New Product Type: Artwork

After waiting patiently for over a year for him to join, talented artist 3Dee has joined Mall of Erotica and uploaded his first piece of 3D rendered erotica: Busty:

The quality of his renders is so high that we had to explicitly create the new product type of "Artwork" so that people wouldn't get confused and think these are actual photos of real people!

In this photoset, leather-clad Busty poses for our virtual photographer in a manner of positions, finally stripping completely and proving that while she may be virtual, she's all woman. I couldn't help but get aroused just reviewing the pictures and I can't wait to see more!

With 3Dee's arrival work has been started on a new feature to the site to allow customers to request custom work from our shopkeepers. We're still working out the details but we hope to have something in place soon. With hot 3D rendering like this, who could resist wanting to see the girl of their dreams in whatever pose they wish?

In other news the site is almost at the 400 product mark, so if you're an erotica producer, model, or author you'll want to get in on the action as Mall of Erotica continues to grow in popularity and attract new customers! Open a shop today!

4-Play & 5-Play at Aquarius

I finally did it! I am now a pornographer. :)

Back in July I did my first photoshoot with 4 kinky friends at Aquarius Bath House in Winnipeg. It was full amateur unscripted fun at its best!


French Maid's nipples get the clamps

Up until that point my education in photography had me taking photos of static subjects under controlled lighting conditions. My teacher told me that my photos were some of the best she's seen from a beginner. So with a well-inflated ego I took on the task of photographing Kitsune88, French Maid, Shelby, and Lylani while they had some BDSM fun at Aquarius. To be honest though, as an amateur photographer I think I bit off more than I could chew.

I had never been to Aquarius or any place like that before, so I was a little out of my element, nor was I expecting to meet Shelby and Lylani, two post-op transgendered women. Prior to them I had only met one transgendered woman (that I was aware of) briefly back in October 2012 at a Tortured Youth meeting and it took me awhile to acclimatize to the reality of it, and to correct myself from calling them "guys". The group immediately started stripping and tying each other up. Despite the nudity and the sexual mood of the room I was able to maintain composure and focus on getting the pictures. Only one time in the entire three-hour session did I find myself aroused.

Aquarius is a great place for naughty romps, but a photo studio it is not. The room we had was lit poorly (one light on a far wall). I brought one static soft box light with me, but there was only one outlet in the room so most of my photos were confined to that area. After talking to some other photographers (and comparing my photos to the pics taken by expose-ay in the same room 18 days later) I've decided that I definitely need a flash whose direction I can adjust.

Shelby in her leather catsuit

The group was very active, flogging each other and playing, so I needed to use a faster shutter speed to capture the action, but the low light required a wider aperture,
introduce a lot of noise into my pictures. The room was also very hot, as we had to keep the door closed to prevent a lot of voyeurs from hanging around, requiring frequent water breaks.

I'm an introvert who doesn't deal well with social situations. The fact that I met new people in a strange place in a strange part of town and performed an activity I'm by no means an expert on and still ended up with some half-decent photos was a major accomplishment for me. I posted a few raw images up at fetlife and was sharply criticized for my lack of proper processing and framing (not to mention lighting and everything else). I've taken their criticisms as constructive and am going through the images and carefully altering each one to a more polished version. Once I get enough together I'll put it up on Mall of Erotica as 4-Play at Aquarius.

Kitsune88 and her friends invited me to photograph them again at Aquarius a few weeks later but I ended up getting sick and couldn't attend. In my place I sent veteran photographer expose-ay, who did an excellent job and was able to process his images much faster, thus 5-Play at Aquarius is up on Mall of Erotica first.



The 4 Friends: Lylani, Shelby, Kitsune88, and French Maid

So if you're in Winnipeg/Selkirk (and area) and you'd like to get some kinky shots taken and you like my work (which will get better with practice) fill out our talent application form or contact me through this blog.

Erotic Halloween! Cast of Charmed Nude!

It's one day late, I know, but I've been busy. :)

A few days ago I caught a re-run of the TV show Charmed. I always found those girls to be really hot and several of their episodes feature very erotic scenes but sadly, no nudity.

So for my own enjoyment I've created the following image so everyone can enjoy original cast members Piper, Prue and Phoebe (aka Holly Marie Combs, Shannen Doherty, and Alyssa Milano) the way we've always wanted to see them: topless!

Happy Halloween!

Wow! Adult DVDs for Sale!

We've been quietly at work the last few weeks and our efforts have paid off. Shopkeepers can now sell physical goods at Mall of Erotica! For now we're starting out with just adult DVD's, but soon we plan to expand to all manners of adult goods, from sex toys, to used panties, and more! My personal dream of seeing Mall of Erotica become a true virtual mall is closer than ever to coming true!

As of this writing the lovely Fiona of Pink Flamingo Publications has made available two DVDs for sale:

Sybil Hawthorne & Livvy Rose: 2 Girls Tormented Together

Sybil Hawthorne and Livvy Rose share a bed in sexy retro lingerie. After undressing and a little making out, Livvy surprises Sybil with handcuffs, legcuffs, and toe and thumb cuffs. After an extended foot tickling, spanking, and paddling, Sybil is both laughing hysterically and shedding tears. Next, Livvy dons a strap-on and brings Sybil to a happy conclusion. Sybil turns the table on Livvy after donning a hot Domme outfit. Bound in stocks, Livvy gets weights clamped to her nipples and pussy lips before she is spanked, whipped and paddled. When their Master enter the scene, both girls are bound to crosses and ball-gagged. Their fronts are whipped, leaving lash marks on their tender tits, bellies, and pussies. Finally, their endurance is tested with multiple clothespins on the most tender spots. Bonus features include over 120 photos of Sybil and Livvy in a slide show and scenes from other Shadowplayers DVDs.



 

Shadowplayers - Slavegirls

Ariel endures a hogtie while her clothes are cut off, compelled orgasm, whipping, caning, being bound with duct tape, and compelled to relieve herself while cuffed to a metal cross. Melissa is stripped while her nipples are clamped and pulled, then spanked and whipped to an orgasm. She then plays with a collection of dildos and butt plugs, each one larger than the last! Claire Adams is tormented with strong clamps on her tits and very heavy weights on her pieced labia. Kitty is caned in two different sessions...an extreme caning and a caning while trying to keep her feet off painful spikes. She also gets an enema while cage and a strap-on fucking from Claire Adams.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And while writing this blog entry, Fiona has entered even more DVDs! So come check it out now and see what we have available!

 

 

First Video Script Done!

I've just completed my first draft of my first video that I am going to produce for Mall of Erotica. It's entitled The Slutification of Xanorelle and will feature the lovely Xanorelle from fetlife.

In it, the powerful superheroine Xanorelle gets lured into a trap by the devious criminal Vladimir Slutinski and is subjected to his nefarious Slutification Ray, turning her into a dancing stripper for his amusement. Will Xanorelle succumb to the mind-numbing effects of the ray and become Slutinski's slave? Will her mask come off and expose her identity to the world?

Keep checking back to find out!

Delayed Shoot

My first official fetish shoot ended up getting delayed due to problems with the studio space we were renting. Now it looks like the studio won't be available for at least a week and our foot model had gotten a pedicure over a week ago. I was unable to find us an alternate venue. All of us involved are disappointed.

I wish I had the money to rent a space in Winnipeg and convert it into a dedicated studio for kink photography/videography, but that won't be in the works for quite some time yet.

In the meantime, I've been making upgrades to the development version of Mall of Erotica to try and combat the cart abandonment issues we've been having as well as finish up some features that my shopkeepers are patiently waiting for.

The First Shoot

It's been awhile since I first started requesting Winnipeg talent at Mall of Erotica. I must admit it's been difficult to find models appropriate for the type of erotica I want to produce when I have little to no reputation in this city.

So I started attending kink events to make myself known in the city and to let their kinksters out there discover that I'm not just any weirdo with a camera that wants you to take you clothes off: I'm a weirdo with a website! :P

I've had some good model leads and I've been doing well in my photography course, so provided everything works out I'll be doing my first shoot this evening with a male foot fetishist and a female foot model. It's not paid work; the photos will be used by the foot fetishist for his profile on Fetlife and I'll hopefully get enough good photos to start my own portfolio on Fetlife and ModelMayhem.

I've taken lots of pics with of inanimate objects so I'm looking forward to working with people today, especially in a kinky setting.

Hopefully a few pics can be used on the splash page at MoE!

A Great Big Thanks to Tori Leigh!

You know who's awesome?

Tori Leigh, that's who!

Yesterday the beautiful brunette bombshell ran a little contest on Twitter. For all those that retweeted one of her tweets she would pick seven people and do a custom pic of her tits with their Twitter name written across them. Mall of Erotica was one of the lucky seven, and we now have our first "Erotic Friends" picture for the homepage:

How sweet is that? Gorgeous breasts, too!

If you aren't following Tori on Twitter you'd better do so now, because in case you didn't notice, you're missing out on a lot!

And if you're 18+ and would like to be an erotic friend of Mall of Erotica, just send us a kinky pic of you creatively displaying our name and we'll feature you and your website/Twitter link/etc. on our homepage!

Man, what a great start to the day!

On a Personal Note...

Today's entry is about some sad personal news: my father died unexpectedly in his sleep last month. He wasn't ill, there was no warning, my mother didn't even wake up until the morning to find him dead beside her. It was the first death in my family. The entire family is in shock and I've tried my best to hold everything and everyone together. Just about everything else in my life has ground to a halt while I help deal with his estate and try to wrap my head around the reality that my father isn't there anymore.

He was a very religious person and a champion of the downtrodden and abused. I'm sure he wouldn't be too happy if he had found out about Mall of Erotica, but this is where my life has lead me and as long as nobody is hurt by my site I will continue to be proud of it and develop it.

I realize that in the adult industry people are reduced to one-dimensional caricatures based on whatever fetish is the theme, but that is the nature of all entertainment; porn just has a bad reputation because of the taboo nature of sexuality. We have no problem accepting one-dimensional heroes, villains, protagonists or antagonists in mainstream media. Oddly enough, we have no problem with the stereotypical lecherous person who simply wants to have sex with as many people as possible; as long as it isn't outright porn the reduction of those actors and actresses to vapid and shallow roles is perfectly acceptable.

At the end of the day however, actors and actresses are all people like the rest of us, whether they are Oscar winners or homemade porn stars. They have hopes and dreams, beliefs and rituals. They go the bathroom, get sick, gain and lose weight, and grow old. They have loved ones enter their lives and they have loved ones leave their lives.

To all you out there in the erotica and porn community who have lost someone close like I have, my condolences. I wish you all nothing but peace and happiness in your journeys.

In the meantime I must pick up and continue along, though I have little motivation to do so. Last week the first serious female I had interested in doing modeling work backed out, which is unfortunate. I have a few good male candidates but I want to pair them up with a female to make some good femdom or erotic superheroe videos.

A Lesson in User Interface Design

As a new site without a major advertising budget and a set of principles that prevent me from spamming the bejesus out of the Internet to try and draw attention to Mall of Erotica, getting potential customers to the site is half the battle. The second half is getting them to actually buy something.

I carefully track all site interactions through my own code and database. I know most people would opt to use Google Analytics but I have the following reasons for not doing so:

• It's always a great learning experience to write your own code, and analytics data capturing is easy; it's the fancy reporting that Google Analytics does that makes them worthwhile
• I have full access to all the raw data in real time to report on it however I like
• The browsing habits of my users are nobody's business but mine.

That last point is an undervalued one, in my opinon. Google Analytics may be free, but you and your customers give up a fair bit of privacy to Google's ever-watching eyes. And when you run a fetish website people expect their privacy to be maintained so I do my best to keep it all a secret. That's the main reason that the entire site uses secure-sockets layer (https) instead of only during checkout.

Anyhow...as I said above I track all interactions through the site and this past week alone I've seen several people add items to their carts but never checked them out, resulting in a potential loss of revenue of about $56.00USD. Now that doesn't sound like much, but when the average product sells between two and six dollars, $56.00 is a big chunk of change. And a good businessman should always endeavour to get a sale from everyone who steps inside his store.

Now there could be many legitimate reasons for why those people didn't check out their items, such as having a change of heart, or people who just clicked the "Add to Cart" button to see what would happen, but having so many happen in such a short time bothered me.

I took a good look at my product page and realized a major flaw in the design: there was only one "Add to Cart" button, it was located under the main image thumbnail, and once the product was added to your cart you had to go to the top of the page to get to the "View my Shopping Cart" link toc check out. While it made sense when the site was developed I quickly realized that it might not be obvious to the average porn viewer how to actually pay for something once it is added to your cart.

To fix this, I reworked the product page to display a "Check Out" button under the "Add to Cart" button (but only when there are items in the cart), as well as included those buttons under the "Buy" panel on the right side of the screen (which up until today had consisted solely of the word "Buy" and the price):

 

I don't know if these changes will increase my sales, but if it reduces confusion for one shopper and they complete a transaction then it was worth it.

 

The lesson learned from all of this is "when testing, approach your website as if you have never seen it before. If it isn't obvious from a quick glance at the screen how to perform a function it probably won't be obvious to your users".

 

Some free development advice for you :)

The First 100!

Today we reached a milestone! There are now over 100 products for sale at Mall of Erotica!

Thanks to the volume of new eBooks and videos uploaded by shopkeepers like Pink Flamingo Publications, Blair Erotica Books and our newest shop, Alice in BondageLand, we finally hit triple-digits!

When we originally went live last June with all the content restrictions unexpectedly placed on us, I knew that it was going to be a major struggle to attract and retain content providers. And even with the support of a few strangers out there who saw Mall of Erotica as a site with potential we struggled to get up to 50 items. Well since I got rid of my original payment processor and found a better one (only a month or so ago) we've almost doubled the number of items on the site, our hits are up, and our sales are up!

We were so happy with the changes that we're running a special right now for all the shopkeepers. The sales split is normally 68/32 (68% goes to the shopkeepers, 32% comes to us to cover our costs and give us a small profit), but until April 1st, 2013, the split is 75/25! That's right, for every product you sell on Mall of Erotica until April 1st, 2013, you get 75% of the profits! That's how much we love our shopkeepers! If you're a content producer looking for an additional revenue stream, or a home for your erotic content and don't want a lot of content restrictions, come add a shop now!

In terms of brand name recognition, I suspect that 99.9999% of the Internet has never heard of Mall of Erotica. That's fine. We'll get there. Interestingly, however, my efforts to recruit Winnipeg models have caused an uptick in interest from the local kink community. The few friends I have that know about this undertaking have actually had other people come up to them in real life and say "have you heard about this new site, Mall of Erotica?" which to me is very cool.

There's been a rather positive response to my ads for models, both of male and female persuasion and Mistress Trish is going through the applications and will be meeting with those who applied. If you're in Winnipeg, 18 years of age or older, and are interested in doing something fun and kinky check out our application form. We expect to really take off this summer so now is the time to get in on the ground floor of what I plan to turn into the premiere erotic content production company in Winnipeg!

Thank you to everyone for your awesome support!

Looking for Winnipeg's Naughtiest!

We placed the following ad on Craigslist, hit people up on fetlife.com and are repeating it here in the hopes that we attract a few more interested parties:

Calling All Kinksters!

Are you a fun and kinky individual looking to take it to the next level?

Mall of Erotica is a new website run out of Winnipeg and we're looking for adults who would like to have some kinky fun making erotic content. We're seeking models of any size, shape, ethnicity, gender and experience from Winnipeg (and surrounding areas) who would like to get in on the ground floor of this exciting new venture and help build our site into a premiere source of Canadian erotica.

Don't let the thought of nudity scare you away, either! There are plenty of fetishes that don't involve nudity, sexual acts, or even showing your face, so if you're shy and want to try something new and daring with minimal exposure we'd love to work with you!

Check out https://www.malloferotica.com/TalentWanted for more details and our online application form!

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