porn business

[nycjacksparrow]

anyone know how to start a porn business?

 

[Nasty_Deeds]

anyone know how to start a porn business?

You start a porn business like you start any business. First you need a business plan; then investment capital; a tax number, (likely both federal and state), and in most cities, a business license. Then you produce and market a product or service. The porn business is no different than any other business.

 

[TypicalDeviant]

anyone know how to start a porn business?

Yes, someone does know.

 

[SweetErika]

If you can't be bothered to write more than an eight word question, most people won't bother giving you a serious, well thought-out response. Give more detailed info and ask more specific questions, and you'll likely get far better replies.

For instance, what type of porn do you want to do? The market is pretty saturated, so unless you're offering something different and better than what's already out there, you shouldn't quit your day job. So, what's going to be your niche, angle or value proposition?

 

[LordOfHell]

I'm interested in this question, because a story I'm writing will go into it. So, if I may hijack the OP's thread for a sec:

1) It would start out just with him making a site of him and his mom getting it on. Due to the relative scarcity of real incest online, I was thinking they'd get quite a few hits from this.

2) His other lover is a decent porn actress who's worked in it for 8 years. In the context of the story, she's fairly popular and looks something like Emily Rachel Dawson. How can he use her to get some connections in the porn business? (Producers, directors, etc.)

3) Eventually, it's going to be revealed that he has over $60 million in the bank that he's never even touched (kind of an inheritence). When he decides that he wants to go into the porn business for real, I was going to have him buy the company his porn gf works for and begin producing some high-production porn, focusing on BDSM and incest, but expanding to lots of other genres.

That's what I've got for a start. Anyone mind giving a little insight?

 

[silverwhisper]

if you're really interested, check out the blank manual thread. it's stickied at the top of this forum. it's basically an index of popular questions that've been answered in lit.

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[Nasty_Deeds]

I'm interested in this question, because a story I'm writing will go into it. So, if I may hijack the OP's thread for a sec:

1) It would start out just with him making a site of him and his mom getting it on. Due to the relative scarcity of real incest online, I was thinking they'd get quite a few hits from this.

2) His other lover is a decent porn actress who's worked in it for 8 years. In the context of the story, she's fairly popular and looks something like Emily Rachel Dawson. How can he use her to get some connections in the porn business? (Producers, directors, etc.)

3) Eventually, it's going to be revealed that he has over $60 million in the bank that he's never even touched (kind of an inheritence). When he decides that he wants to go into the porn business for real, I was going to have him buy the company his porn gf works for and begin producing some high-production porn, focusing on BDSM and incest, but expanding to lots of other genres.

That's what I've got for a start. Anyone mind giving a little insight?

In fiction, a good story doesn’t depend as much on the perfect story line, as it does on how you develop the characters. The characters, (particularly the main character), has to be both interesting and believable.

In the synopsis you give, there are some questions you need to answer. For one, you need to explain where the main character got the $60,000,000, why he has never touched it, and why he has suddenly decided to use it now. This may seem obvious to you, but not so obvious to the reader. The explanation doesn’t have to be long, but it does appear to be integral to the identity of the main character.

Also another point, he doesn’t need to use his lover to make connections with directors and producers; with $60,000,000, directors and producers will seek him out. With that much money, he is going to be a very popular person in the porn industry; directors and producers are looking for work, investors aren't. The main character using his lover, (or women), for his own ends can make a story interesting, but in this case, perhaps you need to find a different way for him to use women. Readers love to hate a man who uses or abuses women.

To be interesting, the main character, (or any character), can be loved or hated, but either way, in the climax of the story, he needs to receive his just reward. If he is loved or envied by the reader, he should have something good happen to him, (or someone close to him that he can be given credit for). If he is hated, he should have to pay a price. Also, depending on your personal style of writing, dark irony can make a story more intriguing.

How you write also depends on who or what you are writing the story for. If you are writing a short story for something like Literotica, most stories published here are short, basal and to the point. In the case of Literotica, developing the character(s) is not as important as arousing the reader sexually. If you are writing a screen play, short story or full length novel, interesting characters are more important.

 

[Bottomlover]

First, do your homework. I'd put my money and time into something else. The "porn business" has taken quite a hit from the free content on the -Tube sites. There just isn't a lot of money in it right now.

 

[LordOfHell]

Nasty (or do you prefer "Deeds"), thanks for the reply. If you have some time, I'll address a few of the points you made.

In fiction, a good story doesn’t depend as much on the perfect story line, as it does on how you develop the characters. The characters, (particularly the main character), has to be both interesting and believable.

The way I write usually involves lots of research and discovering where I can straddle the golden line between fantasy and believability. I want my readers to be entertained, first and foremost, but I also like writing characters they can believe in or relate to. So, that is why I ask these questions.

In the synopsis you give, there are some questions you need to answer. For one, you need to explain where the main character got the $60,000,000, why he has never touched it, and why he has suddenly decided to use it now. This may seem obvious to you, but not so obvious to the reader. The explanation doesn’t have to be long, but it does appear to be integral to the identity of the main character.

That much has already been set up in the chapters I've posted so far. His father died when he was 8 years old and his mother won a civil suit which netted 2.3 mil from the airline. She placed the money in savings and allowed it to accrue interest, vowing to not touch it or let anyone know if it until her son started his career. Over time, that 2.3 million has grown to 60 million, and she has kept her promise to not disturb a dime of it.

Also another point, he doesn’t need to use his lover to make connections with directors and producers; with $60,000,000, directors and producers will seek him out. With that much money, he is going to be a very popular person in the porn industry; directors and producers are looking for work, investors aren't. The main character using his lover, (or women), for his own ends can make a story interesting, but in this case, perhaps you need to find a different way for him to use women. Readers love to hate a man who uses or abuses women.

I wasn't intending for him to use her. In fact, she's far more manipulative and crafty than he is, although she does have a soft spot for the guy. Really, it's kind of like a business arrangement, in addition to the sexual relationship they already had. She's a very smart, savvy woman who not only enjoys what she does for a living, but likes making money for it. Helping him in this regard would be mutually beneficial to both of them.

To be interesting, the main character, (or any character), can be loved or hated, but either way, in the climax of the story, he needs to receive his just reward. If he is loved or envied by the reader, he should have something good happen to him, (or someone close to him that he can be given credit for). If he is hated, he should have to pay a price. Also, depending on your personal style of writing, dark irony can make a story more intriguing.

Overall, I think he's going to be a sympathetic guy with a bit of moral ambiguity, so I'll leave it up to the readers to decide how they feel about him.

How you write also depends on who or what you are writing the story for. If you are writing a short story for something like Literotica, most stories published here are short, basal and to the point. In the case of Literotica, developing the character(s) is not as important as arousing the reader sexually. If you are writing a screen play, short story or full length novel, interesting characters are more important.

I'm writing this story purely for the joy of it at the moment, although I'm trying to make it as good as I possibly can in the meantime. Any help or suggestions are welcome and appreciated, as long as it's constructive.

Thanks for your time.

 

[Nasty_Deeds]

I'm writing this story purely for the joy of it at the moment, although I'm trying to make it as good as I possibly can in the meantime. Any help or suggestions are welcome and appreciated, as long as it's constructive.

Writing is more of a hobby for me than anything else, but one of the things I never do, is show what I have written publically until I am completely finished. It’s not unusual to be half way through a story, only to discover a much more interesting story line, and have to rewrite major portions of what I have already written. That’s hard to do when part of it has already been published.

If you are just learning to write; remember, if you got it published and people read it, (regardless of their reaction), it was a success. Unlike many endeavors, writers learn from their successes, rather than their mistakes. When you get something published, (even on a free place like Literotica), and you re-read your work, you will find something you could have done better, and that something better becomes part of your next work. When you come to the point in your life where you have written the perfect story, what else is left?

I only have a couple of thoughts about what you have posted in this thread. One, which is the main character, the man with the $60,000,000, or the women he is involved with? He sounds a bit boring, but she sounds absolutely fascinating.

Letting my, (deviate), imagination loose for a bit, I can see a story line here, which may or may not help you. I can see the man with the $60,000,000 as a secret investor, and his girlfriend, (the aging porn star), as a woman who has been used, and sometimes abused, by the porn industry, and now she wants revenge by building her own porn empire at the expense of the porn moguls who took advantage if her.

One of the things she has learned during her time as a porn star is how to manipulate men, and now she uses this skill to get what she wants. I can see a greedy porn mogul on a working vacation, (in a third world country like Mexico, the Philippines, Thailand, etc), looking to lure new, younger talent into the business. He unexpectedly, (and all too convenient), runs into the porn star. After a few friendly drinks, she suggests that he accompany her to a private party she knows about. He agrees, and it turns out to be the most erotic, deviate party he has ever imagined.

Feeling pretty good about himself as he returns to his office in Hollywood, (or where ever), he finds an unmarked, manila envelope on his desk containing a video of the party. Sitting behind his expensive hardwood desk in his over-stuffed swivel chair, smiling, laughing, reliving the party in his mind, until a close-up of his cock stuck in a 12 year old boy’s mouth flashes on the screen.

I can imagine even the most greedy porn mogul would willingly sell his empire for whatever he was offered by a secret investor, and gladly stay on as a paid front-man for the business, rather than take the chance this video might ever become public. Blackmail, certainly, but the world in which we live is not always a nice place.

This woman, once manipulated with drugs and alcohol for the profit of greedy porn moguls, has now become the Tigress. A Tigress, whom rich and powerful men grovel at her feet for favor. But it does them no good, for a secret investor has captured her heart.

This is how I write fiction. I take an idea, let my imagination run with it until I visualize a synopsis for a story, then expand it into whatever it is going to be. I think most fiction writers don’t really know the end of their story until they get there. If you are going to write, plan or writing, rewriting and reorganizing, until you find the end.

A thought to keep in mind, no matter how sick or deviate the story, or how much the reader complains, they will sit there and read every word of it.

I’ll leave you with this thought before the “Church Ladies” of Lit show up, and start thumping on their bibles at me. LOL

 

[Quoll]

Off site. http://www.gofuckyourself.com Seriously.

On site. How to Start a Porn Shop.

 

[LordOfHell]

I only have a couple of thoughts about what you have posted in this thread. One, which is the main character, the man with the $60,000,000, or the women he is involved with? He sounds a bit boring, but she sounds absolutely fascinating.

He is, although I do agree that she is a wonderful character. Personally, I think making her the main character would ruin that, as the way I'm currently writing her, she starts out as mostly a mystery until she starts opening up to the protagonist.

As for the "mogul" idea--I like some of it, and I may wish to borrow part of it, although it fits better with a later chapter I was going to do involving a dirty politician. You've also given me some food for thought on what Suzanna's career in the industry could have been like, although I'd like to keep it somewhat positive. I've based some of her attitude toward from interviews I've read with starlets like Ava Devine: she's been treated relatively well by the industry (better than she had been before joining it) and she really does like being fucked on camera.

Also, I would like to note that this isn't my first time writing, although I am completely self-taught. I've never taken classes or learned the greater nuances of literature. I've learned largely through trial and error, successes and failures, and advice from people better than me.

 

[thirty]

anyone know how to start a porn business?

You will offer a serive by yourself or you will hire employees to do it?