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02-21-2007, 09:51 AM
Old article but revealing...
Hinson is the brain trust behind such Websites as 8thstreetlatinas.com (http://8thstreetlatinas.com/), Baitbus.com (http://baitbus.com/), Trannytrick.com (http://trannytrick.com/), and of course, the Bangbus. He controls a porno empire from his $1.8 million mansion on San Marino Drive, overlooking the Venetian Causeway. Details about Ox Ideas are hard to come by, but Hinson got into the business when he and chief operations officer Penn Davis were attending the University of Florida. They had been running free adult Website links, the largest one being Sublime Directory. As novice webmasters in the adult entertainment industry, they set up links to other Websites that required payment. This is a way for fledgling companies to cash in on the sex industry without actually producing any content. These directories list and rank pay sites that do produce their own content, and in turn receive commissions for referrals. After the checks started to roll in, Hinson and Davis decided to pack up, move to Miami, and create Ox Ideas. That was back in 2000, and since then Miami has flourished as a porno paradise rivaled only by Southern California.
Hinson and Davis solidified Miami's position as a pornographer's mecca. The area had been slowly gaining a reputation as an alternative to the West Coast scene; Hustler, Playboy, and a host of other companies had been shooting on South Beach. But it wasn't until the advent of Ox Ideas that our town became a feeding ground for executive pimps. Log on to any of the Ox sites and eventually you are bound to spot someone you recognize.
ReelButts.com (http://reelbutts.com/) was Ox Ideas' first venture into producing exclusive content. It was relatively soft-core compared to their third site, Bangbus.com (http://bangbus.com/), which eventually became the company's flagship.
Bangbus offers an element of verbal abuse coupled with the perception of reality. It is supposed to convey the illusion that what is shown is real, and that this is the way most women would respond. While big productions from Hollywood had marquee names such as Jenna Jameson and Sylvia Saint, Bangbus focused on a more natural look. No longer was porn going to be in the hands of a few distribution companies with lavish sets. Gone were the double-D boob jobs and the wigs. Instead, every effort was made for the scenario to appear as real as the sex.
In just a few years, the Bangbus made a name for itself. T-shirts and bumper stickers bearing the bus logo were a common sight on the streets of Miami. This led to a slew of Magic City copycats attempting, with moderate success, to ride the Bangbus coattails to riches themselves. Each of the copycats added its own flair, but all had the elements of reality porn made famous by Hinson and Davis.
Even though Ox Ideas' principals keep details of its financial dealings to themselves, there is big money in porn.
"We don't feel the squeeze from the down economy at all," Hinson says in an interview published on the industry site AVN Online. "Losing your job isn't going to make you want to stop masturbating; trust me, I've lost several jobs. It's one of the laws of economics; the sixth one, I think. Some things are necessities like food, water, shelter, TiVo, and porn."
The Bangbus formula is simple. As the bus -- really, a white rental van -- drives all over the Miami area, Greg Entner, who "performs" under the name Dirty Sanchez, acts as an antagonistic host and narrator who offers money to supposedly unwitting women in exchange for sexual favors. This is all smoke and mirrors, though. Usually, the people having sex are rookie couples or professional models. Once the women are "convinced" to get inside the van, the action starts, but it's not a pool table quickie approach. The actual sex doesn't come until the last ten minutes of the film. The majority of the time is spent suspending disbelief by capitalizing on the assumption that women will do anything for a few dollars.
Read the entire article (http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2004-10-14/news/the-ride-to-perdition/full)
Hinson is the brain trust behind such Websites as 8thstreetlatinas.com (http://8thstreetlatinas.com/), Baitbus.com (http://baitbus.com/), Trannytrick.com (http://trannytrick.com/), and of course, the Bangbus. He controls a porno empire from his $1.8 million mansion on San Marino Drive, overlooking the Venetian Causeway. Details about Ox Ideas are hard to come by, but Hinson got into the business when he and chief operations officer Penn Davis were attending the University of Florida. They had been running free adult Website links, the largest one being Sublime Directory. As novice webmasters in the adult entertainment industry, they set up links to other Websites that required payment. This is a way for fledgling companies to cash in on the sex industry without actually producing any content. These directories list and rank pay sites that do produce their own content, and in turn receive commissions for referrals. After the checks started to roll in, Hinson and Davis decided to pack up, move to Miami, and create Ox Ideas. That was back in 2000, and since then Miami has flourished as a porno paradise rivaled only by Southern California.
Hinson and Davis solidified Miami's position as a pornographer's mecca. The area had been slowly gaining a reputation as an alternative to the West Coast scene; Hustler, Playboy, and a host of other companies had been shooting on South Beach. But it wasn't until the advent of Ox Ideas that our town became a feeding ground for executive pimps. Log on to any of the Ox sites and eventually you are bound to spot someone you recognize.
ReelButts.com (http://reelbutts.com/) was Ox Ideas' first venture into producing exclusive content. It was relatively soft-core compared to their third site, Bangbus.com (http://bangbus.com/), which eventually became the company's flagship.
Bangbus offers an element of verbal abuse coupled with the perception of reality. It is supposed to convey the illusion that what is shown is real, and that this is the way most women would respond. While big productions from Hollywood had marquee names such as Jenna Jameson and Sylvia Saint, Bangbus focused on a more natural look. No longer was porn going to be in the hands of a few distribution companies with lavish sets. Gone were the double-D boob jobs and the wigs. Instead, every effort was made for the scenario to appear as real as the sex.
In just a few years, the Bangbus made a name for itself. T-shirts and bumper stickers bearing the bus logo were a common sight on the streets of Miami. This led to a slew of Magic City copycats attempting, with moderate success, to ride the Bangbus coattails to riches themselves. Each of the copycats added its own flair, but all had the elements of reality porn made famous by Hinson and Davis.
Even though Ox Ideas' principals keep details of its financial dealings to themselves, there is big money in porn.
"We don't feel the squeeze from the down economy at all," Hinson says in an interview published on the industry site AVN Online. "Losing your job isn't going to make you want to stop masturbating; trust me, I've lost several jobs. It's one of the laws of economics; the sixth one, I think. Some things are necessities like food, water, shelter, TiVo, and porn."
The Bangbus formula is simple. As the bus -- really, a white rental van -- drives all over the Miami area, Greg Entner, who "performs" under the name Dirty Sanchez, acts as an antagonistic host and narrator who offers money to supposedly unwitting women in exchange for sexual favors. This is all smoke and mirrors, though. Usually, the people having sex are rookie couples or professional models. Once the women are "convinced" to get inside the van, the action starts, but it's not a pool table quickie approach. The actual sex doesn't come until the last ten minutes of the film. The majority of the time is spent suspending disbelief by capitalizing on the assumption that women will do anything for a few dollars.
Read the entire article (http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2004-10-14/news/the-ride-to-perdition/full)