Men and women have always held a fascination for pirates, the handsome rouges of the sea. Women have been swooning at the thought of these swash buckler carrying them away and having their way ever since they saw Errol Flynn in Captain Blood. Porn studies have begun capitalizing on that imagery in hopes of capturing more of the female market.
Porn videos that are able to grab a piece of the powerful female buying power know that women are loyal customers rarely changing brands if it continues to do what it promises even if prices go up. This is a new thing for pornographers to think about since loyalty is not something expected out of many of the website customers these porn sites call members. The movie Pirates with Jesse Jane was unable to grab the female Internet as hope even though the production value rivaled a small Hollywood movie budget. The movie had great custom and tons of girl on girl action. Female pirates looking for gold and lust is a hot theme. But perhaps because it was labeled adult and only available through adult sex stores the movies did not do well with the female audience. Women liked the movie when they saw it but few went out to buy it. Some believe that if the same movie were carefully edited and put on a premium cable station would have had a very different response. Women do like porn, even hardcore porn. Porn movies are no exception. The Story of O and last Tango in Paris all had decent female movie goers. Women movie goers need more than period costume and fucking to make them shell out money.
Although it is acknowledged that l feature exotic locations, costumes or situations add a different element to an otherwise contemporary and sometimes boring mix it is usually not enough especially if the movie is has a porn label. There is something very taboo about buying, not watching, a porn movie from a sex store and watching a X-rated movie on the big screen for a woman. And as strange as that sounds the percentage of women that buy sex videos is still so very low that most adult production companies don’t even consider it in their marketing plans.
