Zivity.com: a Zivity-Style Sex Photos Idea

Zivity Charges & Pays for Sex Photos. Will it Work?

According to ABC news, Zivity.com is a new pay-for-nudity web-site, for those 18 and over, that is currently being tested to invited members only by its San Francisco area staff. How the site works is that members will pay $10 a month to surf the masses or to promote their own nudity page.

As members surf, they will be allowed to vote 5 times a month on models and photography skills; each vote is worth .80 that is split equally between model and photographer. Since Zivity offers this pay for nude photography, current tax information will be needed from members with this, discouraging the potential underage users.

In my opinion, I am not sure that a site like this can survive over years to become one of our online community household names. Today, when you click into Zivity you will see a very professional looking photo of a blonde girl with too much eye make-up, who is spotlighted with a photographer light over a darkened background.

Perhaps many photographers viewing this promotional photo are thinking that they can do better than that, so they are joining the 30,000-person waiting list to become members. Yet, there's a reality factor every time you invite professional photographers to compete with amateurs; professionals know what they are doing, and people will vote accordingly.

As people sign-up for Zivity and pay their $10 a month, they will be doing so in hopes of making money through votes. This means that all body's and camera gear must remain pristine over time, for members to last longer than one season. At $10 a month, a model and photographer must make $20 in eighty-cent votes to cover their fees monthly.

While it is true that some members will be there as viewers only, this site might be prone to a constant flow of $10 membership cancellations and sign-ups. With any web-site you must develop a solid-core user base that will be with you for as long as the site is alive. Mass nudity that charges users is not conducive to a solid core user-base.