One thing that HASNT been mentioned yet in this thread that really should be is that many of the surfers who join amateur sites, be they male or female ones do so for a reason other than the 'porn' aspect.

In fact, knowing several solo male amateur site owners myself a lot of their members stay members because they have built friendships with the models in question.

In all honesty the people joining these sites (especially the male ones) are both male and female surfers looking for friendships and the chance to meet their favored amateur face to face (so to speak) in fact, if you can attract the afficionado surfer who joins an amateur website for the sole purpose that they like the model and nothing more then you can in fact get a stream of long term recurring revenues

As webmasters we tend to look at a single viewpoint of our surfers and that is that they join our sites to get off and, whilst this does play a role in the reason they join these payites there is so much more to it too.

Community is going to be the next big thing in the adult industry and from looking at various stats that i have available from the Stud Money sites, our members spend as much, if not more time looking at things like the news feeds, community forums and even clicking the niched community news links than they do watching porn feeds or looking at stills.

Yes, we are in the porn business but we have so many other things to offer our surfers joining porn sites that quite often the simplest things are overlooked because they are just that... to simple

Regards,

Lee