Last weekend's New York Times Magazine includes a lengthy feature on Kink.com, the San Francisco-based company that produces fetish videos for online distribution that recently drew public attention when it bought an armory for $15 million to be its new home. The story is long, and, in the tradition of most stories about sex written for the Times, it is completely fucking boring. The lone description of what Kink actually does is a grim depiction of a woman beating a man. Kink.com, though, has got it right when it comes to next-gen porn-making. In these days of worldwide internet porn distribution, Porn Valley is fast losing its dominion, and those who find a niche and master the means of its distribution will thrive as big budget porn features manufactured by old school porn production companies are fading. Kink.com founder Peter Acworth has found his forte in fetish. The gonzo porno guys at Bangbus are conquering the field of pro-am porn. Eventually, they'll be replaced by digital, and Porn Valley will be a memory, an artifact of a puritanical American past when pornography was taboo and porn stars were real.
