Tough times in the porn industry

I'm curious if this means americans cant afford to jerk off as often in this economy?

(or is it all of the free porn youtube-like file sharing sites fault).

It could be she became too old and has been replaced by younger starlets. However, if I saw her as a feature dancer in a club, I would ask for a dance and extras to help out.

I think it said she was 23, but I imagine porn stars have a short shelf live. Not my cup of tea for looks, but sounds like the price would be right!

the sad fact is, and i know this is heresy to some, there is way too much porn, way too many girls in porn. look at all the stuff that's out there--most of it sux even if it is for free. go to freeones and look at the thousands of girls doing porn. Most are OK, maybe 6's or 7's. but hundreds of 6's or 7's get boring very quickly.

The best thing that could happen to the industry is a huge shakeout that drives out the mediocre. As for me, I'll continue to look for old clips of Tera Patrick (pre-botox and pre-Evan Seinfeld) and French beauty Clara Morgane (before she became a mainstream singing star). And maybe Madelyn Marie from today's crop of stars.

Plus if you can get laid or jacked at a strip club, who needs porn.

Porn is going to face many of the same pressures of other film studios. Why pay for a dvd when file sharing and free sites offer a ton of content. I would imagine less dvd's are sold by the mainstream film studios as well as porn manufacturers, etc.

I saw a TV story about how McDonald's and many companies have to have a certain % higher sales year after year or they are considered not meeting forecasts. The story posed the question, why does McDonalds need us to eat 10% more hamburgers the next year or they are considered not making expected profits, why cant the current profit % be acceptable year after year since there are only so many McD's hamburgers americans will eat. I think the same holds true for porn and everything else, why cant they sell the same year after year to be considered profitable.

Yes I have seen porn stars do a feature in a sc. They take in money as you tip them on stage after the show.

I just checked. I have 161 porno's on my hard drive. Ranging from 59 sec's to 90 minutes. I didn't pay for any of them. I haven't bought or rented a porno in the last 15 years. It's all free. So why pay?

What I find hard to believe is that she was only making $150,000 a year. I guess that could mean that she was making that much just from the porn and had other income dancing etc. It sure doesn't make port sound that lucrative. At a nude club near me, the better girls make $1500 a night. This is at a club which is kind of factory like. Dances are timed $20/5 min. VIP is $180/ 30 minutes. Some of the girls are 8-9s,but some are not. Some are 5-6s.

This particular club isn't even known for extras. I had one girl complaining that the beginning of the week was slow, but she still brought home between $500 and $600.

Sounds to me like she didn't plan very well for when the inevitable end-of-career happens.

Thirty years ago, there was only three porn producers. Then, along comes taxi driver Ed Powers with a hand held camera, and he makes a fortune. Soon, there are five hundred porn producers.

There needs to be a bloodletting. There's a lot of crap porn out there. The only porn actors/actresses out there making money are multi talented, and haven't put all their eggs in one basket. Look at Sasha Grey-porn actress, actress, musician, and singer.

In the early 1980's, the term porn star came to the fore, but back then, there was about 25 true "porn stars" and about a hundred bit players. Nowadays, there's probably only a handful of "porn stars", but hundreds and hundreds of porn actresses.

Imunutz says there might be way too much porn? Well, simple demographics indicates that over time, as the baby boom passes on, there will be fewer adult consumers of porn, strip clubs, etc. I think we're beginning to see the effects of this now, although it is exaggerated by bad economic conditions at the moment.

The smart "staars" in porn wne into production and distribution. The rest just get older leave the scene.

I can't remember the last time I paid for porn. With the tube site and rapidshare it's all pretty much free.

There is a porn overload, for sure. Bad quality. Too many websites. And way too many homely girls. I watched most of my porn in the 80s and 90s and the girls were much better looking. I like unattainable women in my porn, not heavily tattooed skanks with obvious drug habits.

What's going to help the industry? I don't think Digital Playground is going to do it with multimillion dollar budget porn. Porn will always be around but only the strong will survive.

Anybody remember when girls used to pace themselves? First they'd be nude, then girl/girl, boy/girl, anal, multiple partners, then interracial and they were out of the business. Now it seems like girls do everything right out of the gate. Must lead to burnout.

I have noticed lots of first time girls in the strip clubs, however. Hard times driving them to it?