Tonight, on Playboy Radio, we discussed our Year in Data, highlighting some of the data we’ve compiled about 2011 releases… but since that data was already published, I thought I’d make some charts and graphs of some of our other stats.
In 2011, we entered data on 9,394 titles, of which 4,366 of them were made in 2011. That breaks down to:
So, after seeing how many we added in 2011, I thought it might be interesting to see how this year’s data entry stacked up to prior years… We didn’t track the dates we added something to the db before 2003; so pre-2003 there were over 53,000 titles already in the database. In 2007, we added gay titles to the database, so our output basically doubled… FUN FACT: The editorial team for gay titles is made up of two people, and neither of them are gay.
We get a lot of corrections, and I was happy to see that we clear most of them up; the blue bars represent corrections we accepted; the red bars corrections we rejected and the green bars are ones we either haven’t gotten to or are under consideration.
Height is something we’re often asked about, so here’s the expected bell curve of women’s heights (in centimeters)…
Have any data you’re interested in seeing plotted? Let us know in the comments and we’ll revisit this topic going forward…
So as I sit, waiting for a respectable time to start drinking, I thought I’d slice up some data that we collected over the past year.
NOTE: These numbers are not indiciative of the industry’s performance, just the part of it that we tracked… we are certain, despite our best efforts, that there are sins of omission… nothing personal.
Before I get into the stats, I’d like to take a moment to thank everyone who has done a search, sent in a correction, served on our editorial staff. This site has become a pretty valuable resource, and it’s been because of everyone involved — surfer, performer, editor, director… thank you for giving us something to jerk off to. It means a lot.
According to Google Analytics, we served 20.7 million unique visitors in 2011, and in that time we served those visitors over 249 million pages. That makes our head spin. To think this site started running off a DSL line in my attic…
Since Jan 1, 2011, our dedicated and tireless editorial staff has entered data on 9,384 titles. Of those, 4,366 were from 2011.
UPDATE: The data was republished at 11:30 AM EST on 01 Jan 2012 to remove appearances in compilations from the tallies. The old data is available at the bottom of this article.
Tonight on Playboy Radio, we talked about New Wave Hookers, Greg Dark’s not-first film (I thought it was his first, it wasn’t; it was probably his second or third; “Let Me Tell Ya Bout White Chicks” came first…)
New Wave Hookers was a milestone of its time – called Hustler’s Film of the Year for 1985 — because it featured hot starlet of the day Traci Lords on the cover (Ginger Lynn is pictured on the DVD cover) and Ginger Lynn had a DP in it. Up until this point, girls as hot at Ginger didn’t do things like DPs, that was left to a, er, skankier class of performer; but Ginger came in and said “Hot girls can get dirty too!” and went on to change the industry forever. There was a rawness to this movie which wasn’t seen elsewhere at the time and that helped it to stand apart.
But, since this movie was made pre-1987 (i.e while Traci was underage) all copies of it had to be recalled and pulled from retailer’s shelves at great cost — both financial and criminal — and the movie was re-cut and re-released, the changes being a re-edit of the opening credits to excise Traci from the parade of New Wave Hookers and a total elimination of her one scene in the movie.
However, since the movie is largely a series of disconnected scenes, cutting her out of the movie was no great feat, unlike the poor folks behind Talk Dirty to Me 3 who had to reshoot LARGE parts of the story with Lisa De Leeuw taking Traci’s part.
The basic story behind the movie is two guys Jamie Gillis and Jack Baker lamenting the fact that they have no girls and that pimps must get a ton of pussy. They fall asleep in front of the TV and wake (?) to find themselves as pimps who will program their ho’s to fuck to the sound of New Wave music. Oddly, Jamie Gillis’ pimp has an offensive Japanese accent throughout.
The production values are minimal. Filing cabinets are made out of cardboard. The rest is pretty bizarre. Steve Powers, a Dark Bros. favorite, plays the office dog, complete with collar and toys to play with. (Not that this stops him from helping his master fuck Desiree Lane when she shows up to join the stable of New Wave Hookers.)
The standout scene is Ginger Lynn‘s pairing with Steve Powers (now graduated to nerd from dog) and Tom Byron (just a nerd). They call for a New Wave Hooker to come service them, and this is where Ms. Lynn performs the aforementioned DP. The whole scene is great and worth renting the movie for.
The rest of the pairings are good, in an odd way. Kristara Barrington controls the second half of the film, fucking Jamie, Jack and Steve Powers.
The film ends with the girls on a merry-go-round; Kristara is with Jamie and Steve Powers; Desiree Lane is back with Steve Drake and go at it; and Gina Carrera and Greg Rome go for a ride as well.
The movie ends with Jack and Jamie waking up and Jamie heading home. On the street, he sees Kristara who acts as if she knows him… so was it all a dream or not?
The last thing about the film that sticks with me to this day via my iPod is the theme song. The Plugz (AllMusic listing) were a Southern California Latino punk band led by Tito Larriva, and their song Electrify Me was tapped to be the theme to most of the movies in the New Wave Hookers series. It’s appeared on “Ranking & Skanking – The Best of Punky Reggae” compilation which is where I finally found it since their original albums are long out of print. According to YouTube, the version used in the movie is quite a bit faster than the version that appears on the Rhino compilation CD and the video below (which features the original cover art)… but it might be a tape speed issue…
FUN TRIVIA: Tito Larriva appeared as Hammy in the original production of The Pee Wee Herman Show — the tape of original show Paul Reubens did at the Roxy that eventually became his TV show…
For the seventh year running (sorry for missing you 2008!), here’re some titles to get you in the Christmas spirit!
You might want to check out last year’s Obligatory Christmas Post which covers some of last year’s on-line goodies as well…
This year, Naughty America bring us Nicole Aniston in an episode of “My Dad’s Hot Girlfriend” where she needs to convince Kris Slater and Dane Cross to dress up like elves and help bring gifts to the orphanage. (Spoiler alert: it involves blowjobs)
Over at Brazzers, they’ve got a bit more going on.
Ariella Ferrera stars in the Mommy Got Boobs episode, MILF and Cookies… when her butler James Deen eats all the cookies she’s left for Santa (Tommy Gunn), she’s left with little choice as to ensure her presents on Christmas. (Spoiler alert: It involves getting DP’d by Santa and her cookie eating butler.)
