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.
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January 13th, 2010 at 7:41 pm
virushopper says:I always believed technology went a little too fast for society to catch up. With that said we all know once one P2P medium falls another takes its place and chances are free porn is going to be there. I’m curious as well why the industry hasn’t put more money in researching what areas needs to be fixed.
January 13th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
alison hart says:virushopper – I think the real reason the industry hasn’t put money into that is that “the industry” really isn’t a cohesive unit when it comes to anything. Be it piracy or battling obscenity charges or any other issue that affects us all as a whole, no one can seem to agree to pitch in and come together. No one is interested in helping anyone else out until they’re the ones in trouble.
January 15th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
virushopper says:That’s a shame. Just curious is there a company right now making actual money right now?
January 15th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
alison hart says:I think there are a lot of companies that are still making money at the moment. Some of them are pretty flat – no growth, but no decline, so they’re making the same money they were last year. I suspect a lot are slowly leaking cash/hoping the bleeding stops soon, but are still profitable (just less so than last year).
And there are some that are profiting off of piracy and screwing over everyone else in the process. For a look at the tip of the iceberg of infighting about this, check out these posts on Mike South’s blog:
http://www.mikesouth.com/mike-south-commentary/jules-jordan-video-and-why-porn-is-in-the-toilet-3135/
http://www.mikesouth.com/uncategorized/jules-jordan-is-not-happy-with-me-3137/
January 16th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
virushopper says:Whoa but you know what I actually believe that. Now I wonder does Brazzers intentionally leak their videos ahead of time as well?
January 18th, 2010 at 9:42 am
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January 18th, 2010 at 10:53 am
alison hart says:virushopper – I’d believe it…
July 13th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
ocdave67 says:virushopper was correct in mentioning P2P as a major source of free porn. You can find nearly every Brazzers, Naughty America and most studio porn releases on a P2P site the same day it is released to the website or DVD porn sellers. Most of these P2P sites (more commonly known as torrent sites), operate out of European countries that have lax laws on copyright protections.
Keep in mind that unlike the RIAA that has prosecuted people for sharing music. Porn is not embraced by the American Government. In fact, it is often shunned. Meaning that even if the porn producers combined forces to prosecute people file sharing porn, they would have little or no support from our government or our court system.