It’s not just newspapers and greeting cards that are getting their lunches eaten by the Almighty Internet…
Even the hotel porn biz is starting to suffer.
Say dad’s off to the annual industry convention in Las Vegas, Atlanta, Chicago, New York or L.A. The question being, will he partake of any LIVE in-room entertainment during his stay?
Well, that’s against the law even in Sin City—-wink, wink.
How to hook up relatively safely might be a follow-up for a future travel column…..
Meanwhile, let’s take a look at the more mass appeal way for a little late night adult entertainment at a convention hotel.
My source is an industry acquaintance who dabbled in PPV distribution for several years.
For years in-room pay-per-view movies have been a money grab for hotels.
And while some major chains publicly oppose adult movies in their rooms, they can’t prevent the actual ownership of the properties from providing the service. After all the brand name chain just manages the hotel for the owner.
Mainstream movies in hotels may price from $7.99 to $15.99 per title, out of which the PPV supplier normally pays 50% to 55% to the film’s distributor. And maybe another 25% to the hotel—leaving a profit of merely 20% of the in-room rental fee. And for that the vendor has to install the actual PPV system which most hotels usually receive gratis.
By contrast adult flick economics are much more favorable for all three parties.
Hence the desire to lure deal old dad into a little late night, X-rated hotel video action.
First off adult movies are dirt cheap to produce. Yet the retail price to the hotel guest is usually sky high.
Like $12.99 to $24.99 per title.
Out of those inflated amounts the PPV provider pays only around 20% to 25% to the porn providing company and may up the revenue to the hotel to 30%.
Let’s follow the dirty dollars…..
Say dad orders “All Girls Orgy” and is charged $20.00, only between $4.00 to $5.00 winds up with the film’s distributor.
And if Mr. PPV hands over another $6.00 to the hotel, he ends up with a fast $9.50 in his pocket. Not a bad haul.
Of course to make the in-room porn biz more appealing to the businessman, “All Girl Orgy” will never appear on his billing. Instead his hotel statement will merely mention a charge such as ‘Movie Revenue’ or other innocent sounding line entry.
So why would dad order an adult title at his convention hotel when he could do it at home via his cable system?
Dumb question. Mom might catch him.
I was curious as to what type of porn sold best at major convention hotels?
My source points to girl-girl action as being the most popular. Three-ways also rank right up there. Gay titles score surprisingly well. But the fastest growing PPV theme flicks with conventioneers seems to involve their secret fascination with ‘trannys” (translation: transgender-transsexuals.)
Who would’ve thunk?
However all that glitters in the wide world of in-room porn isn’t what it used to be. n fact, the biz is rapidly turning flaccid.
Free computer porn has cut mightily into the XXX market.So iIt’s now adult PPV versus the laptop for dealing with that late night convention stress.
And more often than not, the laptop that wins out.
Avoid the one starring Craig Glaze-Her.
Here are just a few of the classics you can see at your local Motel 6.
1. You’ve Got Male
2. Everyone I Did Last Summer
3. The Boobyguard
4. Ocean’s 11 Inches
5. ET: The Extra Testicle
6. Night of the Giving Head
7. The Sperminator
8. Edward Penishands
9. The Bone Ranger
10. Good Will Humping
11. A Few Hard Men
12. Village of the Rammed
13. Clif Banger
14. Breast Side Story
15. Laid in Manhattan
16. Saturday Night Beaver
17. Any Given Cumday
18. A Clockwork Orgy
19. Any Officer and a Genitalman
20. Gulp Fiction
21. Oklahomo!
22. Beverly Hills, 9021-ho!
23. The Bare Bitch Project
24. My Bare Lady
25. Bitanic
26. Buffy the Vampire Layer
27. Pulp Friction
28. A Beautiful Behind
29. Gangbangs of New York
30. 40 Gays in 40 Nights
31. Womb Raider
32. School of Cock
33. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Gays
34. White Men Can’t Hump
35. Throbin Hood
36. On Golden Blonde
37. Sisterhood of the Traveling Sluts
38. Romancing The Bone
39. King Dong
40. Fill Bill
41. Sorest Rump
42. Brassiere to Eternity
43. Yank My Doodle, It’s A Dandy
Gawd those titles are funny.
thanks Chuck, but whatever happened to ‘Yank My Doodle It’s a Dandy?”
must be very lonely chuckles being a digger. If going to hotels for the porn flicks
gets you excited…so be it! you need help!
Ooops, I SEE IT! It’s in last place….
Fellas, we overlooked the obvious. A porn post by New “Jack” City.
I worked at an independent, locally owned video store for most of the 90’s. Back then new releases in VHS ran anywhere from $80-$120 a pop. So it took forever to recoup the cost on those titles. BUT… Porn on vhs was usually about $15. Rent them out 4 times at $4 a pop and the rest was all (baby) gravy. Kids movies were the same too. Cheap to buy and even at a lower rental rate, pure profit in a matter of weeks. You got street crew for all sorts of obscure, hard to find titles… But porn and kids movies are what kept the lights on.
Oh…
Forrest Hump
The Cocketeer
Pulp Friction
The Hills Have Thighs
Nightmare on Cum Street
Saving Ryan’s Privates
Butt to the Future
The A(ss) Team
Edward Penis Hands (1 and 2…)
The Flintbones
The Fat, The Bald and the Ugly
Cumforgiven
Knight Ride Her
The Greatest American Virgin
Hill Street Blue Balls
I’m sure there are a million more I’m forgetting, but you get the idea…