Is Live Sex On-Demand Coming to Hotel TVs?

by Thelma Jesselman | January 17, 2007 at 10:56 am | 1888 views | add comment

I am not a prude and neither are most of the folks in Pahrump Valley but you have to draw a line somewhere. I saw this today in the New York Times and I nearly spewed my coffee.

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 16 — In the world of on-demand viewing of sexually explicit material, the next step could be the ability to watch live performers from the privacy of a hotel room.

That was one topic during a panel discussion here at Internext, an annual trade show for sex entertainment industry producers, marketers and payment processors.

Gregory Clayman, the owner of the live-action company Video Secrets, predicted that the industry would soon be selling not just videos on demand in mainstream hotels, but images of people having sex live over the hotels’ entertainment systems.

“We feel that live, right now, is coming of age,” Mr. Clayman said. “We are planning to make the jump to hotel rooms.”

And this is something I had no clue about.

Americans spent $1.6 billion last year for on-demand and pay-per-view video, according to JupiterKagan, a media research firm. It estimates that about a third of those sales were for sex films.

However I was happy to see this:

Several of the industry’s leading producers also expressed concern about recent federal government raids on their studios and about the need to block the access of minors to pornography.

Federal agents have raided a dozen or so sex film studios over the last three months seeking to verify the ages of all performers and off-camera employees and to examine records the industry is now required to keep. No arrests have been made and no charges have been filed.