Gay Porn Is Dead; Long Live Gay Porn

This weekend saw our latest monthly porn dump and kaffeklatsch here at Fleshbot Central--you know, when we open up the bins of DVD screeners that have accumulated in our office over the past several weeks and invite our pals and assorted hangers-on to come over and take them off our hands. This time around, however, the smut wasn't flowing out of our coffers as quickly as it used to. Sure, people loved those divine little watercress sandwiches we served, and our vodka-and-Wild Cherry Fresca punch was as as much of a hit as ever. But the attitude towards the goodie bags we kept trying to force onto our guests--and which they kept refusing in favor of more watercress sandwiches and spiked Fresca--was perhaps best summed up by one friend sho sniffed on his way out the door, "Who wants to watch this crap anyway? I've seen all these people before, and when I want to jerk off to porn I just go online and find something on Xtube."

Which made a certain amount of sense. After all, we personally find a grainy two minute clip of some horny college dude with a webcam and a nine inch dick a lot more sexy than yet another three hour Extended Director's Cut starring the same three or four dozen bodies fucking each other--and which carries a sticker price of $59 to boot. If we didn't receive all those review copies, we couldn't imagine spending that much money on porn. And who needs all that clutter anyway?

So then we started thinking: Who does buy and/or watch all those slickly produced, professionally shrinkwrapped DVDs we keep receiving ... especially if a lot of other people we know (like our kaffeklatsch guests) seem to limit their porn diet to free amateur clips and online scenes too? Obviously, some folks must still be attracted to those shiny DVDs; else the studios still wouldn't be churning them out. But surely it's only a matter of a very short time before DVDs go the way of VHS tapes, cassettes, and Jeff Stryker's singing career ... right?

So what say you? Do you still look forward to those big studio DVD releases as much as you used to, or have you pretty much migrated exclusively to online content--whether it's the kind you pay for or stuff you find via Xtube or BitTorrent--when you're looking to get off? Let us know in the poll below, and feel to tell us more in the comments. (Who knows, we might even invite you to our next kaffeklatsch if you ask nicely.)

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