As you guys know, I started this blog just for the love of gay porn. But I’m just an outsider, so I called Queer Me Now! “Gay Porn Blog from Consumer’s Point of View”

That’s why I’m so excite to read articles from someone “gay porn insider” from time to time that give me a whole new perspective about this industry.

I just found this article on a blog called Naked Came I (Nakedcamei.blogspot.com) by Tim. It’s quite a long essay and I don’t know how accurate it is but it’s very informative and give a whole new perspective about gay porn industry.

Quote from this essay…

“Few of the studios make it easy to access content online. Bel Ami spends about $75,000 on a film. Its duplicating costs are minimal, and it engages in almost no advertising or marketing. Bel Ami easily makes that budget back on American sales alone: “Lukas In Love” sold more than 2,500 copies at $60 a pop, netting $150,000 in gross revenues. It sold another 2,500 copies at retail (through retailers and to video stores), netting another $75,000 in gross revenues.”

“Titan Media’s approach has been to sue everyone (even fans) who put even the slightest bit of the studio’s content online in any format whatsoever. Even the record companies and movie studios have largely abandoned that strategy.”

“One of the founders of a B-list gay porn studio was ousted recently after the new owners discovered he’d been embezzling company funds. Chi Chi LaRue has talked at length in his autobiography about the amount of cocaine he snorted. Do you think the funds for those drugs came from a trust fund? An inheritance? A McDonald’s franchise he ran on the side? No: They came because LaRue paid himself a hefty salary for each film he did, and that salary was used to pay for drugs (not good porn). Indeed, it’s standard gay porn industry practice for a studio to say to a director, “I’ll pay you $50,000 to deliver a film.” No studio (to my knowledge) every says, “I’ll pay you $5,000 to deliver a film, and you spend $45,000 on sets, performers, editing, and so on.” What usually occurs is that directors skimp on performer pay, sets, cinematography, editing, and more in order to pay themselves a fatter salary.”

“The problem is that gay porn doesn’t pay well at all. Salaries for performers, for example, have not risen at all since the early 1990s. (They remain stuck at about $1,000 a film.) That’s a pay cut of nearly 40 percent. Worse, you find that gay porn studios hire anyone who walks through the door. Chad Donovan, for example, has no college degree and no training. Yet, he has been director of production at three adult film studios. Why? Having a 9″ penis, apparently.”

Read the whole article at Naked Came I Blog

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