More thoughts – Where DOES all the porn go?
Posted on | January 20, 2008 | 10 Comments |
A bit more philosophy while I laze around trying not to do work on a Sunday evening – Please stick with me til the end – I guarantee there will be a point to all of this…
First, consider the top shelf of your average corner shop or video store – even recently in famous UK stationary shop WH Smith, the top shelves of the magazine racks are filled to the bursting point with various magazine pornography. Now please consider the sheer amount of porn that is churned out in the world today. Taking just the burgeoning American pornography industry as standard, since each film takes barely a day to make, there must be at least five or more films being made every day.
If we don’t take the internet into account, that is a superb amount of the pink stuff making its way out into the market. If we go by the amount it costs to make each film, we have to factor in pressing the DVDs, marketing, and of course, actor and actress wages (peanuts though they may be) each film might be low budget, but the sheer amount of them makes it very big business indeed.
The question that puzzles me really is this – who exactly buys all the porn? Perhaps now, with the advent of the internet it is easy to imagine that the closet perverts can sit in the comfort of their own armchairs at home and order their niche snuff porn by the bucketload which arrives in discreet brown paper packages while their neighbours remain none the wiser. However, thinking back not that long ago when there was no such convenient anonymiser, how was an honest aficionado going to get his fix without outing his tastes to the shopkeeper and various other passers by who just happened to be looking in that direction in the brief moments between shelf and bag?
Speaking for myself, I have never plucked up the nerve to actually take a pornographic publication down off the top shelf and take it to the counter, look the cashier in the eye and say “One porn please”, and I’m sure not many of you would have either. When I was in secondary school, porno mags were sacred treasures passed down from generation to generation of schoolkids until tattered, torn and the pages stuck together. The impulse to actually buy a new one never really crossed anyone’s mind.
But the pornography must be bought – otherwise the magazines wouldn’t stay in print. WH Smiths wouldn’t stock them unless there was a customer base who bought them regularly . Movies must make a profit, otherwise there wouldn’t be a point in churning them out so readily – cheap though they are to produce.
So there are two possible solutions to this paradox. Either there are a secret subset of people that surreptitiously buy the porn mags and videos from the top shelves and this knowledge is kept between them and the shopkeepers in question or in actual fact no-one buys them at all and every week all the porn goes back to a huge warehouse in Boston where it is ritually burned. Perhaps it really is a labour of love for the porn producers and actresses ^_^
Oh yeah, and once upon a time did women really have to go into shops and buy vibrators? Did they have to say a secret password to be let into the backroom wherein lay a whole manner of womanly goodness? Or was there a selection of sex toys brought round in the boot of the car of the fabled Avon lady when she came calling?
So there are many paradoxes in the world of perversity – and it seems for the most part that we manage to keep our quirks and foibles under wraps and continue to consume that vast bathtub of porn just as fast as those artificially tanned porn producers in America (and Germany) can throw it at us…
On a completely unrelated note – I am ordering some cotton rope from a man who supplies rope for garden and indoor furniture under the guise of a magician who needs it for tying up his glamorous assistant. Well, that’s almost what it’s going to be used for…ahem.
Perhaps that is the secret – weaving an intricate web of lies to cover your perverted tracks.
Sorry Rope Man…
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January 21st, 2008 @ 12:20 am
Hey Yuribou,
You make an amazing point where does all the porn go? Honestly, who can afford to buy out all the porn that is produced every day so that it can continue to be sold for PROFIT lol. I can only assume Ron Jeremy goes into electronic shops and adult stores and buys everything in there and then goes home with some rope also (I love that comment). I do think that it goes to a big warehouse in Boston which it is blessed by an occult of rich fanatics. I guess we will never know the truth huh Yuribou? Well, gives me something to try and figure out when I am bored ^_^.
Later
January 21st, 2008 @ 8:08 am
The internet is for porn and thats were it ends up at.
January 21st, 2008 @ 8:13 am
Re: Where does all the porn go?
As far as live action video porn is concerned, a significant source of revenue comes from selling packages to major cable/satellite carriers who then beam the content directly into homes and hotels. It is actually these companies that take in a lion’s share of profits, not individual producers or performers.
January 21st, 2008 @ 6:55 pm
Shame sort of wears itself out after awhile. Your 100th porn video is much easier to by than your 1st. This is how ero-oyaji are formed.
January 21st, 2008 @ 8:07 pm
SousukexGauron?
January 22nd, 2008 @ 4:53 pm
Hmmm that’s a good point. Maybe all the Christian clubs that hate porno buy it and burn it. I realy don’t know about the UK but in the US it seems that no one realy cares what they see or buy. Heck, I’ve even seen an old asian guy buying a stack of 14-17 hentai’s just from suncoast.
January 22nd, 2008 @ 11:00 pm
I buy the hentai stuff but not live action its boring for me but I’ve only bought 2 adult titles in a brick and mortar store those being la blue girl box set & bible black dvd since I’m mostly an intranets shopper.
January 23rd, 2008 @ 3:04 am
Very interesting. It is true that I hardly ever see anyone buying porn, but hentai is a bit more common. Stores like Suncoast and Virgin’s that sell hentai though have more people buying it. Why, a friend of mine bought me a hentai DVD for Christmas last year (not the recent one, the one before.)
January 24th, 2008 @ 4:35 pm
I think Nick bought all the porn.
January 30th, 2008 @ 4:55 am
I believe you stumbled accross the answer to this line of thought a while ago when writing about Zero no Tsukaima.
http://www.yuribou.net/blog/?p=114
Clearly it ends up in a not too unsimilar fashion as legendary heirlooms to latter generations. “Its just old porn.”