charlie g

Paul, I have a ton of respect for your work and knowledge. I have lost many litres of bodily fluid admiring your abilities. But free porn was absolutely inevitable. As you stated above, brick and mortar stores had to bring the people in. If they could have posted newspaper adverts with free porn you can bet your ass there would have been a ton of it. No eyes means no sales.

Fast forward to the internet, no clicks mean no sales. If your site has a high bounce rate you are going to do what you must to get the viewers' attention. So in a way, the internet marketers are right- traffic is king.

You are also right in that to convert the traffic, given the state of porn, it must be of quality or at least compelling. But the future of selling porn memberships is probably dead as we know it. Without a certain level of interactiveness no one will pay for porn.

Keep an eye on our friend nathen/fabian to see what he does. I would think a clone or acquisition of a MFC and dating (maybe what's left of FFN after they go belly up) is in the very near future for that network. I can't see him content sharing that pie.

Porn will be used as a value added service, like a condiment to get you in the mood to talk to a "real woman". There will still be a market for producers of pornography... but the salad days are gone forever.

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