Mutiny The problem with all of this is that you are needlessly personalizing it. Like it or not, porn is a business. Comments suggesting I should just appreciate the performance of the model and be grateful for it are misguided. If the model did a video and presented it to me as a gift, I would be remiss to criticize. But that isn't what's happenning here: I am paying for a service. The model - her appearance, her talent, her presentation, her voice, her attitude - are THE PRODUCT. She is SELLING those items to me (or at least to SLR) for a fee. As such, I get to criticize the product, sorry. If I contract with you to paint my house and you do a shitty job, I get to say so, and if your feelings are hurt because I didn't appriciate your artistry, so be it. The product wasn't up to my standards, and I get to say so. I can see how you make the mistake: It is offensive to criticize a woman's body. But that changes when the woman commodifies herself by marketing all or part of herself for money. "I get paid a lot of money because I am beautiful and take a cock like a champ" and "Commenting negatively on my physical appearance or choice of surgical alterations to my appearance is inappropriate" are incompatible with each other - something about having your cake and eating it too.
Mutiny "Don't yuck other people's yum" is a cliche at this point.
This trope is inapplicable. I didn't criticize someone else for liking plastic models, I said that I didn't appreciate the number of plastic models we are seeing. Reading it your way suggests we should never say anything negative for fear that someone else may like it. I don't see how you can reasonably defend that stance, but I think you're actually trying to take it.
Mutiny Bottom line, I very sincerely care if you like something. I want you to get what you like.
I absolutely do not care if you don’t like something, as long as someone else does like it.
That's my position.
Porn is a business. If this is your position, then you are a bad businessperson. You are saying that if you make 100 of something, you only care if 1 person likes it? And that you really wouldn't care about the complaints of the other 99 people that didn't like your product? You could read all the 99 comments that say, "If you'd just put a handle on the side, we'd buy these like crazy" and not make the change because you only care about the one person that likes it?
Not to be mean, but that's the diffrence between an artist who makes PMVs on the side and a person like @doublevr who runs a business for profit. He constantly points to data, trends, and stats as "proof" of what the majority of users on his site like to guide his decisions and direction. Suppressing or ignoring criticism defeats all of that.
