A few days ago I wrote that I thought that video podcast porn (or erotica, or smut, or adult videos or whatever it is that people need to call it to feel good about buying it and watching it) will ultimately be very big in the women’s market because it will give them the abilty to buy and watch explicit sex with the same degree of privacy that they currently enjoy when buying and reading written pornography (Oops! Excuse me, erotica 
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All that’s missing are films/videos that are both sufficiently filthy and well-crafted to hold these women’s attention and not make them feel like their inteligence or sexuality is being insulted; and a way to get the iPorn onto women’s iPods, and their money back into the pockets of the producers.
(So what you’re saying, TC, is that what’s missing is quality product and a distribution system for the product. Is that all?)
Well okay, the “all that’s” is a pretty big all that’s. But it’s not insurmountable. Once again I’ll point to the wonderful variety of very lovely things that women now have to shove up their cunts that simply didn’t exist only a few years ago.
Pioneers like Joani Blank and Dell Williams didn’t start by offering premium dildos, they started by offering a premium shopping experience (distribution), and slowly be surely products evolved to take advantage of the niche they created. Yes, Doc Johnson is still selling crap by the truckload, but the good doctor no longer is the sole arbiter of what a dildo can or should be. In fact, Dr. Johnson’s vision of what a sextoy is gets more and more quaint looking as more and more beautifully made pleasure instruments find their place in the market.
I think we make movies that are good enough to reach women (and men for that matter) whose tastes and expectations have been formed by the wealth of well-written porn (Oops, I did it again – erotica) that’s available online (scroll down to see what ERWA has to say about Xana and Dax), and it respectable places like Barnes and Noble. But it might be a while before there’s an Ellora’s Cave of video smut for women, or till you see our DVDs for sale at places like Blockbuster. Two decades of porn that seems to get meaner and less well-made by the month has soured a lot of people on the idea that watching real flesh and blood people have sex can be fun.
So for now, we do it the old-fashion way, but with a electronic twist. We’re like a baker, and the internet is like a giant farmer’s market. Our video podcast is that tray of free samples that makes you slow down.
“What sort of a chocolate cake (or cup of coffee or bottle of beer) could be worth double what they get for the same thing at the SuperSaver. Then you taste, and if you like it you buy. And if it really is that much better, you tell your friends!