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Thank you all for the XPT class is racist stereotypes. You have all been awarded your "Nappy Ho" certificates. Not every hispanic is living in squalor. Get to Miami sometime and tell a cuban business man that jibe.

Besides, even poor people buy porn, perhaps more so. I still don't see why adult companies don't have latin divisions set up producing scenes with Latin stars, such as sativa or Paola Rey marketed for a Spanish speaking audience.

Imagine if Hollywood ignored its foreign box office.



Moxie, you still haven't answered the big question...why?

If it's such an untapped market, why hasn't either an English language company set up a Spanish arm, or a dedicated Spanish language company popped up?

I bow to no man in my admiration of Sativa Rose and her fantastic breasts (although I prefer her with her original hair colour), but I'm hard pressed to think of any Spanish-speaking girls right now who have that much clout that a company could be built around them. Carmen Luvana and Jenna Haze are both popular, but I'm not sure I'd bet the house on either of them...look at what happened to JKP.

As an aside, would you also be in favour of porn featuring Chinese-American girls speaking in Chinese? There's a market of around 1/2 a billion to aim at there, but it's unlikely they'll ever get to see it, and if so, certainly not by legal means. Which means no money for the producer...

I think your accusations of racism are a little off base, and I think jamesn has pretty much spelled out the reasons why nobody is pursuing this market...whilst they may not be pretty, they are largely true.

Also, your example of Hollywood foreign box office takings is not really analogous to what your are proposing...Hollywood simply subs or dubs films into the native language of the market, it doesn't make a film in a foreign language (with rare exceptions, like 'The Passion'). Adult companies already do this with Spanish or German language tracks...indeed, in spite of not making the blockbusters in Spanish, the mainstream studios can still make money off of them in the Spanish-speaking market. Hence, they are no better than adult companies in this respect.

I can't recall the name of it, but I'm sure Salma Hayek is involved with a new studio/production co which aims to market Latin stars to an English speaking audience (which I assume means they will be shooting English language films...the number of Hollywood remakes of perfectly good foreign language films tells us that America can't stand subtitles!).

Having said that, who knows...it only takes one person to do it right, and then everyone else in porn valley will jump on the bandwagon.