Weekend Poll: What Are Your Porn Spending Habits?

I track when readers of this blog click outgoing links to porn membership sites, and I also track how many of them are then buying memberships. I’m watching you!

Not surprisingly, the number of clicks on outgoing links dwarfs the number of memberships actually purchased on sites like SeanCody.com or Men.com, and this is the norm on any blog that refers traffic to any advertiser or affiliate. So my question is, whether or not you heard about it here or somewhere else, do you ever buy gay porn?

So many of you leave such impassioned comments and have such strong opinions, but are you even paying for the things you seem to care about so much? Or, are you just passing judgment based on the trailers and the photos (not that there’s anything wrong with that)?

I’m doing a non-scientific survey and would love to know what you have to say:

 

 

 
 

31 thoughts on “Weekend Poll: What Are Your Porn Spending Habits?”

  1. Another factor I look at when deciding on a membership is if it’s a site, like Men.com, that gives you access to multiple sites for the price of one subscription.

  2. I wish that there was more detail in the “Have you ever downloaded porn illegally” question. I did, but it was like 20 years ago and I wouldn’t do it again (i rented movies from a store and made copies on my VHS). I’m strongly against Piracy, but haven’t always been so.

  3. And then there are those of us who are less interested in buying shiny new porn from online producers and would rather have back catalog/out-of-print titles from the seventies and early eighties, when the gay-for-pay guys were as numerous as the straight-for-pay players (Jack Wrangler did a lot more gay porn than straight, but he did plenty of straight porn before retiring and marrying that old broad and taking to directing musical theater, R.J. Reynbolds brought his “boyfriend” J.W. King into sharing chicks, and there was so much gay crossover into vadge in the mid-eighties that it made my head spin).

    Really, Bijou Sales is about it for me, because I’m an old bitch, and save for Paul Wagner and Colby Keller, unless Joe Gage is making it (and I feel a little ashamed about the heteronormative bent to most of Joe Gage’s films, dating all the way back to the Working Man trilogy), it’s all sterile and a bit boring to me. Even the current crop of fetish stuff feels a bit passionless.

  4. I haven’t been convinced yet to spend money on any other pricing model than “buy minutes”. That approach seems much more straightforward to me than per-month type memberships, and I can control the price-per-minute according to where I perceive the value point.

  5. i would become a member of many sites if i could download without problems and if their men are hot enuff (read kiss) and i HATE it when they automatically rebill you, if the site is good enuff with enuff updates i will rebill myself without any problem

  6. I pay for my porn; principally Randy Blue and Cockyboys; though I do pay for Corbin Fisher, Sean Cody, Chaosmen and a few others from time to time (even Brazzers). But I wish everyone would adopt a model similar to CF Select. I buy a scene every now and then from them and though I may have spent as much (if not more) than what I would pay for a monthly subscription; I am getting what I WANT. An Itunes for porn would be amazing and probably just as popular.

    And seriously folks, pay for your porn. Why? If you’re a real fan, you want your favorites to actually still be able to receive a consistent paycheck that keeps them coming back. And if you vote with your dollars, you help create an atmosphere where the voice of the fans actually matter again. Your bitching actually holds a little more weight when you’re a paying customer.

  7. I’m definitely with Nick and Truewords on this one. I like to be able to download and keep the content from the porn sites. And as mentioned there is no need to keep a continuous membership for more than a month. Just come back to the site once a year (maybe longer) and get a month membership just to download all of the content you don’t have.

    Also there are so many sites out there that let you watch free porn through streaming you can pretty much catch a lot of the new stuff on those sites without having to shell out a dime.

  8. I currently subscribe to Sean Cody, Corbin Fisher, Broke Straight Boys and College Dudes, In the past I also subscribed to Randy Blue and Bel Ami and Alain Lamas. I jusy love all the hot porn models.

  9. I like paying for quality. BelAmi is my favourite, I keep coming back. Have tried Sean Cody and Lucas. Just like any form of entertainment, people should change their mindset and pay for it. You want quality you need to pay.

  10. I stick with nymmedia (and have used other DVD-by-mail services as well) and just rent the DVDs like Netflix for porn – and then yes, tend to rip out my favorite scenes (or scene, singular, in most movies) and then convert them to individual mp4 scenes for later viewing on AppleTV.

    I’ll join pay sites occasionally ONLY if they offer their videos in mp4, but see no reason to keep a going membership. Timtales and ChaosMen are favorites. I detest badly produced bullshit porn where the focus is more on simply hiring hot guys rather than actually capturing hot sex (I’m looking at you, MEN.com).

    The last time I had a SeanCody membership was around 2004-5 when I was obsessed with Patrick and you could still download the videos DRM-free and save them – I stopped going there the minute they started requiring viewing only through Windows Media Player and put restrictions on and haven’t been back since.

  11. These are exactly the results I expected. A friend who is a member of the #LOGP (ladies of gay porn) that we’re never supposed to speak a harsh word about has told me many times that one person buys a membership and everyone uses it. How are the studios (not to mention the models) supposed to survive when die-hard fans cheat the content producers. I support several studios and will continue to. It’s only fair to pay for porn / WHETHER THAT MAKES ME A MORON OR NOT!

    1. the truth I could stand for a few of these numerous sites to disappear…so if they go out of business I am all for it to create sort of the “Walmart” or “Costco” of porn…that way the consumer can have one stop shopping for porn and all of these numerous performers can stop reinventing themselves from one site after another one has extinguished their contract…

  12. The use of DRM is the most important factor for me. I want to keep what I pay for if I like something. If it’s streaming-only or infected with DRM, forget it.

    1. Agreed, it is BEST to wait and grab a subscription from your favorite porn site for a month (or less if allowed) and download EVERYTHING that you desire…go to Costco and buy an external hard-drive I picked up a 2TB drive for $99.00 a few months ago to store things there….I wait another year or two and do it again…paying month to month is not what I would ever do…I would rather fund my Roth IRA or spend it on a good meal with friends

  13. I go to different sites and pick up memberships on a monthly basis (I like variety). The one thing that I most like about videos is amateur vidz. That’s why I like going to xTube a lot. The studios think we need these models with their great hair, great bodies and sets but I just want to see 2 people meeting up for the first time and having sex. You really can’t beat the passion in some of these amateur videos with anything that gets churned out tirelessly from the major porn sites. Basically I like the stuff that doesn’t look faked too bad. I don’t watch European studios at all because of how bad some of them are at having sex (with a moan or a groan there…but you can tell they want to be somewhere else). It’s kind of sad too because the studios could do so much with their models and scenes if they just thought “outside the box” instead of creating cookie cutter Mcdonald’s fast food productions and slamming them out one right after another.

    1. I feel that way about Belami…they crank out the same scene over and over again…BORING…

      Many of the models don’t speak English so the moaning gets old really fast and lack of deep anal insertion

  14. on the question What’s The Most Important Factor In Determining Whether Or Not You Join A Porn Membership Site you should have included DMR free and chemistry of there scene

  15. I rotate subscriptions every few months, depending on which sites have my favorites back for more scenes or not.

  16. I am a month-to-monther but the number one reason I won’t go back to a site after paying is when they don’t update reliably. Again, multiple answers would have allowed me to choose a more accurate (IMHO) picture of my buying habits. Also, I am a huge timtales fan.

    1. well expect a lot of shitty porn when you illegally download everything and then all the companies go out of business and all you’re left with is shitty iphone porn from nasty old men. You asshole!

      1. How sad, do you believe everything you read on this porn blog? Michael got a rise out of you and you didn’t even have to pay. Gullible idiot.

    2. Only morons think they can get something for nothing and never have the quality they want.

      Why do you think porn stars are in the business, for fun? How about the studios, you think they’re charities?

      These are BUSINESSES, and if a business is constantly being robbed the income goes down, businesses close, models leave the industry, quality suffers and then you end up jerking off over 60 year old chicks on their webcam.

      Seriously guys, kids who think the internet is free and everything on it is theirs for the taking are fucking retards. Piracy in the adult business is already affecting standards, and if people want the quality and content to continue the way it is – and improve with technology – they have to put their hands in their pockets and actually pay for it.

      I long for the day when studios catch up to pirates and start fighting back, flooding the sharing sites with fake content. That’s one thing these businesses should be doing and haven’t. People want to steal everything they produce, they should be aggressively fighting back and wasting their time with every download, and discrediting all the sharing sites with crap along the way.

      As for this survey, personally I think it’s a little weak. A lot of those who do steal content don’t call it “illegal”, they think they have the “right” to download everything for free.

      And the sites I am a member of I choose based on the action and the guys. How can you ask why people are members of the site without giving the action or niche of the site as an option?

      1. Who cares….I like porn,it’s fun,but I don’t need it.If it disappeared it wouldn’t matter.I don’t buy porn because it’s a waste of money.

    3. I tend to agree with you…but alas I am in the minority…there is enough porn out there and the constant quest of “the new fresh face” is somewhat daunting…most popular studios such as Sean Cody, CorbinFisher, BelAmi, etc…recycle the same performers so therefore I avoid paying a month to month fee when they lack original casting that includes diversity and different scenery…when the studios do this I don’t care who they pair them with it is the same…

      For example: the latest scene from SeanCody with Curtis:

      1. yes he deep throats dick = seen it

      2. yes he gets fucked and loves it = seen it

      3. yes the other model and him share some cum = seen it

      4. yes they compare penis sizes = seen it

      5. yes they are both “straight” = seen it

      ALL OF THAT TRANSLATES INTO = NOT PAYING FOR IT!!

      1. I def agree with your post and i hope these studio heads are listening..Sean Cody is a nice site i subscribe to but yes they go from one room on the set to another..no creativity or scenery change, same goes for Corbin Fisher..which is odd because there earlier stuff featured out door settings etc…Bel Ami however do change scenery, however there issue is using they same models over and over, now they believe that Mick Lovell dude will carry the whole site…i do subscribe but every couple of months so as to give them time to upload enough scenes!

  17. Only want to say that, if i didn’t spend any money this year on porn (yet) is because i don’t have a job and can’t afford it.

    The moment i have a job? i will pay for that cockyboys membership.

  18. Too bad we can’t choose multiple answers. While I am a full time subscriber to Corbin Fisher, I have been known to dabble in month to month. I personally like personable people. Besides CF, I like CockyBoys, (love them) and AustinZane because I adore Zane. I also am looking forward to guysinsweatpants.com, again because of Anthony & Austin.

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