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Would anyone like to see another Tickling Paradise?

gyobfan4

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A few years ago I stopped buying and looking around for tickling videos as I just lost interest in all what is on offer and being made. I just got tired of seeing the same type of model in the same old bondage furniture. I'm only into male tickling and there just isn't much variety with different scenarios as there is with female tickling videos. I was thinking how popular Tickling Paradise used to be back in the day with all the different scenarios and not just restricted to models tied to beds or the same studio made stocks as so many studios today do. I'm not complaining about tickling videos made today as many people like them and that's great but would say a Tickling Paradise 2 that included both genders with a whole range of setups and different types of scenes work as well as it did? I for one would very much welcome it and if I had the money and space I would like to start something like this.
 
God I miss TP. Would love to see version 2.0! I miss Rene the most. Until Tasha from TA came along I never saw anyone suffer as much from foot tickling.
 
The thing I liked most with TP is that they did different themes in their videos it wasn't all the same. How come producers don't carry this on, is it because online piracy is so bad now there wouldn't be any point putting much money into sets and bigger bondage contraptions? If this is the case then the people in this community who expect everything for free need a bloody hard beating for ruining it for the rest of us.
 
The problem with this is that TP was very much a company of its time. And one thing we can never do is go back to the past again, no matter how hard we try.

Tickling videos have had a distinct arc of evolution over the years and these changes happened for some very specific reasons.

In the earliest days, tickling videos were produced by large producers that filmed for the general porn industry. They realized there was a market for fetish content, and would use talent they had for traditional shoots in it. Tickling, Spanking, Bondage, and Watersports all were done. Vid-Tech, Platinum, and Cal-Star are the names from this era. And one thing of note was that every video was usually 30 minutes, or even an hour. There was always a plot or story. Why? Because these producers came from the general porn industry and that material had plots and stories then always. So they kept doing that.

All the above companies capitalized on the new VCR fueled market, and did quite well. And soon a second wave of companies emerged; Harmony, CUE, FM. These companies specialized in fetish. They didn't do regular straight porn, just fetish oriented material, and as they had owners/producers that actually often enjoyed said fetishes their content was better then the assembly line stuff the major porn companies churned out as sidelines, and they captured more and more of the market. They all tended to do story based material also, copying the formula that had worked before. Harmony is a great example of this.

The web, cheeper video equipment, PC editing ability, and eventually online payment options shifted the market again. The bar to entry became much lower and an individual could realistically produce and distribute material on their own without a massive investment in cameras and editing bays, and so forth. The difference was that these were shoe string operations, without deep budgets. They also were very much operated by 'real' practitioners of the tickling fetish. Thus, there was little money for costumes, sets and so forth, and finding models that could act was not common as the entry rates they paid. Further, many buyers of the time felt that having to fast forward through 40-50% of a video to watch the 'good parts' was a pain in the ass, so these producers just focused on said good parts. Story was disposed of for financial reasons. It cost more to make, and there was a perception that customers didn't really want it anyhow. Just the fetish stuff. So that is what they served. Magic Touch, Solefully Yours, and ANA all fit this era.

Tickling Paradise came along at this point also. They decided to add story elements to their clips as a point of distinction, and because I feel they liked that style of media. And they had success because there IS a segment of the market that likes such, and will buy it. So they had some success, but their time near the top of the pile was short because they ran into the next major evolutionary point in the industry.

Good Bondage.

The Tickler in Black was the first to introduce this, and with the addition of Pricillia, a true break out fetish star gained massive traction and success. Eventually the format would be defined totally by Tickle Abuse with Tommy's self-made bondage equipment that was state of the art in lee immobilization. The added technical aspect of streaming delivery of clips was the final piece of the puzzle here. It demanded a clip length of around 10 minutes tops to be manageable for downloaders. So there was room ONLY for tickling in the clips. Buyers didn't want to pay for, and spend time downloading story that would eat 40% of their 10 minute clip. So you got the tie 'em and tickle 'em format as the only true option.

As time passed many producers tried story driven stuff, and it always does sell to an extent, but rarely does it do well enough to cover the added costs and time to make when the producer could knock out two or three tied and tickle 'em style clips in the same time. To much bigger profit. So you see that over and over. Selling points become the model, the quality of bondage, and perhaps the Ler.

As we move into the Only Fan's era of porn, now we have individual women controlling their whole process. They are the actress, producer, sales force and all else. Many will produce custom material, but very very few have the resources to deliver a story driven work. Or film it. They can and do deliver solid porn clips easily. But more then that is rare. So once again, your story content stuff will be absent.

There will always be one or two producers that do some story stuff. But it's a small market and there is little room or ability for new entries into it.

PV existed at a special moment when they were able to seize that segment and run with it for a while, until market forces pushed them under.

Myriads
 
Myriads, this is probably the best post I’ve read on here in a long long time. Well thought out, interesting point of view, and informative. This should be sticky. Well done.
 
Who wouldn't? The late 20th century was a good era pornography-wise, not that the mid 2000s were bad. Now is rather 'okay', IMO.
 
I've come back to the forum several months ago after a long absence and from what I've observed producers like Tickling Paradise have gone the way of the dinosaur. Some models like say a Ludella Hahn will do a long set up/plot for a tickling video but the vast majority don't. It's always a set up in the stocks or tied to the bed, and it seems the vast majority of people on this forum prefer it that way. I have always appreciated a good storyline with a tickling video, I wrote one myself that I had a custom made of a couple of years back. But if fans asks for customs with plotlines models will shoot them, unfortunately the demand just is no longer there.
 
One modern producer which does make that type of video is Russian Fetish. Ticklenail from Serbia also likes to spice things up with a scenario from time to time.
 
Just for those of you who are reminiscing TP, she started a loyal fans site where she posts all the sets flog videos and photos
 
Just for those of you who are reminiscing TP, she started a loyal fans site where she posts all the sets flog videos and photos

Could you please share a link to this website? :)
 
I honestly was never much of a fan of Tickling Paradise, with the exception of clips involving Renee and some of the older women (like Margot). Most of the younger women didn't seem that ticklish, although Lily was extremely attractive at least.
 
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