Nichification has been a buzzword in adult for several years; the consistent drilling down of fetishes — making the material more and more specific — to attract the die-hard fan. That fan, as any website operator/content producer will tell you, is just as likely to pay well as to be particular. But ProVillain.com, the site owned by Tim “Pro Villain” Woodman, reflects an economy that is snapping back from nichification to take a more holistically evil approach.
“I felt it was time to consolidate,” Woodman says from his homey studio in Porn Valley. “I’ve got the blackmail scenarios, the kidnapping scenarios, and bondage blowjobs, but in addition to updating the sites, I felt the need to put them together.”
Not a villain myself, I imagine that if one is going to go through all the trouble of kidnapping a lady, then one might as well avail oneself of a bondage blowjob, too.
“One might,” Woodman agrees.
Plus, Woodman’s old sites were showing their age.
“My old sites were all HTML and tables,” Woodman says. “They needed to be brought up to the 21st century, 14 years in.”
Woodman, who has been in the professional bondage business for nearly two decades, notices his customers getting older even as the age range of his models widens.
“Thanks to the internet,” Woodman says, “I can get a 19-year-old woman who is very in tune with her own fetishes and also continue shooting with women who’ve been in my videos for years.”
A quick look at the revamped and consolidated ProVillain.com reveals a multigenerational porn-fetish pantheon: Ela Darling, Caroline Pierce, Tyler Faith, Nicki Hunter, Marie McCray, Amber Rayne, Mika Tan, and Alison Tyler, whom Woodman describes as “dizzyingly tall.”
But back to the aging of your customers: Mightn’t there be something comforting about that Drudge Report/Craigslist-style 90’s website vibe?
“Perhaps, but that might stab me in the heart eventually,” Woodman says. “Stabbing people in the heart is something we villains do all the time, but not self-stabbing. I don’t want all the new kids laughing at me.”
Are there new kids?
“Kids are lousy at kidnapping,” Woodman says.
What I’m saying is, are kidnapping and blackmail scenarios something that is aging out, like player pianos and women with cigars?
“I don’t think so,” Woodman says. “These fetishes are all about a loss of personal control that a lot of people like.”
And the permission to give up that control, too, I bet.
“Exactly,” Woodman says. “Plus, it;s a good time in this business to be a fetish producer.”
How so?
“[With the recent porn moratorium] Bondage, whipping, fondling — it’s a lower rate but you don’t need a [STD] test for it. There are scenarios with no oral sex, no genital fingering. You pretend to murder them, chloroform them … that’s the fetish. And there is a whole world of people who pay for it: Germany (of course), Japan (of course), and Australia.”
Australia?
“I don’t get it, either,” Woodman says. “But who doesn’t like baby oil on Alison Tyler’s hoo ha?”
Previously on Porn Valley Observed: Rigger Please; At loose ends with Ela Darling; Gentleman/collar—Ernest Greene’s Masterful “Master of O”
See also: Pro Villain
Oooooooh…. some of my favorite people getting captured by one of my favorite bad guys!!!
Is that a photo of Caroline Pierce?
YES.