Coronavirus - what's next for LP in the forthcoming weeks?

[CanadianCouple]

These OTS releases are wearing me down. Are any of you buying them in significant quantity? Just curious!

[YumYum74]

I bought one in the early days of these releases but I don’t even check them anymore now tbh.

[Syren_fan]

These OTS releases are wearing me down. Are any of you buying them in significant quantity? Just curious!

No!!!
We just wait Legal Porno to come back
I think will be soon

[lemmy123]

These OTS releases are wearing me down. Are any of you buying them in significant quantity? Just curious!

I bought the 2 with Melina May, but normally I ignore them.

[seedfeeder]

These OTS releases are wearing me down. Are any of you buying them in significant quantity? Just curious!

Nope. The production standards, action and sometimes girls are not up to it. I still have a fiar stack of unwatched stuff. So thats ok.

[frodo12]

I've been ignoring them the last few weeks. No way I'm paying 7.5 tickets or more for a shoddy production, not when there are highly produced scenes with great lighting and action for 2.5 tickets. If one of these scenes was with Cynthia Vellons, or the ultimate unicorn i.e. Petra, than yeah, I'd pay it. But for the most part, it just depresses me and makes me long for an end to the coronavirus.

[Moxoxo]

Is Gio working or not ? I see Anna post a lot from there, and Yves too. So ? Actually He deleted it.
I Hope there will be something new and fresh, not the same type again
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[Pineapples Studio]

All signs point to yes.

I think it's a bad idea and he shouldn't be doing it, esp. not with his backlog. I'm not afraid to say it. Won't change anything, though.

[Moxoxo]

All signs point to yes.

I think it's a bad idea and he shouldn't be doing it, esp. not with his backlog. I'm not afraid to say it. Won't change anything, though.

I saw it @ adulttalk xD i think the same, but i'm just a user, and you are in the biz

[Pineapples Studio]

Ehh, barely. I am very inactive. Anyway, being "in the biz" has nothing to do with this. I know what I know from following performers' Twitter accounts, just like the rest of you.

[magizi877]

I work for an "essential" business, a power electric company
and most of us are still working almost normally.

We simply cannot stop our service.

We take precautions like using protection equipment,
each of us go through a disinfectant "bath" before starting to work, I don't know the technical term.
everyday we measure the temperature of each worker, we practice social distancing etc, etc.

We were also instructed to not show up to work with any symtom associated with coivd
and it seems everyone is also practicing social distancing off work.

That being said, pretty much all of those who have a health condition
that could potentially put their lives at risk at currently not working.

So far, two employees, out of 90,000 have caught COVID.

And we know, that this is going to last at the earliest, july next year.

I think all businesses will have to figure out how to operate, alongside covid,
because it's just not going to ever go away. lol

I forgot which country is it, but there is one small country,
one of the wealthy ones in europe, that never went the lockdown route,
and they are doing fine, just using common sense and similar precautions.

[VictorH33]

These OTS releases are wearing me down. Are any of you buying them in significant quantity? Just curious!

No, haven't bought any so far, but my resistance could weaken if a model I'm hooked on came out with something surprisingly good.

I prefer to explore the back catalogue, especially the Sineplex stuff, and especially the Sineplex SOS. Just find many of the Russian models in those scenes are gorgeous and wonderfully nasty. Far more erotic than any recent LP stuff. Just my personal opinion, of course.

[VictorH33]

I work for an "essential" business, a power electric company
and most of us are still working almost normally.

I forgot which country is it, but there is one small country,
one of the wealthy ones in europe, that never went the lockdown route,
and they are doing fine, just using common sense and similar precautions.

I think you mean Sweden.
1) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/27/dont-judge-swedens-light-touch-on-covid-19-yet-says-minister
2) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52395866

They're doing okay, but their death rate, relative to population, is significantly higher than Denmark's, Finland's or Norway's. Where they're ahead is that they at least seem to have a way of keeping their economy operating while learning to live with the virus.

[Moxoxo]

Ehh, barely. I am very inactive. Anyway, being "in the biz" has nothing to do with this. I know what I know from following performers' Twitter accounts, just like the rest of you.

Do you have a Twitter account ? No Pm's aviable here

[Pineapples Studio]

I think so, but I haven't used it since like 2013. Just find me on AdultDVDTalk.

[Moxoxo]

I think so, but I haven't used it since like 2013. Just find me on AdultDVDTalk.

I dont have a account there. Nevermind

[Jocke]

Sweden is having a higher death rate than neighbouring countries but is also probably further into the pandemic and closer to herd immunity. Nobody knows because there is not enough testing but it is not far fetched to expect the other countries to "catch up" as they open up their economies.

[Pineapples Studio]

Herd immunity needs to be achieved slowly and carefully or you end up overwhelming the hospital system.

[Jocke]

These OTS releases are wearing me down. Are any of you buying them in significant quantity? Just curious!

No, haven't bought any so far, but my resistance could weaken if a model I'm hooked on came out with something surprisingly good.

I prefer to explore the back catalogue, especially the Sineplex stuff, and especially the Sineplex SOS. Just find many of the Russian models in those scenes are gorgeous and wonderfully nasty. Far more erotic than any recent LP stuff. Just my personal opinion, of course.

Agree about old scenes being more erotic, like this one:

[BlueShadow]

A reminder:
When for someone the coronavirus was just a "panic".

[Moxoxo]

So, Barbie Esm Scene and the Anna Last Scene are Shot in the last weeks.

[robin_reid]

A reminder:
When for someone the coronavirus was just a "panic".

Woodman said that but now is throwing shit on adultdvdtalk agains LP as usual and “scared” about the covid19. There is not any production hold as he say or like some organizations like FSC say, or as it is here in Europe with some agencies and some people.

This is not an STD and the production hold it’s something voluntary or according to the situation or laws of the country of each. Myself if I’m not working it’s basically because the borders in Spain are closed and there is no talent to work with and not because I’m following a production hold requested or ordered by the agencies, the FSC or whoever.

[Pineapples Studio]

With respect to both Giorgio and yourself, I do not agree with the decision to shoot during this pandemic. I'll explain my reasons respectfully - so I assure you there is no malicious intent in this post - and you will do what you choose to do, of course, and that is your right, just as it is my right to disagree and say why I think you're making a mistake.

I don't think the presence (or absence) of a governmental order to stay home and stop working is really relevant here. Governments can make bad calls on those kinds of things, as we saw here in the United States in the early days of the virus, so you should instead turn to science and common sense to inform your decisions. The fact that there has been no government-issued legal mandate to stay home in your country does not mean that the danger has passed.

But it's not about you. The reality is that you and the models will probably be fine, because you're all young and healthy for the most part, and if you do catch the virus you will experience mild symptoms if you even get sick at all. That may lead you to conclude that it's okay to shoot, because the danger to yourselves is very low, but it does not take the bigger picture into account. Even though you have a low personal risk, you can still become carriers for the virus and pass it on to vulnerable people. That is the real danger, because it creates a higher case load overall, which eventually overwhelms the hospital system and leads to higher mortality. That's just math. It's not fear-mongering; it's science. Hospitals do not have the capacity to deal with a massive influx of sick people coming in all at the exact same time. The primary reason why the lockdowns were implemented in the first place was to lighten the load on hospitals.

Herd immunity is a long-term goal, and one that we should strive to achieve, but it has to be achieved slowly and deliberately, in a planned fashion, or else the case loads will spiral out of control and we will end up in an even worse lockdown scenario that will take even longer to end. If the hospital system is overwhelmed, then not only COVID-19 patients will face unnecessary deaths, but patients of all other types and needs will face it too. Cardiovascular patients who fall dead from a heart attack, cancer patients who cannot receive treatment for their disease, trauma victims who cannot be admitted to E.R. rooms that lack the capacity to house them, etc...

By shooting now, you risk becoming carriers for the virus and exposing vulnerable members of the population to an unnecessary death. If enough people in your society behave in the same way as you do, it will lead to a critical spike in the case load, which is bad for everyone because of the loss of medical care and the economic shock of a sudden mass fatality event.

Stay home. Find a secondary source of income during this time. Porn will still be here when it's all over, and there will probably be a large number of incoming new models to shoot.

[dap-addict]

Maybe late, but I give this post a serious consideration, e-p.
Question is probably still whether Anna, Mike, Dylan, Yves, MU and cameraman practice social distancing in their daily life after working for GIO. If they are very responsible, than good, no?

Btw, do we really all have to go now to other forums for PM?
WTF?! Does this help LP?

Agree about old scenes being more erotic, like this one:

Btw which scene is this, Jocke?

[huguettedebont]

I work for an "essential" business, a power electric company
and most of us are still working almost normally.

We simply cannot stop our service.

We take precautions like using protection equipment,
each of us go through a disinfectant "bath" before starting to work, I don't know the technical term.
everyday we measure the temperature of each worker, we practice social distancing etc, etc.

We were also instructed to not show up to work with any symtom associated with coivd
and it seems everyone is also practicing social distancing off work.

That being said, pretty much all of those who have a health condition
that could potentially put their lives at risk at currently not working.

So far, two employees, out of 90,000 have caught COVID.

And we know, that this is going to last at the earliest, july next year.

I think all businesses will have to figure out how to operate, alongside covid,
because it's just not going to ever go away. lol

I forgot which country is it, but there is one small country,
one of the wealthy ones in europe, that never went the lockdown route,
and they are doing fine, just using common sense and similar precautions.

Holland

[Iddaoeeok]

I doubt it's the Netherlands, as of today, have had 4893 deaths out of a population of 17 million, Germany has had 6637 deaths out of a population of 83 million, I don't call that doing fine. Sweden have tried going down the no (enforced) lockdown route and their death rate is 6 times what it is in Norway.

[YumYum74]

It’s not the Netherlands. We’ve not been in a Spain or Italy type lockdown, more a version between that and the free-for-all that Sweden has done. Either way, we sure as hell have not been doing fine (although it’s been going better the last two weeks).

[Giorgio Grandi]

Evil, read careful.

From Wikipedia:
"A pandemic (from Greek πᾶν, pan, "all" and δῆμος, demos, "people") is an epidemic of disease that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of people. A widespread endemic disease with a stable number of infected people is not a pandemic. Widespread endemic diseases with a stable number of infected people such as recurrences of seasonal influenza are generally excluded as they occur simultaneously in large regions of the globe rather than being spread worldwide."

Look, borders are closed, each county goes in the way they think is better.
I am not entitled to comment what is going on in other country, but here, until proven otherwise we dont have a pandemic (at least anymore), that's what I'm going to write to you:

today I was at the zoo with my wife and kids

We walked down in the zoo until the Elephant area, than going up to the lions and cheetahs. We could see the construction site for the new Gorilla Area, with excavators and dozers. Carpenters, side by side inside the pavilion under construction, assembling the scaffolding.
Remember today si 1st may. Labor day but still, they working.

We got hot dogs from a kiosk after the Tigers and we sat on the lawn to eat them. The kiosk was about 3mt by 5mt.
3 guys inside prepared the food and a girl at the window serving the clients. Side by side for 8 hours in a small kiosk, than when they finish to work, they will take public transport or the car, they go at home to their wife/husband/kids and the day after they came back to the same kiosk to do their job.

We continue our tour till the middle of the afternoon, like a normal day. Some minor restrictions (a cloth mask, keep distance, do not sit at the restaurant...), but its nothing much different than a usual visit to the zoo.

We have see other kiosk during the day, but we did not get any more hot dog, they sold normal meals.

We arrived at home late afternoon, my neighbour cut the lawn grass with a brace on the nose. "Whats up with your face?" I asked, "oh boy I was in the gym and I am out of shape, I got a "sok tat" I did not expect"
I went back home to google for it, because I did not have any idea what he was talking about
--
I went to my office every day as usual in the last 2 months. Except my production manager, who would be forced to take public transport for part of the journey and have asthma problems that worked from home every day (but he does it normally one day/week), every one was working in the offices without problems, like the automechanical across the street and like the many others.
Only shops were closed for a 3 weeks or so, but now except shopping malls, it is basically all open

I was to the dentist, and so my wife in the last weeks. My kids did not miss a single day at the kindergartener.

10th may we will start a huge renovation of my new office/studio, 8 workers will work side by side for one month or so. The same 8 workers that in the last weeks (when shops were closed in CZ), were working every day as usual on other constructions sites.
//

The covid situation is largely under control in Czech Republic, it is not a pandemic but a disease of which is possible to control the spread without to lock people at home, at least here

What matters is the situation here as the borders are closed, so why should we behave as in other country where it is a total mess?
In 3 words, we should not and we are not.

To lock people at home is a solution, when everything else failed.

The solution for us was to prevent the spreading on early time, and then keep the covid spreading in the way the health system can cope without to go crazy.
This is what happened in Czech Republic.

The reason why we made it, is insignificant at this point, but I am proud to live here and pay my tax here.

Risk Factor Zero is not possible to achieve.
In porn we deal with diseases every day, actors put their health in each other hands. We (producers) try to provide the actors the proper tools (dealing for them with testing services for example) and monitoring their results. But still, it is an actor decision to take a booking when a producer call him to perform a scene and everyone should respect this.

So, I know few producers that can not stand someone else to shoot before them, and they are ready to tell every possible crap just to make others look bad, but it is definitely a irrelevant problem. They just looks like total fools is front of everyone else, people that is actually happy to see we are doing ok and we are going back to something like "normal", step by step, probably a month or more before the others.

Overall, I am really sorry and concerned about the worldwide situation regarding covid and the adult industry, specially in country where the prevention plan failed, but for us the worse is behind us and it is time to move on.

[Iddaoeeok]

Good news is that not every country in the world is led by a narcissistic moron with the mental and emotional age of a toddler.

[Pineapples Studio]

Giorgio, I thank you for writing a thoughtful response to my criticism. I appreciate your candor in discussing this topic as well as your willingness to explain your reasoning, which you certainly did not have to do. You raised many good points and I think I understand your decision to continue shooting more clearly than I did before. So I do appreciate that, and I wanted to start my post by saying that to you clearly.

I still do not agree with your reasoning. I think all producers should strive to wait a couple weeks after restrictions are lifted to see whether the situation cools off or gets worse again. That would also avoid any possibility of performers (and crew) being exposed to the virus during the critical two-week "buffer period" immediately following the removal of restrictions, during which time the true spread of the virus is unknown, and the possibility for a second wave still remains. Remember, this virus has an unusually long incubation period. If another wave forms, you likely won't know until it's already too late.

However, the choice is down to you. If you feel that the risk is low enough, and your government has not restricted the operation of your business, then practically speaking, nothing can stop you from shooting during this time. At the end of the day, you are held responsibility for yourself and the people who work for you, and the judgments you make that could impact their livelihood.

So, I do still disagree... but I disagree respectfully.

[Jocke]

Dapaddict, Let me introduce Aspid


from GG262

Some girls just have that look. I'll show you another one...

[Jocke]

Is she pretty or what!

[Jocke]

I am very happy that Markus talked her into doing some naughty stuff with her butt in spite of what her mother had told her.

[Jocke]

BTW, choker necklaces should be mandatory!

[proxy001]

PW@s favorite hungarian agency announced producers as from monday shootings start in Budapest.perormers will do an additional Covid19 testing at the laboratory.
I am curious the french count how he will manage from coming monday not to do the casting of those many new models are waiting in this crisis to make some fast money ?

[drevokocur66]

I am very happy that Markus talked her into doing some naughty stuff with her butt in spite of what her mother had told her.

That is some quality tip fucking gif.

[Giorgio Grandi]

Giorgio, I thank you for writing a thoughtful response to my criticism. I appreciate your candor in discussing this topic as well as your willingness to explain your reasoning, which you certainly did not have to do. You raised many good points and I think I understand your decision to continue shooting more clearly than I did before. So I do appreciate that, and I wanted to start my post by saying that to you clearly.

I still do not agree with your reasoning. I think all producers should strive to wait a couple weeks after restrictions are lifted to see whether the situation cools off or gets worse again. That would also avoid any possibility of performers (and crew) being exposed to the virus during the critical two-week "buffer period" immediately following the removal of restrictions, during which time the true spread of the virus is unknown, and the possibility for a second wave still remains. Remember, this virus has an unusually long incubation period. If another wave forms, you likely won't know until it's already too late.

However, the choice is down to you. If you feel that the risk is low enough, and your government has not restricted the operation of your business, then practically speaking, nothing can stop you from shooting during this time. At the end of the day, you are held responsibility for yourself and the people who work for you, and the judgments you make that could impact their livelihood.

So, I do still disagree... but I disagree respectfully.

What you say makes sense now (to you), because probably in your country you are still long behind our point (and the point in general).
The point is we need to coexist with covid on long term and we need to start to understand the sooner is possible how to do it.
We are not talking about the full production, but more about wandering shootings, as you know very well, czech republic talent pool is not enough to sustain any serious production.
But borders are opening here, there are some rules we need to study and eventually apply to import performers (this depends also from situation on other countries)
We are learning what to do, because it's time to do it.

I want to write you this.
Lions kill to eat, but legends used to say that lions drive all the animals of the savannah away from the danger when there it seams there is no way out.
Only dogs do not follow and bark at the fire.

This is what is happening now.
In the last months, countless company popped out with many different solution to help performers to make money. As you can also see on pornbox also, performers have now the possibility to release their own content and get a cut. In most of the cases is a cut where the owner of the website does not have any profit or a minimal profit.
Company that already provided a platform for the performer to publish content (most in USA), increased the revenue of the performers or did donations to associations that distribute the money to unlucky performers.
Personally I am purchasing almost any content I get at GGL, even knowing Im not going to make money, but its worth for us to work for nothing and keep performers and directors surviving, than just shut down and have people risking more to make money in other ways

Because when people get desperate (I see this in Italy), they just make terrible choices.

The industry is not stopping, for the sake of most of performers that are depending from regular incoming.
The solution to a long stop is to keep the performers to make enough money at least to pay their bills and then bring them back on the stage as soon as there is the possibility to do it.
Everyone knows many performers are not shooting only with people of their household as suggested, but we believe they do it with a enough common sense and precautions, as they are trained from years dealing with STD.
In fact, serious companies are committed to maintaining performers making money, help them tu survive, also if it means to turn on the other side and after make a call to encourage pride (I did it personally).
But we need to have trust in performers, performers are the core of our industry and they deserve we respect their choices, this is why is well known people is shooting, but only dogs are barking.

The industry Lions are all working in one direction, to help its members. Who doesnt do it belongs to few groups:
- people that do not have the money/technology to do it
- people that do not care
- people that try to use covid to pursue a personal interest, demonstrating once again to the whole industry the reason why no one respect them

We know how it is for the dogs in the savana, they are just scavengers that wish to party on the corps of the lions.

Even if so will happen (in the remote dreams of someone), lions will remain lions and dogs keep being dogs

[pastaga]

Anna de Ville marathon !
One scene every day for 30 days. The last one will ber her 100th scene for LP !

[proxy001]

I suggest you guys watch this interview. Don`t worry isn`t about PW, but about manipulation at higher level he does with fans, and models...you`ll like this too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDbwWTk ... ViyQ0aeiWw

[Pineapples Studio]

^ Very insightful and necessary viewing for all porn aficionados. I highly recommend to everyone here. Especially xxx.