Recession Hard On Porn Stars
This has to be my favorite “brown shoots” story yet:
“How bad is this recession? Even sex doesn’t sell.
That’s the glum assessment of those in the adult entertainment industry, hundreds of whom gathered last week for the annual Cybernet Expo conference in San Francisco. The industry, now a multibillion-dollar online business, has discovered that people just aren’t willing to click-to-pay for vice the way they once did . . .
A lot of companies have been bouncing checks,” performer Annie Cruz said. “Some people have quit the business. A lot of companies have cut back shooting. There are a lot of girls who have not worked in a month.”
Sorry ’bout the headline, it was the tamest bad pun I could come up. (You guys can have fun with it in comments)
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Source:
This recession is so bad not even sex sells
John Boudreau
Mercury News, 06/29/2009 05:26:22 PM
http://www.mercurynews.com/topstories/ci_12716498
June 30th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
If that isn’t the biggest deflationary indicator of them all, I don’t know what is…….
June 30th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
The economy has clearly gone flaccid. Hard to know just when it’ll cum back. I guess the stimulus package wasn’t the money shot we’d hoped for.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
The Industry needs a shot of viagra I guess…
June 30th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Imagine it must have hit them deep and hard
June 30th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Let’s not get into making any comments about “shoots” here…
June 30th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Porn stars out of work…I guess they got laid off.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Recession Puts Porn Industry Flat on It’s Back
June 30th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Ummm…secular trend, Barry. Why should people pay for something they can download anonymously and for free on the internet?
June 30th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Has anyone seen the twins?
June 30th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
The twins….I knew two girls named Bambi and Heather would have trouble at some time or another..
I think they moved to Argentina…
June 30th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Porn Stars Say “Tired of Getting Screwed” by Recession, Recommend “No-Load” Mutual Funds
June 30th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Umm BR I just realized you said “brown shoots”.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Paychecks of porn stars coming up a little short, I guess…
June 30th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Tiny earnings of porn stars revealed…(checkout lane of Kroger…)
June 30th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
“Porn stars not long on (and for) the industry”.
June 30th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
“Cummings, who at 69 is the oldest active performer in the industry, said he is a retired Army lieutenant colonel and once taught at West Point. He has since performed in more than 600 scenes.
“That’s a lot of sex,” he said”
69, really???
June 30th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
“Hard Up For Work, Porn Stars Spread Wings”
I could do this all day
June 30th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
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June 30th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
They may be going down for now, but I’m sure they’ll suck it up and rise to the occasion. One hard ride won’t tear these ladies up. They have stamina, staying power, a character driven by spunk, and a desire to please.
June 30th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Those poor girls will probably end up out on the street having sex for money in order to pay their bills.
Oh, wait a minute. That’s what they were doing before. Nevermind.
June 30th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
They’re Fucked
June 30th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
A recession in porn? This must be hard to swallow.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
What’s the spread between the bid and the assk?
June 30th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Seems as if the business is experiencing some shrinkage.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
I heard they’re counting on Tiny Tim’s pubic/private partnership
June 30th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
I wondered why Tim kept telling congress “this is really, really hard”
June 30th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Wow, the porn industry has gone tits up!
June 30th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Porn star wants RIMM job to trade brown shoots for green.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
One of the main reasons that the Porn industry is in bad shape is that there lots, and lots of FREE Porn (videos) on the internt.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Recession hard on immigrants:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Immigrants-in-US-are-asking-apf-2083101905.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=2&asset=&ccode=
Immigrants who wired their wages home are now asking their families to send them money
“We’ve never seen this before,” said Marlen Miranda, manager of Peerless Travel in Fairview, which runs a money transfer service. “I mean, one or two people might receive money for a special reason, but not this quantity of people.”
June 30th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
I think free sites like youporn have more to do with their problems.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
PORN STARS GETTING SQUEEZED, SOME PULL OUT
June 30th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Finally a topic in my area of expertise and all the good puns are taken. So in order to help out those that maybe smut deficient, here are some classic porno movies you that will give you a good gasp of the industry.
Splatman
A Room With a Spew
Lawrence of Alabia
Nosferatool
On Golden Blonde
Stocks and Blondes
Edward Penishands
And the all time classic
Schindler’s Fist
June 30th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Can’t seem to see as many white shoots?
June 30th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Bruce,
All the money going back to the home countries has always puzzled me. Isn’t this a huge drain? We overbuilt housing, paid illegals to do the work, and a lot the money left the US. Since they won’t use a verification system, some of the stimulus money is vamoosing too. It seems our economy will shrink up to the size of a raisin with all the money gushing out to China ect. I actually talked to a domestic dry waller the other day. I thought they were all long gone.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
China Delays Internet Filter Plan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8126832.stm
With this Obama econo/foreign policy coup, you’d think they be looking to the – wait for it – eXXXport market.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
FUCK porn stars- it’s coming to point- where it is HARDER and HARDER- to care about anyone who just LAYS there and lets themselves get FUCKED by the man.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
@thetanman, you still have a lot to learn, how about
A Beautiful Behind
Womb Raider
Shaving Ryan’s Privates
Glad he ate her
Driving Into Miss Daisy
Riding Miss Daisy
Batman in Robin
Blowjob Impossible
Dyke Hard
Star Whores
Sorest Rump
Gangbangs of New York
How Stella Got Her Tube Packed
In Diana Jones and the Temple Poon
Saturday Night Beaver
Sick Degrees of Penetration
Legally Boned
Throbin Hood (Prince of Beaves)
When Harry Ate Sally
Romancing The Bone
Lord Of The G-Strings
White Men Can’t Hump
Ocean’s 11 inches
American Booty
Pulp Friction
Swollow Hal
Spankenstein
Breast Side Story
Blown in 60 Seconds
Buffy The Vampire Layer
Buttman and Throbbin’
Rambone
Sperms of Enderarment
School of Cock
Free My Willy
Sperminator
June 30th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
super,
Good list. I’m obviously a porno piker. I can’t believe I forgot Sperms of Endearment.
When I was in graduate school a newly arrived Indian student asked me what American movies were good. I told him that if he wanted to understand America to rent Deliverance. I noticed after that he tried to avoid being alone in the same room with me.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Can’t a girl get a bailout?
June 30th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Films to understand America…
a random America is Fucked movie list….
Deliverance ….I love hearing Burt scream like a little girl at the end….
American History X
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Blood Simple…the Coen Brothers first major film….
No Country for Old Men….the Coen Brothers latest major film….
The Big Lebowski…..Just Fucking Because.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
“This is a league game man….”
June 30th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Schindler’s Fist…..
OK…thats some funny shit right there….
June 30th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
@ thetanman
just like many colleges have summer reading list for incoming freshman students, all universities in the South should require all incoming international students to watch Deliverance.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
…..speaking of whores!!
Congrat Mannwich!! It look you finally have a Senator!!
What a joke our political system has become.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
don’t know too much about whores
but, Franken is a funny guy
and, our political system is a joke
June 30th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
super,
I also told him to watch The Godfather to get the immigrant experience.
After he got over the shock of my movie recommendations, he invited me over to his place to eat some southern Indian food. Indian food is pungent, but southern Indian food is in a league of its own. He didn’t explain that the mountain of rice was to dilute the unmitigated culinary fire I was about to experience. I think I went into shock, drooling and sweating. I tried eating it with the same amount of rice he used. By then I was ready for the lemon pickle-a delicacy that was like molten lead. Then he gave me these little pink beads to use to kill the burn. It tasted like Love my Carpet rug deodorant. He had his revenge.
Another time you could get Chinese porno movies from some of the immigrants in town. We got a Chinese graduate student to rent some and we watched them with him. Couldn’t understand a thing, so we kept asking what is she saying. She say more quickly was his reply. There was a scene where the actress was just moaning and we asked again what was she saying. He relied oh she say nothing just ohh ohh. We died laughing. Those were the days.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
turn about is fair play
June 30th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Wes,
As Rod Serling would say “As all consuming as a 4 alarm fire in a bamboo warehouse”. Couldn’t taste anything for a week.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Chris,
No Country for Old Men has so many nuances its amazing. Watch Blow and the two actually mesh pretty well. Its all about cycles, but I know young people are thinking “this movie sucks”.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Anthony Mozillo,
…he would not of paid you back if he did not like you…
Deliverance! – you shit head
dun, dun, dun, dun, dun
June 30th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
@Christopher: I think we were better off with just one.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
reservoir dogs
pulp fiction
supposed to be comin out with a new movie – starring brad pitt? i thought that is what i heard
June 30th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Wes,
I heard they are going to make a movie about Hoover’s Vice President, Charles Curtis. He was 3/4 American Indian and is supposed to be played by Ben Kingsley. That might be interesting.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Wes,
Alvin and I were best buds. He got me to switch to the low temperature electronics stem. For obvious reasons. He always said I looked just like Gerard Depardeau. .
July 1st, 2009 at 12:03 am
Brown chutes not seeing green shoots.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:06 am
Somebody posted this link over at ZH. I was paralyzed laughing.
http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com/
July 1st, 2009 at 12:24 am
There’s only one problem — the “source” is the San Jose Mercury News (motto: “we so bad we even get YESTERDAY’S weather wrong”).
July 1st, 2009 at 12:58 am
“tamest bad pun”? Is TBP going soft on us?
July 1st, 2009 at 4:24 am
“No Country for Old Men” is a pointless, plot-flaw-laden, violent, stupid movie. Perfect simplicity and faux importance for the tools that vote for the Academy Awards.
Rise up.
July 1st, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Of course, the government will come to their rescue with the DVDA program.
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:27 am
So it realy is hard… The economy, I mean.
Searching for a job…and the meaning of life itsel
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:28 am
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