08-05-2013, 06:59 AM
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Why America's Outdated Morals Won't Let Porn into Mainstream Business
This article at Nerve explores the disconnect between innovators and proponents of new porn ventures and the stifling of those new ventures.
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"I should have been every Venture Capitalist's wet dream," Cindy Gallop said to me as I sat in her trendy Chelsea apartment, discussing her start-up, "Make Love Not Porn." She's said the same thing to USA Today, to Venture Village, and to other outlets when her platform for "real world sex" videos came out. ?Every VC?s wet dream??It's an incredibly catchy phrase, one full of thrill, of possibility.
But this is reality: Neither MLNP?which crowdsources videos of ordinary people having genuine, ?real-world? sex?nor other sex-oriented tech start-ups are VC's wet dreams. They're not the wet dreams of Android, of iOS, of Google Glass, or of banks. For months, MLNP was unable to set up accounts at PayPal, at Amazon, even at Chase Bank, which made it impossible at first to provide the $5 "#realworldsex" rentals to their audience that is their revenue model. Another sex-oriented tech company, Mikandi, released the app Tits N Glass about three weeks ago, especially designed for Google Glass.
The next day, Google Glass changed its terms and conditions to prohibit sexual content, annihilating Tits N Glass's original mission to provide a platform for users to upload, share, and vote on pornographic pictures. Bang with Friends, an app that matches you with Facebook buddies who have a mutual interest in you, was kicked off the iPhone in May. Vibease?an Android-approved app which functions as a remote control for a vibrator miles away, and especially designed for long-distance relationships?and Unbound?which provides a box of erotic goodies and sex toys for online subscribers?have knocked heads with PayPal and Amazon just as much as MLNP has.
The world of tech and business is making it difficult, if not nearly impossible, for these sex-based tech startups to take the stage.
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