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Zivity founder Cyan Banister offering her body in pictures? Zivity itself offering a free 30-day trial?! Take notes, everyone: Zivity will never do anything this explicit again.

In an article by L.A. blog Sex and the 405, Cyan Banister discusses the creation of Zivity and her first time posing nude for photographs. We dig her insights into self-expression and how posing nude can lead to a greater appreciation for one’s own beauty:

I didn’t think much about my body but afterward, I looked at it in the pictures and thought “wow, my body is nice.” I regretted not doing it sooner and appreciating myself sooner. If I could go back, I would tell myself to pose sooner.

That’s definitely a sentiment we can get behind. But that doesn’t mean we’re down with Zivity. While Ms. Banister claims her “unapologetic approach” with investors was the key to scoring capital, we can’t imagine the same method will work with customers. Especially when a similar better site like Suicide Girls is the same price per month, and even cheaper per year (go ahead, compare prices).

Then again, maybe this new promotion will draw interest. Sex and the 405 is offering 30-day trials to Zivity, and all you have to do is email them at sexandthe405@zivity.com—no credit card required. We weren’t impressed when we got to peek, but that was a couple years ago.

So hey, if anyone wants to dive in and tell us what it looks like, we’d be much obliged. Meanwhile, we’ll keep looking at real porn.

· More pics of Cyan at Cyan Banister Bares It All In Never-Before-Seen First Zivity Shoot (sexandthe405.com)
· Zivity (zivity.com)

Original post by Ottimo Massimo

For those who pay for porn (we’re traveling in purely theoretical realms here), Pink Visual’s version of “Cash for Clunkers” is pretty funny: Simply give up your old porn website membership and get a huge discount on a new one.

Imagine, if you will, all those couples cruising around parking lots with pro-sumer video cameras in search of seduceable teens driving cars they purchased with the government’s Cash for Clunkers program, then you get to watch 400 continuous hours of the “Couples Seduce Teens” for just ten bucks.

“Originally we had planned to have consumers provide us with some small bit of evidence that they’ve canceled their subscription to another company’s site,” said a Pink Visual marketing maven, “but we thought that might get too unwieldy, so we decided to run it on the honor system and boil it down to a promo code.”

Type “Clunkers” in the promo code all through September and get half off DVDs as well as new memberships to PinkVisual.com (and its gay little brother, MaleSpectrum.com) for $9.95.

We don’t normally hype marketing putsches, but we applaud creativity, and Pink Visual’s recent strategies (like putting iPods in movies, using recyclable DVD covers, and offering OctoMom Nadya Suleman diapers rather than offering to put her in a porn movie) are fun.

· Pink Visual (pinkvisual.com)
· Buy “Bubble Butts Galore 4″ (gamelink.com)

Original post by Gram Ponante

Back in March 2008, porn pinup site Zivity made headlines after securing a cool $8 million in funding. Now it’s making headlines again: this time, because much of its funding (and staff) is walking away.

The situation is not quite so dire as some reports have suggested: the short version is simply that, in the course of its work, Zivity managed to spawn two creations—the TopFans website and “War of the Roses” MySpace application—that were seen as, well, more immediately profitable than Zivity (we can’t imagine why). Rather than watch Zivity wither away as its resources were diverted to other projects within the company, the powers that be decided to split the company in two, allowing Zivity to wither away grow at its own pace all on its own.

Porn Valley has long looked to Zivity for clues to mainstreaming: after all, if Zivity was able to managed to secure venture capital, shouldn’t the rest of Porn Valley (arguably a more profitable enterprise) manage to interest mainstream money? Alas, it’s not that simple: Zivity got the funds because it was a not very risque not-porn site started by Silicon Valley insiders. Very risque enterprises, started by Silicon Valley outsiders (or hey, even insiders) just have too many strikes against them to attract the VCs. But hey—given the fate of Zivity, maybe that’s not so bad.

· Zivity (zivity.com)
· Amicable Split for Zivity and VC Investors (dailyfinance.com)

Original post by Lux Alptraum

It’s an old chestnut that sex work is recession-proof: but how much truth is there to that conviction? The Rumpus takes a look at how topless dancers are faring in this economy in their latest feature, Recession Strippers.

A series of stripper-on-stripper interviews (a refreshing change from the more common reporter-on-stripper interviews), Recession Strippers examines the relationship between strippers and stripping, offering perspective on what brings women into the business, what keeps them there, and, of course, how they’re effected by changes in the economy. Up first: Laura Jackson, a girl whose been paid thousands of dollars to quit, but just can’t give up the dancer’s life.

· Recession Strippers 1: The Laura Jackson Experience (therumpus.net)
&middot: Photo by Romy Suskin (romysuskin.com)

Original post by Lux Alptraum

It’s tough out there for the unemployed—but luckily for (some) of us, Zoo Magazine is doing it’s part to help the unemployed hotties of the world find work…by publishing sexy photos of them.

Yes, it’s true: in their new weekly feature “Gimme A Job!”, Zoo helps girls like Nikki Friend and Sarah Arnold connect with potential employers—well, potential employers who read Zoo, anyway. Though we have our doubts about the efficacy of this plan (at least for finding work unrelated to topless modeling), at least we can now say that we read Zoo for the employment section.

· Unemployed Sutton girl Nikki Friend strips in Zoo to get a job (suttonguardian.co.uk)
· Sarah goes topless for Zoo Magazine’s ‘Gimme a Job’ promotion (cambs24.co.uk)

Original post by Lux Alptraum