Comments on: Is the Web destroying great porn scripts?

According to The New York Times, the attention span on the Web is to blame for reducing porn movies to short scenes that can be easily uploaded. But is this really the whole story?

[rwm72]

It's a Gen Y thing. Short attention span. Gen X were the remote control age, flicking through tv channels with a short attention span. Gen Y is even faster though, needing instantaneous satisfaction.
Load times? What are they? Vista is too slow to boot up, I can't wait that long. Windows 7 is faster, but still too slow. iphone is faster but not fast enough. Now, there's 3GS, which is faster... but I want it instantly, etc, etc. I remember as a kid going and making lunch while waiting for a Commodore 64 game to load on cassette :)
Gen Y is "I want it, and I want it now". So now, you just have to cut to the chase. Like Homer Simpson said while cooking a burrito in the microwave, "10 seconds! I can't wait that long! Where's my burrito?"

[ckurowic]

And Gen x did a DANDY job bringing up Gen Y.....you guys did a freaking terrible job. Don't blame anyone but yourselves for "kids these days".

Okay yes, but you can't tell me you weren't frustrated by the time it took your Commodore 64 to load!

People will never be fully satisfied with any speed, we always want faster, faster, faster. Not just the young generation... everyone wants things to be faster and work better.

And personally I'd rather not waste 90 minutes on a porn video when I could get all that over with in like 5 minutes. I mean, sex can go on for a long time and that's good but for real? Yourself and a porn video? You want that to be a 90 minute long experience?

It in hard-wired into the human behavior to always want faster, bigger, stronger, better -- ?? chalk that up as yet another moral failure of the younger generation is preposterous.

The younger generation is no different than those before it -- it merely looks different. And even if it looked the same you older people would still be dissatisfied and it is immature and more pathetic than the young generation itself. So stop vomiting your thoughtless shortsighted filth and act like the adult you are.

-mack, 19 year old college student, proud member of gen y.

[terminalblue]

actually the most viewed video on youporn has 11millon views and is 6 minutes long. the second most viewed video is 10million views and is 54 minutes long.

your research is more akin to poorly researched trolling. but your writing is a great example of web based ADD.

[bonesbautista]

He's not trolling, he just needs to perform some more, ahem, research...

[ChrisMatyszczyk]

@terminalblue,

Ah, no, no, no. Most viewed THIS WEEK. I have amended the post to make that clear.

Thank you for pointing out YouPorn's record viewing score of all time, though.

Chris

[gerrrg]

Oh come on. It's not about ADD at all; it's about getting to the action without all the lame chatter and set up, and this started a long time ago as those compilation movies gained popularity in the 90's.

[Jim Hubbard]

Yes it is! It's destroying those and....and.....UNICORNS!

[ckurowic]

PR0N2.0

[Perry_Clease]

Cloud PR0N

[Jack K1]

It all depends on what the porn is, um, used for. If it's for personal gratification, then 3-5 minutes should suffice. Indeed, producers should think of this as an artistic challenge. I wish they would.

The longer porn, aka "party porn", is great for group entertainment and has an entirely different audience. This type of porn should be more entertaining and inspiring. It's the stuff people would want in their personal libraries. And the longer it is, the higher the quality, the more likely an individual is to want it in their personal library.

[Pishkado]

This isn't new. The real sea change in porn movies happened with home video players, when viewers were first able to fast-forward to the "good stuff." This is just another manifestation of the same thing.

[Spurtz]

Pish - my thoughts exactly, see below - should have read your response first...

Kudos to you.

[Spurtz]

"Apparently you have to pay a monthly fee..."

C'mon Chris, don't be shy - I don't believe for a second that you wouldn't be fairly certain of the fact that porn is a business.

The clips are 3-5 minutes purely because it's so quick to access many "clips" in a short amount of time. It's really no different that 25 years ago, except we called it "fast forward"; and as we all know, it could never be fast enough.

[NickSpillum]

There are still porn companies out there trying to perfect the art - instead of pumping out budget gonzo scenes.

Take VivThomas.com for example - those guys are amazing. Wicked Productions are also pretty involved. Let's hope that this recession rids the adult industry of the pick-up-a-cam budget types who "pump" out tons of content and pollute the market.

[libertyforall1776]

So we need an "adult section" in iTunes?

[Monokul]

Why did this article matters?

[darthgerber]

For the illterate-challenged, I have translated Monkul's nihilistic query:
"Why does this article matter?"

[coprophilous]

Gee, darthgerber, if you are going to be pedantic and condescending, at least you could spell Monokul's name correctly. Otherwise, your rapier is dulled.

[MrRetardo]

As a male I can say that I have no interest in Porn Dialog. Just show me the good parts! If I want a story to the movie, I'll go watch an actual movie.

[NickSpillum]

What about an ACTUAL movie with Hardcore porn? That may well exist soon (sorry guys, I am in the industry too).

[karpenterskids]

I bet you enjoyed doing "research" on this, Chris...

[groink_hi]

If you look at Internet porn, you'll find that a vast majority of it are amateurs. I read a couple of other articles in past weeks where the likes of Vivid are competing with Mary and Joe in North Dakota. I don't think this has anything to do with ADD. More, I think people are being turned on more to sex done by REAL people. The problem with Vivid is that they focused on handsome guys and bimbo women they probably pulled from a ********** in Nevada. Big breasts that'll kill someone - guys are no longer into this! Seriously! Both men and women are now looking to better their sexuality in the bedroom - by watching sex being done by real couples. Think about it... Gen X was brought up watching the WRONG sex. Guys are brainwashed into thinking sex performed by Vivid is the correct sex. No, it isn't. Sex can be performed by ugly people, fat people, short people, and just about every other walk of life - and without utensils.

[bob swerski]

How exactly did Gen X bring up Gen Y? Did we birth them when we were 12 years old? Think before you post please. It's the helicopter parents born in the 60's who tunred their self-absorptedness onto their kids and got them into 20 activities at once, constantly shuttling them back and forth 24/7. The result is kids who don't know any life other than perpetual motion and cramming as much into every second as possible regardless of the quality.

[pbradleyii]

I think the delivery mechanism has something to do with it also. Even with something like news clips on the internet . Clips that seem perfectly well paced while kicked back watching the big screen in the living room are intolerable when watched sitting at the computer in the office. Maybe it is just the expectation of control and finding exactly what you want quickly on the computer, while being conditioned (less so now with tivo) to the leisurely pace of stinging out every bit of information as long as possible between commercials on the TV.

[PrivateDrive]

I'm in the business and let me tell you it has nothing to do with generation X,Y, or Z. Free content all over the web is the killer. Why buy a cow, when you can get the milk for free, right guys?

[tpsamguy]

eh, I dont know about great but def funny. Check out the reality scripts on ipinkvisual.com

[mikko62]

Hi Sensei;

I certainly can't resist the sloppy porn, but was recently channel-checking and was transfixed of some real good stuff - a girls fantasy in the Spanish Inquisition! Didn't catch the credits, but I think Oliver Stone, or Stanley Kubrick (RIP), could have done something like that.

I'm a virgin, so I just don't know the business, but I see a wide gulf between the blockbuster fatigue, and the sloppy porn titillation. There's so much artistic material - I beg to see what Cristobal Columbo really found, or Thomas Jefferson's dalliances, or more recently, maybe Sarah Pallin's adventures, or my recent misadventure to Rio?

Heck, as I recollect, went with my friend Barack here in Oslo to karaoke - they threw me out, then to some titty-bars - had to carry him back to the US Embassy, but Lurch there said: 'You, ok - your friend, too drunk'. So I had to dump him in the snow - hope he's ok.

I'm sure I'm not the only one that loves a good sloppy story - carry-on my wayward friend, /Mikko