Porn Industry Using Airbnb Rentals as Film Sets

Re:Porn Industry Using Airbnb Rentals as Film Sets by chimeracoder on Friday February 26, 2016 @02:08PM (#11183311)

> People will be having sex in your house even without the cameras. That's what people do.

Without getting too graphic, there's a HUGE difference between people having sex for fun and a professional porn shoot.

The latter is messy, smelly, and causes a surprising amount of lasting damage. There's a reason that so many porn studios film in hotels (and likewise, a reason that so many hotels refuse to rent rooms to people that they suspect will be filming there).

I won't go into details on HN because it's not really the venue, but let's just say this: if you knew what being "on site" at a porn shoot really looked, sounded, and smelled like, you'd never want to watch porn again[0].

(And we're not talking about an amateur porn shoot where people just film their "normal" sex on a webcam, either - Michael Lucas literally holds the world record for the most expensive gay porn film ever made[1]).

[0] Source: good friend of mine was in the industry for a while (behind the camera, not in front).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lucas'_La_Dolce_Vita

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Re:Porn Industry Using Airbnb Rentals as Film Sets by threatofrain on Friday February 26, 2016 @08:46PM (#11185647)

This looks like a chain of telephone that leads to exaggeration. There's no need for prose telling us that if we saw the behind-the-scenes of a porn shoot, then we'd never want to watch porn again. That's extremely unlikely.

If AirBNB wanted to quantify the risk of porn shoots, then they are in the best position for that kind of empiricism. The rest of us are speculating from very weak intuitions; just a bunch of posturing.

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Re:Porn Industry Using Airbnb Rentals as Film Sets by sandworm101 on Friday February 26, 2016 @02:20PM (#11183403)

Non-porn people are very capable of making a real mess. Talk to any hotel cleaner. People get drunk, they bleed, they get sick and even die, the later being very rare in porn.

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Re:Porn Industry Using Airbnb Rentals as Film Sets by chimeracoder on Friday February 26, 2016 @02:26PM (#11183462)

> Non-porn people are very capable of making a real mess. Talk to any hotel cleaner.

I'm well aware that sex can be messy, and I still maintain that professional pornographic shoots are far worse.

It sounds reasonable to compare the two, unless you've ever been on the set of a professional pornographic shoot.

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Re:Porn Industry Using Airbnb Rentals as Film Sets by sandworm101 on Friday February 26, 2016 @04:45PM (#11184515)

I didn't mean sex, just that people can make a huge mess no matter what they are doing.

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Re:Porn Industry Using Airbnb Rentals as Film Sets by true_religion on Saturday February 27, 2016 @12:06AM (#11186151)

How so?

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Re:Porn Industry Using Airbnb Rentals as Film Sets by kafkaesq on Friday February 26, 2016 @02:44PM (#11183622)

All those positions, all those retakes, on the couch, on the kitchen counters, in the stairwell.

Plus there tend to be additional people on set besides the actors, having takeout food, smoke breaks, etc.

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Re:Porn Industry Using Airbnb Rentals as Film Sets by ryanlol on Friday February 26, 2016 @03:59PM (#11184184)

People tend to have takeout in their hotel rooms, people tend to smoke (various things) in their hotel rooms, people throw TVs through their hotel room windows (and not only in movies).

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Re:Porn Industry Using Airbnb Rentals as Film Sets by true_religion on Saturday February 27, 2016 @12:08AM (#11186154)

Let's put it this way... its the equivalent to having a dance party in your hotel room as opposed to just having to dance with your significant other.

Sure, it is all 'dancing' but the quantity of people has a qualitative effect on behavior.

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Re:Porn Industry Using Airbnb Rentals as Film Sets by ryanlol on Saturday February 27, 2016 @06:18AM (#11186807)

>its the equivalent to having a dance party in your hotel room

This happens, a lot. Guess what happens afterwards? The hotel generally charges you a cleaning fee. (Which includes much more than just cleaning, but the days the room wasn't in an usable state etc.)

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Re:Porn Industry Using Airbnb Rentals as Film Sets by true_religion on Saturday February 27, 2016 @12:16PM (#11187695)

That's exactly what the AirBnB holders ought to charge. Of course that kind of stuff are business concerns which AirBnB sellers tend not to think about because in their minds they're not running a business.

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Re:Porn Industry Using Airbnb Rentals as Film Sets by ryanlol on Saturday February 27, 2016 @05:40PM (#11188831)

https://www.airbnb.com/guarantee

AirBnB also has an option that enables you to set up a cleaning fee to be charged if necessary.

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Re:Porn Industry Using Airbnb Rentals as Film Sets by kafkaesq on Monday February 29, 2016 @07:24PM (#11199905)

The point is that egregious violations of the Terms of Service (not to mention general decency) deserve egregious penalties in response.

Not just a "cleaning fee."

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Re:Porn Industry Using Airbnb Rentals as Film Sets by ryanlol on Friday February 26, 2016 @03:56PM (#11184170)

If you're not going to any details your comment is literally worthless.

I've been in a plenty of hotel rooms that suffered far worse damage than I could ever imagine a porn shoot causing. At least I've never watched any porn that involved throwing things through the window, setting the carpet on fire and the entire building reeking of weed.

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Re:Porn Industry Using Airbnb Rentals as Film Sets by phjesusthatguy3 on Friday February 26, 2016 @02:31PM (#11183499)

"Lucas contends that the film is the most expensive gay porn film ever made due to a budget of $250,000 and multiple celebrity cameos." -- your wikipedia link.

So, doesn't literally hold the world record.

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