Dear Lee-
Stopped by to actually post a thank you to many of the folks who helped me with this article, including you. Thought I would respond to a couple of your points.

"No mention of the hours upon hours upon hours of work a lot of site owners put in to their websites"
- This doesn't seem particularly relevant to the story -- I didn't find it necessary to explain that people who own porn sites work long hours.

"no mention of the real problems we're facing as an industry"...
- every single person I spoke with said that piracy, the recession, and saturation were the 3 most important problems facing the industry (including you).

"...like newbies flooding the net with free porn hoping to make sales when they dont actually know what they are doing... there must be thousands of newbies building hundreds of free sites every day that never make any sales but put millions upon millions of free pics on the web."

See the section of the article "A Saturated Market"

A Saturated Market
Over the last decade, the gay porn market has been inundated with massive amounts of new product. Self-proclaimed producers from all walks flocked to adult entertainment, operating under the correct assumption that sex sells and the sort-of-correct assumption that there’s an endless supply of customers. “What most failed to consider is that there is also an endless supply of content,” says veteran porn analyst Tom Hymes.

“I got into the industry at a really amazing time,” says porn commentator and online talk-show host Jason Sechrest. “It was 1998, Jenna Jameson was just becoming a household name, and the adult entertainment industry was on the cover of Time and Newsweek. We started telling CNN that we were a multimillion-dollar industry! We may as well have just taken a gun and put it to our head. Everyone with a camcorder picked it up and said, ‘Hey! I’m going to do that!’ ”


I certainly do appreciate all of the time folks spent to help me with this report -- including you, Lee. Just wanted to offer up a response.

All the best,
Brian Smith
The Advocate