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Let's say I got rich in the dot-com boom of the late 90s / early 2000s. I decide to go to porn valley and shoot porn for about 2 years, then take all the content back home and build a website/DVD business.

If I rented a house in LA, could I book 3 girls a week to shoot with me? I'd have my own makeup artist on hand, clean bathrooms, and a female assistant at all times. Wardrobe provided for special scenes and they can keep the clothes afterwards.

What are the chances of them reliably showing up? If I pay cash right there after the deed, will this increase interest in my bookings?

I'm thinking 2 BJ scenes and one 1 fuck scene per week. Fuck scene may contain anal.

EDIT: Note -- I wouldn't live where the scenes are shot. I'd probably rent an apartment nearby. The house is just for shooting porn.




I guess I disagree with everyone here. Anything's possible if you have the dream and the ambition to make it happen, and if you keep the dream realistic. I always dream that my little pipe business will eventually be run by a bunch of illegals doing the labor while being managed by a friend I go boating with...with a bigger boat, of course. But I know that it'll never happen that way, so I'm content making some extra scratch doig something that I enjoy, is fairly cathartic and that I truly believe in.

I've entioned this a few times that I'm old enough to remember the 70's and early 80's (Golden Age, my ass...way too much focus on the dude's face) when Eric Edwards and John leslie did puff pieces in Swank and Hustler about how they were real actors and not just anybody could be "male talent". I saw that as bullshit then, and the last 10 years or so have proven me right. Hell, anyone can be talent and filmmaker. Especially if they know how to run an idiot proof cam and have a rudimentary understanding of some basic editing software. We're through the looking glass as far as content goes. There are no Jack Horners bitching that their artistic expression is being stifled. Artistic expression no amounts to pretending to pick up a girl "off the street" or have her come to an "office" looking for a gig.

We're also through the looking glass as far as the money goes. Your shit WILL be pirated, and you need to accept that as a price of doing business. With the tanking economy, and the ease of swashbuckling on the high seas of the Interwebs, the mountains of cash just aren't there anymore. That's not to money can't be made. Brandon makes a living. JM does. Paul is still going to have that gawdawful yellow monument to his own douchiness when he gets out. Creampie Cathy and Wifey still bring in a nice chunk on their own sites.

I guess the thing to ask is what your motivations are. Is this an investment, to be run like a real business? Or is it a toy you'll use to get laid, ala Jet Tits? Or a combination of the two?

Is there some reason this has to be done in LA? I'll go back to my recent preaching that I can't for the life of me figure why LA, with it's governmental nosiness (CAL- OSHA, fer instance) is the mecca of porn. I'd assume if you're in a big enough city to have a few strip joints and CL/ Backpage/ TER "escorts", that you'll have have an endless supply of transient female talent. Look at what Reality Kings has done in Florida.Love em or hate em, they've certainly made their stain, er, mark. Venture out of porn Valley, young pioneer.

Will you still have a problem with talent flaking? Yup, you will. It's the nature of the beast in this industry. Paying cash or not, female assistant or not, keeping their wardrobe (?) or not, sometimes girls will flake. Alcohol, ego, drugs, just getting up late, car troubles, whatever. It comes with the territory of 18- 25 year old lasses.

I think it can be done, because it has been done, and is being done. And will continue to be done.

Barry
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