Cindy Gallop: Faites l’amour, pas du porno

” Cindy Gallop: Make love, not porn, TED2009.

About a decade ago, Cindy Gallop, a pixie-like businesswoman, said she began dating and sleeping with men about half her age. While their stamina and her experience made a good combination, Ms. Gallop said, she also discerned a disturbing trend: the boudoir moves of many of her young lovers seemed drawn entirely from pornography.

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As a mature, experienced, confident, older woman, she added, I have no problem realizing that a certain amount of re-education, rehabilitation and reorientation has to take place. As laughter rippled through the discomfited and rapt audience, Ms. Gallop unveiled a Web site, MakeLoveNotPorn.com, that compares what it calls the porn world with the real world of sex.

As graphic and funny as some of the language was, the site was mostly text. Now, Ms. Gallop is taking it up a notch with MakeLoveNotPorn.tv, a kind of YouTube for the erotically unabashed. The site, just a few weeks old and still in beta, consists entirely of videos uploaded by real people having what might be called nonperformance-like sex.

” Spreading the Word (and Pictures) on ‘Real’ Sex, The New York Times.

Still in its invite-only beta phase, MLNP.tv provides a platform for its users to upload and share their own NSFW content—#realworldsex, rather than “porn” per se—which is reviewed and selected by the site’s backend staff and published at their discretion. Each submission is $5, a nominal fee Gallop hopes will keep out the spammers and trolls. Published content can be rented for $5 for three weeks at a time; there is a 50/50 profit split between the content creator and the house, which Gallop hopes will serve as incentive for users to promote their own content—in other words: pick up some of the marketing slack.

In a world practically bleeding viral Youtube videos, Gallop hopes MLNP.tv can harness that same viral video enthusiasm—and do it lucratively, no less.

” MakeLoveNotPorn.tv Is the NSFW Social Media and Content-Sharing Platform the Internet’s Been Waiting For, Gizmodo.com.

1) Incredible woman —I LOVE her—; 2) Love the idea; and 3) What about gay porn?