Christian writes on www.christiansingstheblues.com : I wanted to post something early this morning and comment on the statements and surrounding controversy that this post has made: Adult FYI. www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=26176

First of all, I highly doubt that Dick Chibbles has any real knowledge of how many of the girls in the business actually do escort. But then Mike South makes this ridiculous statement:

“Now while I completely understand why contract girls shouldn’t escort, as far as the other girls in porn I don’t blame them one bit. It’s safer because they use condoms and not AIM as a contraceptive, they make more money for it and they don’t have to wait for some former gay film star/ ward of the California penal system to get his dick hard via Viagra and then after it does get hard they don’t have to endure some fucking moron trying to choke them out or similar such misogynistic behaviour.”

Lets talk about Mike South. I met him in 2000 at the Tampa Show when I was dating Lovette, and even back then I couldn’t figure out what his affiliation to the porn business was.

And now, eight years later, the only thing I can figure is that he is a guy who owns an opinion site about the business, who lives somewhere in Georgia (which is pretty close to Los Angeles isn’t it?), and once dated the publicist for Digital Playground. Thats it as far as I can tell. He isn’t a performer, isn’t an agent, isn’t a director, doesn’t live anywhere near the valley, and just makes comments on his website and various adult industry forums. This should fully explain why his post is so ridiculously stupid and actually quite wrong.

I have explained why in fact most girls in the business escort already. If you go back about ten years, the adult industry landscape was very different. Feature porn ruled the world, and there were only about 50-100 porn girls that worked at all.

Then the gonzo companies started to rapidly gain in popularity. This ushered in the era of the young girls who would do anything (anal, interracial, double penetration, etc.) and the rise of companies like Evil Angel, Red Light District, Anabolic/Diabolic, Zero Tolerance, New Sensations, etc.

During this period, the landscape of the porn agent changed as well. Jim South and World Modeling was the only game in town for so long. Then as the gonzo companies needed newer, fresher girls, new agencies starting popping up. LA Direct Models, Spiegler Girls, and Exotic Star Models were started.

Then about two or three years ago, another mini-revolution began, the rise of the internet companies. They really rose quickly, and now there are 5 almost monolithic internet companies (Naughty America, IC Porn, Bang Bros/Reality Kings, Pistol Whip Media, and Brazzers), who now dominate the total number of daily bookings for every agency.

Now, you see a huge increase in the number of agents and the number of girls repped by those agencies. This is simply because the 5 previously mentioned internet companies each have at least 15 websites that they need to update each week. Thats a lot of updates! You aren’t going to increase sales shooting the same girls over and over for each site (unless you are Shyla Stylez, Carmella Bing, Gianna Michaels, or Eva Angelina).

So these companies are DESPERATE for new girls to shoot each week. The agents are smart, they realize that any girl with a vagina that they throw up on their site will make them a minimum of 1000 dollars just from the internet companies alone (all agencies charge companies a 100 dollar booking fee per scene, plus they get 10-15 percent of each 900 scene rate from the girl).

Add to this the fact that Myspace has made finding new girls so much easier, and the fact that porn has gained acceptance throughout the US, and you now have a HUGE glut of girls in this business. Just look at the numbers, 4 years ago, you had World Modeling with 40 girls, LA Direct had 90 girls, Spiegler had 20, Exotic Star had 30 or so. Now you have LA Direct with 120, Gold Star with 110, Lisa Ann with 100, Foxxx with 60, Exotic Star with 40, Spiegler still has his 20, even horse-faced Shy Love has 40.

So now that you have this giant surplus of girls in the business, you have to remember that once these girls enter the business, they aren’t leaving to get a 9-5 normal job anytime soon. So when the money from doing scenes goes away (a girl’s shelf life has really gone from 6 months to about 3 months now) she has to figure out new streams of revenue for herself.

Some girls dance a few nights a week at strip clubs, some feature dance, some start their own websites, and the overwhelming majority turn to escorting.

So that’s the reason why the girls escort, not Mike South’s ridiculously simple and wrong statement.