When a bunch of chimps that didn't know how to make good porn but where able to do it because technology allowed them to do cheaply and easily it was pretty much the downfall of it. It created a situation where everybody tried to outdo each other in nastiness, and it created an even bigger mockery of itself than it already was. Of course with everything so saturated with garbage it's going to take a long time for it to ever get better, if ever. Who knows maybe when a lot of people go under because porn is doing so bad financially it will allow the cream to rise to the top again and for most of the losers have their asses sent packing. It might take a lot of time, but this might be a good point to turn it back around.
I do think it's not just about market forces anymore. With all the people that complain about it and with all the normal men out there that don't like that crap I have a hard time feeling everybody likes that stuff so that's the main reason they produce it. Some people on here are saying that if people don't like it they shouldn't buy it, but they fail to realize that there just isn't really anything good to buy anymore. If there is, it's a rare thing indeed. If it exist at all it’s usually lesser well known, often doesn't have as good production quality, and often doesn’t always have a lot of the good stars in it. It's not like there is a vast quantity of good stuff or hardly any at all that the people that don't like that crap can go to. It's kind of hard for something to outsell something else when it barely exist in the first place. It's like porn has fallen into a mindset that that's what they must make and a THIS IS WHAT WE THINK IS GOOD, YOU WILL LIKE IT OR ELSE mentality. Out of most industries out there, maybe almost all of them, porn is a lot more detached from reality and how normal people think than anything else.
There are no more “stars” of porn. No company wants to take time to do it right. In a long time, I haven’t seen any of them take the time or effort to promote their people like they should. They make no effort to have their performers appeal to the general masses of people that mike like erotic stuff, or to put them in a good light. They don’t try to make productions that everybody involved would enjoy doing let alone (gasp) might even be proud of. They make no effort to put any real eroticism or sensualist in it. They don’t treat performers like people or have them act like actual people might in their scenes. Nobody wants to make an effort to try to make this a viable career for any of the performers for any good length of time like in the past. Everybody just wants the quickest easiest money and that’s it.
What people also need to keep in mind is that with hardcore performers, with the exception of a very small handful of the very very top women, they have very little leverage in the industry. That was true even in porn’s best time. A lot of them are lead to believe that porn will lead to success that it almost certainly won't. A lot of them are barely mature young woman that don't have the wisdom or intelligence needed to make smart decisions or to keep themselves from being exploited, and there are a lot of people in porn willing to exploit anybody or anything. The actresses in porn generally don't make as much money as people think and some of them do it out desperation or they have little alternative.
Technically, they don't have to do anything (With the exception of maybe some that have some abusing boyfriend or pimp or something like that.), they don't have somebody sticking a gun to their head, but for the vast majority of them if they start making restricting demands, or get the “difficult” label that some producers just feels like giving for them because the woman didn’t do what they wanted they can vary easily be replaced and told to hit the door and take their careers with them. That is mostly after they have irrevocably already altered their lives by getting into it in the first place. Nobody is going to stick by them, and the workers in porn never stick together. Even years and years ago there were only a small portion of the pornstars that had any real influence and leverage about how they could operate their careers and stay in the industry and work, now it's even that much harder. If your a man that performs in porn you have no power at all unless you produce stuff or have friends that do. If a man, for example, didn't want to perform anal on a women they would probably be laughed out of the industry and shouldn't even bother. So it's not as simple as blaming the performers because they are willing to do it, although they do bear some responsibility. For a lot of them they have to choose between the crappy stuff and the end of their careers.
Porn of years ago had it flaws, but I'm also one of those people worried about young adults watching this crap and it slowly getting into our culture that this is the actual way they are supposed to be or are supposed to treat other people. I'm not saying it should be illegal, but I worry about it's effects, especially without people there to tell them their a bunch of idiots if they get off on that or think they should ever act that way. Porn the way it is today has turned sex into a joke. Another side effect is that the performes in it aren't as good looking or as good performing as they used to be. This is the most lackluster time in porn since before it's golden age. I'm sure a lot of the attractive women that might have though of performing and would have been all right with doing it the way porn used to be decided it wasn't worth it, not that I can blaim them, and we never got to see those people in the first place. The stars of the past are still remembered. They were real stars. I know about most of them from before I even started watching. In ten or twenty years do you think anybody is going to remember almost anybody from this era or think of them and their performances fondly or even give a damn about it at all?
