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Study: AEE Attendees Male, Business Down, Free Porn Rampant
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas sociology department released the results of surveys conducted during the 2008 and 2009 AEEs. They asked both fan and trade participants about their demographics and attitudes on various topics. The results are pretty much what I would have expected, but there were a few pieces of info that I found interesting.
Only about 20% of the trade attendees were female.
This seems incorrect to me. Even if you don’t count the performers (although I’m not sure why you wouldn’t), I’d guess that 30-40% of the people I saw or met while working the show were female. In my experience, most companies are owned by men, but have a good number of female employees.
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Most companies report business is flat or down
We’re in a recession and battling the biggest threat (piracy) that porn has ever seen. That 67% of companies are seeing flat or reduced sales is unsurprising. What is surprising is that almost no one at the show seemed to be talking about what to do about that.
More than half of respondents watch free porn online
One star I interviewed told me that when she has tried to sell her movies at conventions, fans will actually say that they’re just going to download her movies for free online. It seems insane to me that people could be this insensitive, but the numbers don’t lie.
If you’re interested, you can read the report here.
How Specific are Your Porn Interests?
I took a trip to L.A. this weekend and happened to meet a pro basketball player while enjoying a beer with some friends outside their apartment (no, it wasn’t Kobe). After we talked basketball for a while, he asked what we did for a living. My companions and I are all in the porn business in one way or another and told him as much.
Not realizing, perhaps, that it’s a slight faux pas to tell someone you steal their product, he said that he usually got his porn from pornhub.com. The fact that a millionaire just told me he watched random, low-quality porn came as something of a shock. I’ve long been under the impression that people are generally looking for something more specific than that. Maybe I’m wrong.
I know the majority of people who answered the last poll said they didn’t pay for porn, but I’m really curious to know what that really means. (And as always, I’m interested to hear your opinions on issues like this. Please feel free to elaborate or put forth your own theories in the comments.)
Loading ...Is “Free” Destroying Porn?
The L.A. Times published a story yesterday about the trouble the porn industry is in and how it’s affecting performers and business owners alike. It’s an interesting read, but to make a long story short, free content is killing porn. Business is down across the board and the irony is that the tube sites that are destroying the industry aren’t even making money.
Paying for content simply isn’t necessary anymore and most of us don’t really want to. Sure, MP3s are only a buck on iTunes or Amazon, but you really can’t beat free. And free content’s not going anywhere.
I do wonder about the accepted wisdom that people who want free porn go to tube sites and never pay for anything. I know the tube sites are popular and I know that the advertising on them is next to worthless, but I’m never one to take the Chicken Littles of the world without a small grain of salt. So tell me…
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