Yeah it does bug me quite a bit.

Sure, people say gay surfers are more sophisticated and discerning but... are they really given the opportunity to be more sophisticated and discerning?

A large straight program comes out with some niche sites and pays an assload of money PPS and what happens? Gay webmasters crawl all over eachother for the opportunity to promote them and land those fat PPS affiliate checks. The sites are shoved in surfers' faces, they're whored out to the surfers and thrown at them left and right and they end up signing up... then, through no fault of their own, end up cynical, skeptical, dissatisfied, frustrated and quite often ripped off.

When we, as gay webmasters, rail against the predominantly straight programs for launching such sites, we need to take a step back and look at our own role in it all and the ways in which we contribute to their proliferation. We can't collect $50+ PPS commission checks with one hand while flipping off the programs signing those checks with the others.

When I look at how much we spend on our content, exclusive models and original videos and the time and effert and energy put in to original content, as well as customer service and a quality product - and I know we're not the only people doing this and there are tons and tons of other gay webmasters that we compete with as well as others that offer a different product but also of extremely high quality - and then have affiliates coming up to me saying "Offer PPS... offer higher % commissions... offer big fat PPS commissions... do what BIGSTRAIGHTPROGRAMXXX.COM does if you want my traffic..." it can be quite frustrating.

When I see an affiliate sending surfers to some misleading and deceptive site off of the same page they're sending surfers to my site on, it can be quite frustrating and disconcerting.

There are some gay-owned and operated companies doing the same thing these days - following the model pioneered by predominantly straight companies that repackage the same old content in to niche-specific sites that are nothing but a trap for surfers so that webmasters can exchange their money amongst one another.

So... it's not just the straight companies doing it. There are gay companies doing it, and gay affiliate webmasters enabling the entire phenomenon to take place... all the while alienating surfers and hurting us all in the long run.