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PORN IS DEAD!

Long Live The

NEW PORN

by Greg Jones / Mediaguy                          brought a new phase of adult entertainment             Now, there is Little Red Bunny.
www.PayoutMag.com                                 into the history of pornography.
                                                                                                     The re-birth of Aprodite
If you’re of a certain generation, the porn           All aspects of starting up, developing,
  you knew and loved, the industry you grew       marketing, curating and branding the                   Some websites even have schools, training
up with and then helped grow as you worked        standard business model in porn can now be         events, online or in real, brick & mortar
and developed your own business, is extinct.      found deployed on a macro level, in an infra       actuality. Even academies and universities.
Gone. Dead.                                       structure version of the original, behind this     Universities, like the Greeks of antiquity.
                                                  ever-widening field uncurtained upon the
     The adult industry has been turned on        niche, which can no longer simply be defined           We have created new pornstars, new
its head. In just a few short years, what was     as such but rather as an industry vertical all     gods and goddesses... and not just from the
once the least important, simple bauble used      its own.                                           existing pools of known, already-worshipped
to decorate sites, perhaps increase upsells,                                                         porn talent but from the unknown, untested
possibly maintain retention, has become the           Now, every tradeshow has not just an           amateurs emerging through the Elysium like
focus of whole websites, entire tradeshows        awards show, but its own version or segment        the sisters of fate.
and total awards ceremonies all their own, an     of live webcam award categories.
industry in and of itself...                                                                             The ancient Greeks: they sculpted and
                                                      Now, there are whole tradeshows                painted their heroes nude because they
     Webcams.                                     committed to webcams.                              believed this captured the true essence and
                                                                                                     intentions of the Gods.
     The “new” trend now dominating the adult         Now, most consumers expect their porn
industry is live video chat.                      idols to appear, live, at least once a week, in        Now, it is called smut. But Live Adult Video
                                                  all their “reality”, live and in person, and they  Chat goes beyond porn. Beyond voyeurism.
     Sites and networks and live adult streaming  line up like disciples in hopes of being the
platforms like Jasmin and Studio20 have           one to take them to private, VIP one-on-one            Now, not only can it be marketed to
                                                  encounters. Their own personal oracles.            porn consumers, but, as many cleverly laid-

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