Category: Discussion

AltPorn Awards Entry Clock Ticking

Be sure you have your AltPorn Best of 2010 nomination entries in soon. We’ve received some great entries so far, but there is more good work out there. Don’t...

AltPorn.net: Be a Writer for APN

AltPorn.net is opening up a position or two for entry level writers. Do you enjoy alternative erotica? Do you think you could write about it with an informative and...

Ariel X: Advice to New Girls

Some of our staff found some good advice for new models written by one of our favorite models and since we are often asked about some of the issues she talks about, we...

The Many Styles of Azrael

I made a post the other day saying that there were a lot of hot girls named after the angel of death and that Burning Angel even had two girls named Azrael. The Azrael I...

The Evolution and Perception of Ethics in AltPorn

Idealistic concepts get thrown around a lot in the world of AltPorn, ethical standards, feminist ideals, creative freedom, participant rights, standards of respect, etc....

Sexy Sugasm Linkage

Here is a roundup of interesting reading (and viewing) brought to us by our friends over at Sugasm. I recommend at least checking out the 20 question interview with sexy...

AltPorn: Interviewed by the San Fransisco Bay Guardian

San Fransisco Bay Guardian‘s intrepid Juliette Tang continues her journey into the altporn world, to paraphrase their description. In her endeavor to explore the...

San Fransisco Bay Guardian: AltPorn

APN is proud that our man Cutter Smith was recently interviewed and subsequently quoted in an article in the San Fransisco Bay Guardian, titled Hipsters and the...

EroticBPM: Killshot Opens Up About Zivity, Paypal, Patents, and the Decline of DIY Creativity.

Killshot, altporn O.G. and long time friend of APN, who has been running EroticBPM for nearly a decade, worked with Fatal Beauty, and also launched SpicePlay in 2004,...

Lithium Picnic: Slaps Supporters in Face

I caught this hilarious post by Lux Nightmare on Fleshbot the other morning and thought it was just too funny not to share. The underlying story of how Philip Warner,...

LiveJournal: AltPorn Community Resurrected

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve gotten our grubby mitts on the AltPorn LiveJournal Community and resurrected it from the dead. So, site owners, models,...

Image Standards Question

When you are browsing your favorite AltPorn sites, what size images to you enjoy most? For vertical or portrait images, lately we’ve seen sites running all sorts...

AltPorn Question: Branding Models

At what point is it ok for a site to make their name become part of the girl’s name? Is it a certain number of sets and/or videos? Is it only ok for the first one...

Question About Listing Photo Credits

Some sites are good about listing photo credits for their photo sets and some seem to only list credits if they are very impressed with the photographer. Historically,...

How do you feel about kinky?

As readers of Altporn.net, we wanted to know how you feel about the crossover of fetish and altporn as genres? There are certainly models that do work in both areas....

What do you think of the new look?

There are still some rough edges, but the new design seems to be pretty much a go. What do you think of it?

Today’s question: What is altporn?

What is altporn to you? Is it naked punk rock or goth chicks? Is it necessarily pornography? If not, is there a more appropriate moniker?