The Future of Adult Entertainment After Covid
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As y ou are no doubt well aware, a virual experience does not compare to the in person interactive intimacy and engagement. But it does lend itself to more personalized experience. To make money and beat the competition, online entertainers have become more specialized. This move to specialization will carry forward to the in person club experience now since patrons are 'getting spoiled' no longer having the generci experience.
In the week after Americans started receiving their stimulus checks, many sites 15% to 25% increases in traffic to their live streaming sites and tips to models increased by 40%. That is incredibly significant. Some sites have seen > 500% increase. If this continues, top of the line models and dancer will not need to leave the comfort of their bedrooms to make money and not have to deal directly in person with customers. Just look at the phenom success of the site OnlyFans - enabling adult performers and sex workers to create and monetize content OnlyFans lets content creators keep 80% of the revenue. They pay no fees like some clubs charge performers. They only make money when the content creator generates revenue. OnlyFans has more than 30 million registered users, has paid out $725 million in revenue to its more than 450,000 content creators.
The biggest hurdle for creators of adult online content and products usually comes from the payments processors and credit card networks that make it hard for most web services to allow such content. Those that do charge significantly higher fees. OnlyFans, even though it is a child of the social media and influencer age, doesn’t have a mobile app right now. That undoubtedly limits its growth and makes it harder to use for both creators and subscribers.
Moreover, critics worry that the rise of OnlyFans and other adult fan sites is a sign that the pandemic's economic woes are driving more people to sell their nude images for an income. T
Even after the pandemic is over, it's unlikely that creators will go back fully to in-person performances and services when they can prosper online. Online camera models are going to earn a lot more than a model who goes to her local strip club. They make 10x more money than leaving their house. The phenomenon has already entered the lexicon of pop culture. The bottom line: This is the new normal. It’s never going to go back to where we were before. New innovations and disruptions will be on the backs of strip club owners - if not, the days of the local in person strip club we've all come to know may be drawing to a close
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There is a huge potential market for live "pay to play" adult entertainment. Perhaps the prices in strip clubs need to become more affordable?
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For the PLs who prefer in person contact, OnlyFans is a niche market at best, for example if a PL spend $500 per month on OTC and ITC providers, o highly doubt he would pay that type of money on OnlyFans content creators, my guess would be rarely more than $50 per month.
During the quarantine, subsequent club closings and lame reopening, PLs realized they can live without mongering (though they prefer to club/Monger) and can use they money saved on other project, not just send it to OF content creators.
The problem with website based Adult Entertainment is the infinite amount of free Adult entertainment available really makes it difficult to justify spending large sums of money, even if the product is customized and personal.
Also, assuming your numbers are correct, it appears that only the owners/operators of the website are making money, if they take 20% (their equivelent to a house fee or tip out) they made $145 million, because $725 million distributed to 450,000 content creators is an average payout of $1600, hardly life changing money.
OF will continue to appeal to a niche market but I do not see it as the future of the Adult Entertainment Industry, you just can not replace the real thing.
As far as millennials vs boomers, I’ll just say I wholeheartedly disagree with that. I’ve danced for plenty of millennial. And when a dancer is working in a club where it’s the norm to do more in “dances” than one feels comfortable with, then not only is the younger crowd okay then they are the best customer group. Cause they care more about the party.
I think the biggest blow to the strip club industry, judging from what I’ve heard, was sometime (2006-2008?) when tax write offs for strip club visits was done away with. But a little after a decade, plenty of clubs are still standing. Even if that amazing money train that I imagine existed back then isn’t still around.
As far as what places for clubs are truly devastated post-covid IMO it’s too soon to tell. Maybe in a year or two it would be easier to say with more confidence.
I doubt the average guy who is addicted to video games and porn is ever going to go to a stripclubs, that seems slightly to cool. Maybe he will sign up for a OF account.
I think that guys who do Sugar dating might be more inclined to meet girl directly from online. Some friends have been telling me that's what they do.
that the younger generation won't have strip club experiences and therefore will be happy with online over club experience. Really is not proven out by human behavior.
The face to face touch and feel of women is not replaced by video experience.
It's like saying pizza delivery is great for covid, fine dining is not happening,
therefore fine dining will die out because pizza is easier and just as good. Pizza is not a aged steak done to perfection.
Apples and oranges.
Now if they invent star trek like holodeck experiences for sex. That would kill strip clubs...
Otherwise the online experience, as good as it is getting, is a far cry from the strip club experience.
Visual tactile and interactive nature of the lap dance is unique.
Plus the perceived chance, real or not, of some strange cannot be replaced by a cam.