As a complementary article to yesterday’s post on the failed UK porn verification system, may I direct your attention to this article – Perverts, It’s Time For Unity. It was written by Eris Martinet back in 2017 when the bill was originally being proposed. Obviously in some aspects it’s a little out of date, but its basic point is a good one.
When a man buys femdom from the big companies, he is eventually paying men. When he watches on PornHub for free, he is supporting a corporation ran by men.
Mindgeek is the company behind sites like Pornhub, RedTube and YouPorn. It was founded and run by a bunch of guys who have stolen and profited from the work of female performers. They’re a parasite on the adult industry and every click you give them makes them fatter.
Obviously I’m not saying you should be able to trace the production history of every porn clip and image you consume. There’s inevitably a wide variety of people involved between the production set and your laptop screen. But if you regularly consume femdom porn, then it’s very easy to find a lot of quality content being sold by the women who created it. Just search for a domme or producer you like and follow their site or social media links to their clips. You don’t have to buy everything you watch, but at least buy or subscribe to something. Be a net positive to the femdom creators out there.
This is Eris Martinet, taken from her twitter feed. I’d like to think this disapproving look is for everyone who doesn’t contribute back to Femdom content creators. You can find her own clips for sale here and here.
Your point is a good one, and nothing that follows is meant to suggest that paying for your independent porn isn’t the way to go. But even most of the best avenues for independent producers take fairly large cuts. Most of those companies are run by men.
And a big clips site recently announced a partnership with MindGeek. I don’t know anything about the deal, and it’s probably fine, but it shows that you can’t get away from them so easily.
Yes, the various stores to take what seems like an unnecessarily large cut of the profits. But I’d rather have 50% go to the domme who filmed the clip rather than 0% from a stolen copy.
I think the big problem is actually the credit card companies. The technology for running a clips store is simple. If the market was sufficiently fluid and transparent, then it’d naturally shift a fair distribution of the money. But connecting porn to payment processing always seems to introduce distortion into the market.
-paltego
Provided individuals are not profiting from things like exploitation, coercion or thievery, the immutable characteristics of the individuals behind the scenes are irrelevant to me. I celebrate their efforts for providing a service others enjoy and can use.
Independent producers are most welcome and the more the merrier! And there has never before been less barriers for this.
Its a fair point to acknowledging by putting your money where your mouth is, so to say, and supporting that which you value ensures more of that commodity becomes available.
I’m certainly not suggesting that one should have to check the gender of everyone in their porn delivery path before it can be enjoyed. However, a world where all the content (pretty much be definition) is produced by women but the majority of the profits banked by men does seem somewhat fucked up. I would suggest that when it comes to the various tube sites, that thievery is mostly what is going on. Or at least is how they got to their current position.
I’d also say that it’s not true that there has never been less barriers to it. 2000 through to 2010 was probably the golden time for online porn production. A point when credit card processing was making it possible to buy stuff online and bandwidth was high enough for video delivery, but before the various free streaming sites took over and before the payment processing companies started making life hard for content producers. If you follow porn producer social media you’ll see there’s a lot of current issues around advertising (most social media companies hate porn) and payments (ditto for credit card companies).
Glad you’re with me on the buying it however! No money definitely means no professional production.
-paltego