Chris Madsen has done it again.  My amazing social media friend and fellow beautiful porn warrior has written another great article for Whack Magazine about the state of the porn industry and the different ways in which people are changing it for the better.  It makes my heart sing to see people engaging in this discussion, especially when it’s so thoughtfully and eloquently put together.

He speaks out in favour of what the internet and various technological advancements can do for people who are would-be pornographers…  We can do it all on our own.  We don’t need big companies, because our small companies are doing a lot to lap these big guys in the creative sphere, and increasingly in the economic sphere as well.  He points this out with excellent examples, including some familiar names:

There’s a global economic crisis going on and jobs are hard to find, so what’s a fresh college graduate going to do for a living? A college graduate who’s grown up in a time where porn wasn’t as big a big taboo as it was twenty years ago. A college graduate who might have majored in video, cinema, photography, or some other creative field that’s internet-friendly?

Well youngsters, there’s always porn, and you don’t even have to show your face to the world anymore (see: Violet & Rye). Maybe you could even turn it into a profitable business (see: The Art of Blowjob and Pornographic Love). Maybe create a community with like-minded people — people coming from the worlds of art, theater, academics, and adult entertainment (see: Darling House). You don’t even have to be an amazing or great photographer. Because you now have Hipstamatic, Instagram, and a host of other photo apps right there on your Droid, iPhone — whatever you prefer. Don’t know much about creating a website? Guys: Tumblr! This is nouveau porn 2012.

The adversity and pressure that the adult industry is facing these days is also forcing people to think differently — to be creative. The world around us and the troubles it’s having are forcing people to be creative, to think outside of the box. New people with new ideas are doing porn, and the people already inside the corporate porn world are thinking in fresh streams of jizz as well (see: Bobbi Starr, Tonights Girlfriend, Joanna Angel, to name but a few). Corporate porn is hitting the high-end-quality button, high-def baby! Something that you, me — the consumers — are willing to pay good money for.

 

It feels good to know that people see it this way, that people can and will make their own porn empires and that we will be the taste-makers, always on to the next thing: an even better way of sharing ourselves and our sexualities in an honest and respectful way.

You can read the rest of the article, and I’d love to hear what you think about this divide…  Do you think that more people will take the initiative and make new porn?  Would you?