Thursday, February 22, 2007
The Sexerati History of Altporn Crossover
filed under: Erotic Elite by Lux Nightmare
Here’s a dirty little secret: altporn doesn’t pay well.
Or rather: altporn pays fine, if you consider it on the basis of an hourly wage (likely a minimum of $100 for about an hour’s worth of modeling — though the hourly wage decreases if you’re on a site that requires community participation. You’ll be putting in hours and hours of work, and that $100 will still be all you see). However, if you’re trying to make a living, and you’re on a site that’s only paying you for one set a month — well, that $100 isn’t going to go very far.
So what’s a working girl to do?
Model for more than one site, of course. And more than a few models have made use of this trick of the trade, moving from site to site (and sometimes pissing off site owners who claim “exclusivity.”). Oftentimes, a model would get her feet wet by modeling for one of the better known sites (say, Suicide Girls), then move through the ranks, selling sets to any site that would buy them.
On the plus side, this meant more work for models, and more available sets for the perusal of their fans.
On the minus side, this meant that many an altporn site featured a pretty familiar stable of faces (and bodies), with only the different layouts and logos to remind you that you’d left, say, Manic Jane in favor of EroticBPM.
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Is this really much of a secret? Also, I think many of the trends you cite were more common a couple years ago. ManicJane hasn’t been active in any sense for over a year, and BA and SG are paying significantly higher rates and not crossing over nearly as many models to other sites as they used to. There are a lot more sites now as well who are working in the “genre” (or whatever you call it), although many are far less indie than the ones you discuss here.
Of course, maybe you meant this to be a historical article, but the tense starts in present and jumps to past halfway through, so I can’t really tell.
It is a historical piece, yes.
Hence the “Sexerati History” in the title.
When you talk about SG and BA now, you’re not really talking about altporn: altporn doesn’t exist anymore. Altporn pretty much crashed in 2004 — and what exists now is an entirely different beast. I don’t know what it should be called, but it’s certainly not the world I worked in years ago.
So you’d want to have said “altporn *paid* fine…”
I don’t think I’m *that* dense for finding it a little confusing.
What is it now? I dunno either. Not something that’s terribly interesting, I think.
On another note, I’m glad you’re still doing creative stuff. The pieces on your trip to India were very interesting.