Bloggasm

A little while ago, I wrote about the history of amateur porn. In its early days, it was a vibrant business for early online sex enthusiasts who managed to make a load of money shooting in their bedrooms, doing things they’d normally be doing for free anyway.

Now that this trend has caught on, it has become a competitive business. Porn webmasters who have come late to the game doing generic mainstream porn are dying out quickly. Only the strongest survive — recruiting help from ivy league graduates and people who were laid off in the dot-com boom. Because credit card companies are wary of porn sites and will drop them at the first sign of trouble, the sites have to become extremely disciplined and make sure they have few customer complaints.

What’s more, the online industry is trying to change the face of porn and how it’s viewed in the public. More specifically, they’re trying to make people realize that BDSM is not a completely horrible thing, that it’s consensual, that it shouldn’t be outlawed for being obscene.

Read this long detailed article in the New York Times Magazine about the trials and tribulations of one such niche website: Kink.com

My favorite paragraph from the article:

Soon, with Wild Bill tied to his column again, Adams coiled leather twine around his testicles and cinched it tautly to the back of a wooden chair, some feet away. She crouched and flicked him with her finger, hard. I saw Cohen turn away, wrenching his face in what looked like the empathetic cringe men make. But it wasn’t. He was yawning.

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