Down The Rabbit Hole: Porn is Dead

Lately, we keep hearing and reading this sentiment over and over: “I think one day, porn is just going to go away. Porn is dead.” Whoa… that’s a pretty heavy statement. And if I were to guess what all of this nervous, hand-wringing is about, I’d say it’s because two things are happening in our gay porn world at the same time;

PROBLEM ONE:
Of course, most know about Facebook’s, Instragram’s or heck, even Pinterest’s no tolerance for boners… and yes, most recently Vine’s “no sexy-time” rule (along with rumors about Tumblr too!) are preventing us from collecting and sharing porn socially. In other words, porn, particularly copyrighted porn images are not the content these sites want on their servers—and they’re desperately trying to scrub these services clean. Realizing that you can’t even post an all-access naked photo of yourself on Grindr or Scruff apps, makes you realize how uptight we are about nudity and sex. So yes, porn (as nakedness) is being hunted and “shamed” digitally more than ever.
PROBLEM TWO:
The other problem is what the entire entertainment industry is going through, but simply put— the money isn’t what it used to be in the business of making porn. Quite bluntly, the old studios are consolidating and churning out scenes but the business model still doesn’t seem to be working like it used. Oh trust us, we’re excited when there is something fresh and new, amazingly hot guys and good ol’ fashioned bone-making porn being shared, but things are looking haggard the closer you look and yep, you can’t help but wonder what path these studios are on if things don’t change.

So here’s the thing: I don’t see it as such a bleak thing. In fact, I actually think porn is alive and well and there are some exciting things that about to happen, just not in the way that anyone is going after right now. What do I mean? Read on…

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