Outsourcing Pornography
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Not that I want to seem hostile to the adult entertainment industry but I can think of few enterprises that embody the essential elements of capitalism.
As have mainstream American corporations the US’s porn entrepreneurs have discovered the advantages of having their products produced offshore.
“I’m saving about 40% by shooting in South America,” the improbably named Lexington Steele, owner of Mercenary Pictures, tells XBiz. Apparently his company and its subdivisions, including one called Black Viking, are “mining the Brazilian talent pool in both the heterosexual and transsexual genres”.
“We’re paying in US dollars, so in Brazil we’re able to pay the performers about 50% of what it would cost in the United States.
“If a standard boy-girl costs $1,000 (£788) in the US, it would cost me $500 in Brazil. But to the performer in Brazil, that $500 may be worth $1,000 down there
Outsourced porn gives more bang for its buck
