that dead dog. Lord the smile on that dead dogs face was legendary.
schlukitz
Viva la Cardinot!
Ohomo
OK, Anonymous. I still don’t get you, but I now definitely respect your sense of humor.
Aaron
I’ve never paid for porn. It’s either whatever free stuff I can find online or my imagination.
Rick
@Derek: lmao
demi
LMAO! “…was about as sexy as a tootsie roll floating in a punch bowl.”
jason
Porn is tacky, anyway. Poor scripts, poor production, you name it. Oh, and did I forget to mention actors who look as if they’ve been sedated just prior to doing their scenes?
Patrick
@anonymous: That was hot…I’m into torrents. gay-torrents.net is great for porn and non-porn movies.
stevenelliot
Does anyone read anymore???? nifty.org has thousands of gay porn stories. Some of which are off the charts hot, some blah, etc. But I always find one to get me off and its free.
Pay-wise I keep going back to template.aebn.net its a pay-per-view porn vid site and its pretty economical. Lots of sorting out the bad stuff but I usually find something I can climax with.
Xtube I find to be a little harder to find a scene that has good lighting and sound and videography to take me over the edge.
B-Gad
The only porn I’ve considered buying was from Trannywood, because they’re non-exploitative, grassroots, and all-body-positive. Good stuff.
galefan2004
@prissysissy: Lets be honest they exploit vulnerable (and by vulnerable I mean POOR) straight men for profit. Gay men are rarely a part of the gay male adult entertainment industry even more, so I don’t feel to so sorry for the makers of adult video.
The music industry eventually adapted to “piracy” by coming out with rhapsody and other $.99 cent song download sites. The porn industry will eventually do the same. “Piracy” is going to stay. However, I would gladly take “piracy” any day over charging $50 for a DVD that cost around $1 to produce. See, when big business gets greedy it fails. I don’t see Obama about to bail out the porn industry any time soon.
galefan2004
@TANK: When the fuck did you become judge, jury and executioner? I thought that was what Dutty Barb and Icanthandlethetruth were here for.
cdympy
@prissysissy: A pornstar making 6 figures? Right…
Brian
2% doesn’t watch porn – and 50% of gays are FAT. Now I’m confused.
jayare
I gotta agree that many studios are relying on the same techniques they used a decade ago, not realizing that many things have moved forward. Who wants to pay for stock standard porn in this economy when you can get exciting, amateur-ish porn for free? Hell, you can often find scenes from pay sites for free on those YouTube-esque sites. If the porn industry is suffering, its gonna be up to the porn industry to pull itself out
jackedass
I unfortunately cannot find the kind of porn that pleases me, GAY ASIAN PORN that is.., so there for, I pay for my porn in some way or form.
Lately I have been making my own porn with my hot and willing Asian midnight booty calls. And I have gotta tellya.., there isnt’ anything hotter than watching your own porn. Not so much fun in the making department.., as with catching the right angles, lighting.., and close ups, simply because it takes away from the moment and enjoyment of having sex. But boy (no pun intended), let me tell you.., watching the same porn that you and your partner that night starred in over and over again, is well worth it.
If you should ever decided to shoot your own porno-flick.., take my advise.., first time…, rent as many cameras and tri-pods as you can afford. DVT or DVD for the best editing quality. I used 7 cameras in my last shoot, and only 5 needed tri-pods..,one was hand held, and the other was mounted on the ceiling.
Why so many cameras you ask.., simply because.., when you’re shooting it.., and you’re either on the bottome or the top.., that’s all that you see from that angle.., but when you see it from the other 6 angles.., it’s like a totally different video, and way hotter from the other angles than you’re own.., and it almost seems like there was someone else in the room with you shooting it from these other angles without you even knowing that they were in the room.
besides.., if you’re going to sell it…, think about it and do the math…, two actors.., (you and your partner of crime), 7 cameras, 5 tripods…, ONE SHOOT!!! ONE DAY RENTALS!!!
7 FULL LENGTH VIDEOS.
if you cant see the $$$$$$$$$$$$$ by now.., then you’re blind.
The adult entertainment industry is still the leading film industry in the world today.., so I’m not quite sure what they’re hurting from besides possilbly (and do I dare say) a miss management of funds?
=o
Other than that.., home made porn.., may very well be what’s killing the porn industry. If they want to survive…, they need to tap into the vast undiscovered amatuersish voyouerisque talent that’s out there.
enuff said on my part I think.
=D
Lex
Free porn unless it’s off the wall fetish then I might shell out something for it once. There’s so much free porn all over the place I’m surprised the industry makes anything at all.
jackedass
@galefan2004:
if you’re going to quote a dvd as being over charged @ $50, (which happens to be about the average price for porn) then at least educate yourself about what it REALLY COST to produce quality studio porn. $1 is an insult to everyone on here, and everyone in the porn industry.
Say if they rent one camera alone.., that’s $50/day.
Lights, balances.
Sound equipment, microphone booms.
Locations, props. (and I dont mean dildos or vibrators either), as in background decor.
the staff other than the actors, to operate all this equipment.
You could easily run into a $1000. before you even start to calculate how much you’re going to pay the actors “PER CUM SHOT” mind you. Not per video. But per scene/cum shot is how these guys get paid.
So please dont insult any of us with this silly $1 cost to shoot a porn.
And I’m not sure if it was you or someone else that said it, but YES sum pornstars do make 6 figures a year. It all depends on how much exposure they want.., are they in it for the porn, for the sex.., for the money because they really want to go to school and become something more than just a pornstar. There are many reasons.
If you’re not a fan of porn.., that’s fine.., you have a right to your opinion.., but dont try to persuaed the rest of us who really enjoy watching our fantasies come to life in the privacy of our own homes on our TV sets.
I think I’ve said enuff on my part.
JA
=D
jackedass
@jason:
LOL…,
What porn are you watching???
=o
Aaron
I hope porn with music in the background goes away forever. Its so distracting!
Helga von ornstein
@jackedass: I do wish those who are producing that outright trash called Thug porn would take your advice. If ever there were trash in porn that is it.
No creativity what-so-ever and the models for the most part are absolutetly beautiful. Well toned muscular guys who need a cameraman and director whom are not there just for the exploitation. That is the part that makes it so bad.
Youcanthandlethetruth
I love watching free gay porn especially Rockettube. There’s nothing like watching a hot twink like Brent Corrigan get nailed in the ass. It’s kind of like what I do when my wife is out with the kids, or with the choir boys at church, LOL.
Oh and I especially like sucking on huge black dong the best. Nothing like having cum alll over my face mmmm<3
anonymous
Imagine if the situation is so bad where Falcon and Raging Stallions are talking about a merger?
StraightGrrrl
XTube is very gritty…the fisting and prolapsed rectum fetishes on that site are too much for my eyes to take. Also why do ugly hairy fat men feel the need to show off their bods on xtube?
I do however, enjoy solo male masturbation and softcore European stuff especially from this guy called “netpics.” I tend to like youthful androgynous looking men in their 20s who look more like pre teens. I know that I can get away with this comment because I’m female, but I like the look of smooth tender adult males that resemble younger males. Now if a man said that he’d be accused of being a pedophile LOL. But Im just not turned on by overly buff macho hairy men doing homoerotic stuff. Twinks and pretty boys are cool. So stuff like Bel Ami is good. Andre Pagnol is exceptionally stunning and so is Ralph Woods.
schlukitz
OMG!
The guy on the left looks like a young Jeff Chandler.
I know. Who is Jeff Chandler? LOL
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001996/
Grrrl-friend, you just said the magic word with Bel Ami.
I’ve been hooked on them since they made their first video. And the music tracks they use in the background are something else as well. You have good taste in men…and music. ;o)
I need to check-out Andre Pagnol and Ralph Woods, however.
allstarecho
@StraightGrrrl: “Ugly hairy fat men” feel the need to show off their bods on xtube because there’s cute and ugly smooth skinny men that like “ugly hairy fat men”. I’d ask why “ugly hairy fat chicks” feel the need to show off their bods anywhere but I know there are others who like them.. to each his or her own.
Dallas David
I did my Xmas shopping in a XXX bookstore one year. Everyone still remembers what I gave ’em . . .
You’d think in this age of media and imagination that the porn merchants would find other ways to market their products than just video.
How about statues of our favorites? “Collect ’em all!”
Or maybe a collection of pillowcases, coffee cups, halloween costumes, coat hooks, Xmas tree decorations, silverware, etc etc etc.
And throw in some good fiction. How difficult can it be to find a good mystery story with a few erotic passages, and use some porn models to illustrate the action? And not everything has to be 100% porn 100% of the time. Sort of like romance novels, with different grades of eroticism (from a mild romance to an orgasm on every page) using your model’s photo and (fake) identity.
Geez . . . no wonder the porn industry is in decline . . . You’re all pictures and no imagination . . .
ewe
I pay for CNN which has Elliot Spitzer starring.