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Originally Posted by Nathan
Only one type of social network will work in straight adult in my opinion: swingers.
Anything else, the secrecy around porn consumption and sex in general makes it impossible to build a social graph around it. The men on the site also have very little in common other than the porn they consume. They will likely fear that the others are somehow strange or weird people, since they might think they are somewhat themselves.
It's not like you can build a social graph purely on a porn site, there are too many gaps in it at that point.
Again, with swingers, this will work in their group, no doubt.
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It's true a traditional social network will not work. But if you set it up properly and present to the user that it is private (for starters don't require them to tie it into an email account or if you do, stress privacy being respected) while making them see that there are benefits to being on the network they will use it.
What value does the social network have to the user? That is the question. For the swinger group it is meeting other people to have sex with primarily or to show off (part of the sexual height for some). Age, hair color, location, sexual interests - these things matter to swingers. But if I'm just Joe six pack interested in porn while married to my wife what do I care about these things as they relate to other average guys interested in porn? I don't.
...But I might care about what kind of content they are interested in and what they share. If they really tend to have interesting stuff (same fetish) then I might be interested in their writings on a certain sexual topic (like a blog).
Ever seen one of those "super threads" on a surfer forum where one guy posts 2,000 replies loaded with content and 1,000 different users "thank" him? That should show that it can be done and that there is a market.
A porn social network should integrate other media and presentation methods. Tubes, blogs, photo gallery, discussion forums, the works. But not just a hodge podge of different components added ars an afterthought (as is common now) but a totally integrated experience.
You would want to create a place where people feel they can go to share everything related to the porn which interests them. primarily. Secondarily you want people to want to go there to find content.
The REAL trick and draw would be in all the details and finishing touches to make the experience useful and intuitive for Joe Sixpack. How do you help him find the content he wants? How do you help him find interesting providers of content?
...Of course this would pretty much be content piracy hell without strong efforts to keep content "legal" or "acceptable". But just as with tubes and forums you can also use this as a means to make sales from teaser content as well.
If you find the idea useful and want to do me a favor, please push harder when it comes repeat infringers, Fabian.
