Let's be honest, practically no one pays for porn anymore, right? And "porn star" has morphed into an almost meaningless term anyway. After all, if I'm a girl who shot a couple of Bang Bus scenes (just as an example), does that really make me a "porn star" in the conventional sense? Maybe. Maybe not.
There will always be a market for "high-end providers," i.e., those whose fee begins at, say, $1500/hr and above; however, the truth is that there are now literally hundreds (if not thousands) of beautiful providers in the $300-$400/hr range. Like most things, the market (and the hobbyist consumers) are driving this phenomenon. In short, if I can spend time with a gorgeous provider at a much lower fee, why waste my time on the porn star board? On the other hand, that enormous pile of cash I spent for an encounter with Cytherea was worth every fuckin' penny lmao.According to Alexa, 7.6% of all up stream traffic on TER comes from backpage.com
and the search keywords that send traffic to TER rank 'TER reviews' as the highest 'keyword' at 8.61%.
Now consider this:
According to my database there are about 2,000 porn stars today available, of which about 25% are indie and 75% are with agencies, and the average rate per hour is about $1,000.
The percentage of porn stars reviewed on TER from this pool is less than 15%...of this percentage about two-third involve porn stars who rates are below $500, and only 2 out of 10 involve porn stars above the average rates from the total pool of talent available.
When you put Alexa traffic ranking statistics with my database analysis, you get a very clear picture about why the PS Board is going to die. The only questions are, "How long it will take to die?" and "How the death will come about?"
I will just say that both will come SLOWLY.
Sincerely,
BM