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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Exactly. Not to mention people have posted graphs on GFY in previous discussions on this very topic. If someone was that interested, they could do a few simple searches.
One a side note, I am going to share a story as it relates to what others have mirrored in their own porn searches based on my experience. A bit off topic, but still relevant to this discussion on porn buyers.
Before there was online porn, I would have to go to the porn shop. I would look through endless box covers and mag looking for just the right thing to hit the spot. I would have to rent sometimes 2-3 movies in the hope there would be something that would be the money shot for what I care for.
When the internet came along, I had many more choices to pick from. The variety was amazing, and not only did I have the existing movies that were out there to choose from. I also have the independent producers who were more in touch with what TRUE foot lovers wanted. They catered more to the foot fetish audience, and better tailored endless money shots in their clips. So you could go to a foot fetish TGP and it would be pure gold to find foot fetish stuff. If everything feet got you off, you were all set.
Over time, you fine tune what you like. Not just 'everything' gets you off anymore. You start having some sort of list of things that you like, and prefer. So your fetish, or preference becomes fine tuned. Clips4Sale comes on the scene, and you get even more producers who truly understand the fetish, and have it literally DIALED IN pure gold in almost every scene so you pop your top and are willing to pay for it.
While I could go on, the point is simple. For my own porn tastes, I go to maybe a half dozen sites and producers who cater to exactly what I like and want. I am a part of that 25-55 buying male demographic with credit cards, who will still buy porn. I am not a teenager who gets off any time the wind blows and just needs a naked chick.
The demographic has aged. They want more tailored content, and have flooded to places like Clips4Sale to get it. They now only need a handful of studios, or producers, or sites to get off. They no longer need to search hundreds of sites to find it.
Those who are buying, know where to get it. They do not need to search for it
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While people fine tune what they like not everyone ends up with a micro niche fetish, like feet. For MANY people fine tuning it might be petite college girls, or blondes with big boobs. Which content like that can be found very easy. Your porn site and your personal preference is NOT representative of the majority. Social networking sites might be hurting your sales because people can show their feet on them. But for everyone else, we are ok because there isn't hardcore (or even soft) on social networking sites.
You kill me with the " if people really cared to search then they can find graphs easy on here" if it is that easy then it would be less time for you to grab the shit and post it then it would be for you to keep saying that. Typically when people say do the search, its because its not on here, or they can't find it themselves.
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Originally Posted by mynameisjim
Man, are people clueless.
Comparing the popularity of Facebook to the decline of porn sales is like comparing the popularity of Lady Gaga and the decline of Debbie Gibson. They are in the same market but totally unrelated.
People surf porn for about 20 minutes a day, not hours and hours. As someone said, it's not a zero sum game either. You might as well argue that because Facebook is popular, that's why the weather channel website is losing traffic. It makes no sense.
BTW, show me the mega tube sites that are losing traffic because of Facebook and I will believe you that social networking is taking away from porn surfing time. But you can't, because tube sites are still building traffic despite showing the same videos on every one of them.
If the argument was true, then tube sites would be hurting for traffic as well, and we all know the total opposite to be the reality.
Can we stop this thread now?
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Only when people drop the "blame everything else - we need to make excuses" mentality and they wise up.
Only undisputable causes of a drop in porn sales IMO is lack of funds on credit cards and sites like youporn eating up millions and millions of potential customers a day who get to see it all for free. Side notes: tube sites don't hurt cam and dating sales. I do think social networking sites can affect dating.