Thanks for the replies y'alls.
Sounds like most that responded at least take some pride in the $$$ they make on their own terms, and a few get some personal satisfaction from being good at their craft or even are a little idealistic about it. Sounds good to me.
It's posts like the ones below that made me start this thread. In the first one the dude has nothing but total contempt & hatred for the girls he shoots, and you get a sense a big dose of self-loathing too - obviously a bitter dude but I wonder how common his thoughts are in our biz:
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Originally Posted by philguy
You know...there are times when I look at the poison I pump into households for nothing more than financial gain and I wonder, "Is this really the right thing to do?".
I have moments of self doubt. I've seen things I'd hope no normal person could even imagine enjoying and see the punters pay top dollar for it. But it's sweet...very very sweet when I get to see porn tramps try to think. The twink shit porn, fake underage shit, the monster cock ravaging, the pissing, just to name a few...those depravities fade away, when porn whores try to actually engage the world beyond doing another line or utilizing their ability to do a DP as something to be proud of...
Why is it sweet you might ask? I'll tell you. As long as porn exists, instead of my tax dollars going to support your totally inept ability at life devoid of something doing with cum being on or in you, my tax dollars will go to help hopefully someone who might deserve it. As long as there's a cock to suck or a creampie scene to shoot, or some idiot sugar daddy to fleece, I take solace in knowing that maybe some poor child somewhere is getting at least a part of that check I have to cut every quarter.
Gangbang on sister. You help poor children in this country in ways you can't imagine.
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Or then this one, where a guy talks about shifting over to mainstream work. Maybe it's more of a financial success thing, but in that last quote doesn't sound like he was too proud of his porn stuff either:
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Originally Posted by Socks
Also I've used tons of the things I learned over the years running my sites at my new job, and I'm learning so much more that I would have never learned if I just kept looking at porn all day.
I've new side projects of my own coming up, I'm outsourcing instead of doing everything myself so I can scale, and I'm a partner in a new business with 2 multimillionaires.
All in a year.
The best part is that people look up to me now, instead of just me looking down on myself.
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It's interesting to me - our product is ostensibly about pleasure and good times, and its core purpose is to bring "enjoyment" to people, you'd think we'd be celebrated by society at large.
Yet instead the majority think what we do is wrong, or at least distasteful, and it can get kinda tiresome to navigate all that in non-porn circles. Even though I'm totally into slinging vintage smut and think in its own tiny way it's good for society to learn about the history of sexuality & whatnot, I've gotta be careful which of my mainstream clients know I'm involved with it. Sometimes that does get kinda old.