Just curious really...

Prices for explicit wet-look videos, on average, seem to be sold at a cheaper rate than an equivalent length explicit messy video...

Just wondered if there is there a reason for this? Are they seen as less work involved therefore worth less in terms of payment? Or are they just less popular?

Hope no-one minds me asking, I've put a little poll together, there are no wrong answers

You've got a point.
I think there are just more messy fans out there than wetlook fans!
I like both, but wetlook is definately my preference.
It's not so much being explicit that matters to me, but more the scene.
Some wetlook scenes just grab me, the fun element especially and wet hair, swimsuits, t-shirts and shorts!
Peter

With experience as a professional producer, you can shoot way more clean/wetlook content in a day than messy, so there that additional cost, as well as the additional cost of supplies (where water is much closer to a zero overhead).
Those will be the main reasons for the discrepancy imo.

That's the great thing about wetlook!
No mess, no clean-up, no cost, just get wet and have fun!
Mind you, I did play with clear slime recently, which was brilliant.
It wets you but clings and stays, rather than running off.
Perhaps the best of both wet and messy?
Peter

Generally speaking, the market for messy content is evenly split between those who want explicit / nude scenes, and those who want fully clothed.

Wetlook on the other hand skews very heavily to clothed and non-sexual, the majority of wetlook fans want to see fully clothed people getting soaked, mostly without any explicit content, as includung that tends to take away from the clothed content. UMD is a bit of an outlier in allowing nude content in the wetlook forum, most places that support wetlook define it as fully clothed and no swimwear - although the line blurs a bit if full-cover swimsuits which are more like actual clothing are used. But generally, no nudity, no bikinis, no traditional one-piece swimsuits.

This means the market for explicit wetlook is probably not that large, hence lower prices charged in order to get sales. Plus of course wetlook is vastly simpler and quicker to do for both producer and models than messy work is, no cleanup needed between scenes, meaning lower costs of production, and possibly lower model fees per scene too.

Thanks for all the info and advice everyone, it's most appreciated