From the FreeSpeechRevolution.com
How did you get started in the industry?I was in corporate America in sales and had a stripper girlfriend and went to Fantasyfest ten years ago in October of 99 and met the film crew of GM Video who were shooting for Girls Gone Wild. They used to sublease all their video and they met my girlfriend. Shot us over the week while we were running around like maniacs and they thought we were great. Came back home, decided to start a website for her, and they asked us if we wanted and do some more work. At the time I was making all sorts of money in sales so said I couldn’t but she would, so for the next year we did that. Then my girlfriend and I split up. In February of 2001 the owner of Gm Video asked me to do a movie of my own, I didn’t know anything about doing movies, but me and 4 of my buddies went to Budapest to do something different called “Budapest Booty” and didn’t put the cameras down. It was us being idiots, running around, and fucking hot chicks. It was the number three pro-am release in the country by AVN. So I said to myself I must know what I am doing so from there I began putting out more movies. And then finally in 2002 in the fall I left corporate America and full time sales and began doing porn. Then I got a serious girlfriend, quit doing porn for a while, got a bar business, then I said fuck that, and two years ago moved out to LA and have been doing porn super full time. It was quite a trek from corporate America to porn to bars to porn. I still promote bars out here because I like promoting bars, but I will never run another one.
In many ways you pioneered or helped pioneer the modern pro-am style of shoot. What do you think about that?
These days you can’t make the money you did then now, back then you could put out a DVD and start a website and make money, good money. A solo girl could make money then. That’s not possible these days. These days the only way girls can make money online is with live shows, the days of the girl making money off the website are over, long over. Even adult film superstars make 500 dollars a month on their websites. Several years ago it was nothing for a housewife to make 7,000 a month. That was not unusual and lots of solo girls who were making 5,000 to 10,000 a month. You can’t do that anymore, the whole system has changed.
The only way girls can make money now is doing live one on one chats.
For a company to make money, you have to have multiple streams on revenue ; you can’t just rely on a website. If you shoot stuff like me, because of the proliferation of content on the internet, the whole landscape has changed. . For our company we have websites, broadcast deals, DVD deals, live deals, foreign distribution deals. You have to every single revenue stream you can; you can’t just rely on any one stream. I know what do better than most people, creativity and marketing. I have gone out and partnered with the best director, Jim Powers, and got partners with the best companies in each area so that I can do what I do best, and they can do what they do best. That’s the only way these companies can succeed is to make strategic partnerships like that because no one company is good enough to do everything on their own.
What do you think about the whole piracy issue facing the industry?
If you use a company like we use a company, http://removeyourcontent.com, they will find your stuff that is pirated and get it pulled down for you. And if these people who are debating, crying and screaming to not use a third party, would use it they would be fine with it, because they find your content and take it down. Has it hurt sales? Sure it has hurt sales a little bit, but the reality is the more porn that is out there and more porn that is accessible means more sales.
Could you talk a little bit about your website, http://fuckafan.com?
Fuckafan is a concept for every average guy in America with a small penis and beer gut like me who can go out and fuck hot porn stars who would otherwise never talk to them. So one fan gets a hand job, one fan gets a blowjob, and one fan gets to fuck a porn star, they are shot live in our studios in Chatsworth.
Could you talk a little bit about free speech and the free speech issues facing the adult industry?
My personal feeling, and this is not the feeling of the others in the adult industry, is that there should be a review board where we submit our videos, end of story, One would get a seal of approval just like in England and other countries where they tell you if it’s socially acceptable; yes or no. Is it a violation of the first amendment? Abso-freaking-loutely, but it ends the prosecutions and legitimizes the industry.
Why do you think some people in the adult industry are against that or finding a solution such as a review board?
A lot of people in the adult industry are non-conformists, and were never successful in the real world. I come from a little different background. I see the only way to make this really successful is through regulation; I know it’s unpopular but this is reality. If there was a board that said you can do X, Y, Z in a movie, do you think anyone else out there would be stupid enough to make P knowing you can go to jail? The thing is, the internet is where all the revenue is coming from now. Make a deal with the billing companies, there are only 10 billing companies, to work with this review board. That is how you enforce it. The billing companies know what the criteria is, the government says here is what is acceptable and approved, and since the billing companies have to approve it anyway, there you have it that’s how it gets done. You can’t get prosecuted about it, the governments happy about it- maybe they charge a fee for the approval process by the board, there you have it.
That’s it.
That is an enforceable way to do it, and a way that any responsible producer would agree to. If tomorrow morning the government said, you can’t shoot gangbangs do you really think anyone is going to? Instead you have this system in place now, where nobody knows what you can or can’t shoot. It’s not right. Some people say fistings ok, some people say squirting ok, some people say bukkakes ok, some people say there not. Who knows what the answer is?
It would be a very straight forward way to do it. Plus with the billing companies being part of the plan, even if you shoot it, but then can’t bill it, no one is going to shoot it. The end. Some people say they would go overseas and shoot it, but again they wouldn’t, if they can’t bill it back to America. It is exactly how they got rid of the online Poker industry. The answer was to go after the billing company with it.
What is your website?
http://Pornodan.com
http://Fuckafan.com
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