Recession May Limit Market for Twink Awakening 75

HN-PornNotRecessionProofTH.jpgWe may have been hoodwinked into believing a lot of people were spending their economic stimulus package dollars on porn, but still we felt confident that the porn industry would weather the current economic crisis just fine. Not so, says a new piece in Wired. According to AVN founder Paul Fishbein and Steve Orenstein of Wicked Pictures, sales are way down. It seems porn purveyors are facing a host of obstacles not only related to soft consumer spending; the industry also faces increased oil-related production costs, stiff  competition from free and amateur content on the internet and a glut of product overall.

With a number of the major gay studios struggling and smaller studios being gobbled up by larger ones, we're less likely to see as many of the niche and mom-and-pop studios churning out new titles each week as we did earlier in the decade. This is sad, but we're not too sad: does  My Anal Exam Was Awesome really need a sequel?

(Of course it does.)


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