Heh… this is interesting:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 … l-bailout/
Do you think they’ll help?
Honestly I think it’s Flynt just giving his own opinion of the bailouts: porn (although not necessarily eroge) is one of the best businesses markets to withstand the credit crunch, since many banks weren’t investing to them in the first place (i.e. out of pocket productions).
But the call has gone out! SAVE THE PORN!!! 8)
Actually, porn is in a LOT of trouble. Has been for a while. The internet has destroyed the classic money streams, forcing them to look into other things (for instance, more High End/High Production items— the ladies love those pornos, so they are still buying them like mad. The guys can just go on the internet, and get 500 snaps of the basic look they like with little more then a few clicks and for free). So the old business model for porno is dead or dieing— and Flynt has not apparently had much luck adapting very profitably to the new porno world. Or so I’ve occasionally read when looking through internet effects on modern businesses.
I think it’s how you look at the porn industry. VHS and DVD sales are definitely dying: however the online download market is thriving quite well. Yes, there are hundreds of “free porn” pirate sites out there: but the vast majority are virus ridden or consist of low quality clips. There’s quite a number of legal pay sites (Videobox for example), that provide high quality and virus free video for less than $20 a month with a worldwide customer base (rumor has it Videobox rakes in millions, and pays mere dollars for intrastructure costs). Also the production costs to make porn, thanks to all the advances in camera prices dropping and the abundance of video editing software on PC, has dropped to the sound of only a few thousand dollars.
What we’ve seen is the death of “mega million” porn stars with fancy fake boob jobs. It’s now the reign of “nameless starlets” who get paid a few thousands dollars an hour for a shot or two. Not to say we won’t have popular porn actresses… but instead of having a Asia Carrera (plastic overkill and big paycheck), we now have Evelyn Lin (natural beauty and middle class lifestyle).
Porn isn’t in danger of dying like the auto industry: porn is merely evolving to a new form. Flynt is quite loaded, and it’s not like he has much time left on this Earth anyways. However anyone trying to repeat the same steps Flynt took to forge his porno empire, is doomed to fail miserably.
For decades, porn tried to be like Hollywood: high priced budgets and expensive shooting locations. For a short time it worked. But honestly: shooting a sex scene in some undecorated bedroom gets the same amount of customers as those extravagant pirate movies. Difference is, that “Amateurs Gone Wild” (price tag $25,000) makes a bigger turn around than “Horny Pirates of the Caribbean” (price tag of $500,000 with the stars getting a cut from the profits).
So well put I couldn’t agree more, 
I doubt they’d bail him out but what do I know~
Read the brief on Huffington Post, then heard it today on NPR’s Day to Day:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor … d=99120534
I think it’s half truth, half publicity stunt. I guess Who’s Nailin’ Paylin? didn’t turn out to be the huge revenue stream that Hustler had hoped. Could Sarah Palin be the anti-Viagra, actually dispelling the male erection?
But why the hell is Joe Francis considered a pr0n producer? All he films is just drunken female coeds flashing their titties on spring breaks. It’s for teenagers who don’t have access to pr0n from internet due to filters or people who live in the southern states that have archaic anti-pr0n laws.
Joe Francis is porn because he does soft core porn. He’s done tons of tv spots as a talking head, so he’s one of the few “known” porn producers to the public.
Definately a publicity stunt, but if the government takes over their operations, who cares? Maybe they can make sex ed videos for the schools under Congressional direction.