Fleshbot Examines Yet Another Smut Site With a Dubious Business Plan

Bryan Christian — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:00:00 GMT

Hey, anybody out there been using Zivity, a subscriber-based upscale smut site that's curently in that nebulous state known as "beta testing"? They're posing themselves as "the HBO of the Web” -- and getting a bit of investor cash in the process -- but we ain't drinking the Kool-Aid just yet, and neither is Fleshbot.

According to insidery Valley blog Techcrunch, the site will remain in "private beta" mode until at least 2009, but has already secured $8 million in private financing. When it does eventually go public, it will pay the models and photographers who generate the most interest based on user votes ... but not with that $8 mil. That money will come from user subscription fees, since you will have to pay to look at and vote on content.

... and of course, you can guess where this going: who's gonna pay for boobies when they're everywhere online for free? We'd like to put it another way: how is HBO possibly a model for a website when it's fundamentally a different business scenario? If we had to purchase access to 100 websites at a time, then yeah, we might consider a package that had high-class smut like this. But since it don't work that way (yet)... well, let's just say we're pretty skeptical too. Not that we're not open to perhaps having an open-minded look with one of those beta testing accounts... (hint hint).

Previously: Like Wal-Mart for Boobies, Porn.com Now Open for Business

Like Wal-Mart for Boobies, Porn.com Now Open for Business

Bryan Christian — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:00:00 GMT

Fleshbot gives us the rundown on the brand groping-and-licking-and-spanking new Porn.com, which 9 months after being acquired by a "global internet porn conglomerate" for 9 million clams (er...) has been transformed into what is claimed to be the "The World's Biggest Porn Site." Wonder if we're gonna need a bigger browser?

We just can't help thinking that a domain as special as Porn.com should be put to more loftier pursuits. The internet is porn, as we've been told so many times, and maybe the primary porn destination should offer something different (and less costly [$24.95 per month]) than generic, semi-amateur, by-the-bucket porn fare -- especially when you can already gorge yourself on that sort of thing on sites like RedTube and Megarotic for free.

Aw, too bad. For all that scratch, we were kind of hoping for a brand new orifice, at least.

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Fleshbot Examines Yet Another Smut Site With a Dubious Business Plan

Like Wal-Mart for Boobies, Porn.com Now Open for Business