Website Aims to Be 'Yelp' for Self-made Porn
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Are you ready to share your intimate preferences the same way you share your restaurant recommendations? That's what Cindy Gallop, the vivacious founder of MakeLoveNotPorn.tv proposed at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas.
Gallop wants to make sex as shareable as anything else. In August, she launched MakeLoveNotPorn.tv where people can post movies of themselves having real sex with all its foibles.
"Real-world sex is funny. It's messy. And it's the kind of sex people want to know about," Gallop said.
She said people get an unrealistic view of sex from watching porn. Even so-called amateur porn is not the real thing, she said.
"The dorm rooms you see don't exist," she said. "More than 99 percent of amateur porn is filmed by professionals."
Soon MakeLoveNotPorn members will be able to do more than post and watch videos on the site. Gallop announced an upcoming feature to the site MakeLoveNotPorn that she said could jumpstart a social sexual revolution. She plans to allow users to make their own playlists of favorite videos from the site — much like you'd put together a Spotify playlist of songs — and make them shareable with others.
She said it's a way for people to share their sexual preferences in a way that is less threatening.
"Share a playlist of what really turns you on," she said. "And your partner can take it from there." If some activity shown in a video makes the other person uncomfortable, the subject could be easily ignored, rather than dealing with the awkward silence or shocked look in a face-to-face conversation.
Further, Gallop plans to add badges much like those of Foursquare , though to reward much different accomplishments. The goal is to help people become more adventurous and try new sexual techniques that they see on the site's real-sex videos. For instance, newbies to the site would earn a "cherry" badge.
Membership is free, but members pay $5 to stream each video as often as they want over a three-week period. Members also pay $5 to post a video and then receive 50 percent of the streaming fees collected by the site.
All members who submit a post or appear in a video must provide two forms of government-issued ID to prove they are over 18 and have given their consent. The content rules are simple, Gallop said: no children, no poop and no animals.
Gallop said the company had its first pay-out in December, and some members are already making four figures per month.
The site will soon launch an in-video rating system, so instead of giving the movie an overall rating, viewers can indicate their favorite parts. Designed especially for the way many people watch porn — with one free hand — a tap to a laptop's space bar translates to a "Yes!" while multiple taps indicates a higher rating — yes, yes, yes!
"I believe you can save the world through sex," she said. But she's willing to start small. Her vision for the near future is to be the Yelp of adult sites. She'd like it to be as easy for people to ask their friends for some new porn to watch as it is to ask for a restaurant recommendation.
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