I used to work at this gay clothing store. It wasn't that the store would only sell to gays, but it was in a gay neighborhood, was owned by a gay man and the clientele was mostly gay. The owner's partner ran the sex shop two doors down and every once in a while, we would get an order that was meant for the adult toy store. I would usually have to take the items over to him and that is how I learned about porno stores.
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"You can open an adult toy and video store on the Internet and the only palms that get greased are the ones of customers who buy the lube cream." |
The owner was a lovely man who used to be a history professor. He would tell me all the good dirt about his clientele. I was fascinated to find out how many of his customers were upper-class housewives. He sold to straight and gay customers and was very proud of the fact that his was one of the only adult stores in Dallas that wasn't connected to organized crime.
I think about him a lot now that I'm in the porn industry. I'd like to think that he's still selling black dildos to Highland Park housewives, but that was twenty years ago. That was back in the day when one could only get adult toys and videos from the back pages of magazines or by walking into an adult store. That was the time when only the brave would go into the smut business and would have to deal with the possibility that goons could come in demanding protection money.
Today is a whole new, world. In the past, all those items that were secretly desired (for the most part) stayed a secret because of the humiliation of having your car seen in the parking lot of a Mafia controlled smut store.
Today, a person can shop at an online adult store and order their happy products in the privacy of their own homes. Today a person can open their own smut shop without having to worry about zoning laws or organized crime or the tremendous overhead costs of supplies, rent and utilities. You can open an adult toy and video store on the Internet and the only palms that get greased are the ones of customers who buy the lube cream.
Everybody loves toys and adult toys are no exception. They enhance pleasure; spice up dull sex lives and can be a lonely person's best friend. Porn videos have always been popular and are one of the reasons that the video market took off in the first place. If you have an existing sex site, a sponsor that offers toys and videos could give you your best source of affiliated income.
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If you want to open up a virtual porn shop, you can reach customers from all over the world and you might find a great many of your clients are those elusive females who are hard as hell to sell paysite memberships to.
Your options for selling adult toys and videos are vast. You could sell strictly adult DVD's or attractive dildos. You could even join a sponsor that lets you configure a whole store so that it looks like you own it. You can concentrate on one product or sell the whole cornucopia. Here's a list of some of the options you have opened to you:
Adam & Eve
(http://www.adameve.com//compinfo/affiliates_intro.asp)
Anyone who has ever taken the time to read those little ads in the back of women's magazines will know that Adam & Eve are not just biblical characters but also the oldest adult product company in the world. You simply sign up with them and post their banner on your adult site. Not only do you get a 20% commission on every sale; you also get paid $1.00 for every surfer who signs up for membership to their site through your link.
Triple X DVD's
(http://www.triplexdvds.com/webmasters/index.html)
You
can sell adult DVD's and videos for these folks and get a %30 commission on every sale.
Mega Partner
(http://www.megapartner.com)
This company allows you to
represent them with a configurable program that makes it look as if you have you're own porn shop on your adult site. You will earn a %25 commission on product sales and you can also make %5 commission on webmaster referrals.
My old friend in the gay neighborhood who owned a porn shop made a hell of a lot of money selling dildos to bored housewives. I would love to think that he too, has found the wonderful world of online porn. I can just imagine him: a 70-year-old queen pushing sex videos and handcuffs. I bet he's laughing right now as he's looking at his sales statistics.