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I guess what I’m saying is that the ancient call for “porn that was more like movies” — which I, too, would enjoy — might not be an economic winner, either — a lot of people would like to see it, but I’m not sure if enough people would actually pay for it, especially in hard times.

I don’t think you’re quite correct that the downturn in the porn business is entirely recessionary — that probably plays a part, but there appears to be a substantial structural component, as well. I do expect things will get better when the economy improves, but just as the record companies will never again see album sales like they saw before the invention of the .mp3 file, I don’t think online porn subscriptions will ever again return to the levels they were at before the tube sites and person-to-person file sharing came along.

Free porn has always existed and smart producers encourage it up to a point. That’s why there are so many sites on the internet such as Red’s Realm and xtube. Companies such as Kink freely give them short form videos – it’s their best form of advertising.

Just wait another year or two and spending will return.

You’re wrong about Kink.com’s Sex and Submission being the first to mix sex and bondage however. Dead wrong.
PD started whipping out his “little man”, causiously at first – blowjobs with condom’s only – sometime around 2002 if I remember. I’m too lazy to look it up but I was a charter member of Insex and PD pioneered pretty much everything in BDSM.

Peter Ackworth has done an amazing job of building Kink.com – he is far and away a better businessman that PD. But PD was the pioneer. He did water bondage in a big way on Insex – and Kink copied it. He did metal bondage in a big way – and Kink copied it. He did sex in bondage years before – and Kink copied it. He did machine sex and Kink copied it.
PD brought into the business and trained many of the Kink producers including Matt Williams and Claire Adams – and he inspired the ones who didn’t directly work for him at some point.
He gave many models their introduction to the industry including Loreli Lee, Wenona, Moonshine, Madison Young, Seven, Cowgirl, Molly Mathews, Kali, Jenny Lee, and many other Kink.com models.

Kink has done more with fetishes I’m not personally interested in – such as Femdom, butt sex, etc. But in BDSM web sites – PD is the uncontested founder of the industry.

If you haven’t seen the documentary on PD and Insex called “Graphic Sexual Horror” which is available on Amazon – you must see it. In the documentary, people such as Ackworth, Adams and Matthews openly acknowledge, on camera, that PD and Insex was the pioneer and the inspiration for their work.