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LadyMischief · 07-05-2003, 08:37 AM

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Originally posted by Carrie
You're all responding as if his only options were to tell her no or to let her do it.

Saint, have you ever thought of *asking* her not to?

Or how about - now that she's 18, take her aside and tell her that you need someone to help you in the business (like Hugh Hefner did with his daughter and Playboy) and now that she's of legal age, she can work with the material and help you out.
Explain to her that the real money is *behind* the camera, not in front of it.
There's plenty of things to do in porn that won't put her in front of the camera... what does she like to do?
Is she artistic? Is she good with a camera? She could be a photographer.
Is she mathematical? She could help you with traffic, ratios, ROI, etc.
How about websites? Most kids these days have websites before they're 10 and you said she had a Yahoo page. She could help you build and maintain your sites.

There are all kinds of things you could have her do that do NOT involve getting in front of the camera and that could give her that 'fix' for doing something 'naughty' that she's needing but still making good money. And by approaching her from the position that "you're old enough to get into the business now, so I'd like you to become a partner in my business" (just as millions of mainstream, brick-and-mortar parents do everyday with their kids), then you're showing her that you both recognize that she's grown up and is an adult, and that you trust her.
And while you talk to her about it (as if you're trying to convince her to get into the biz), you can keep stressing how the models don't make the money, it's the guys behind the cameras and behind the sites that make the money. A model can get $300 for a shoot, the guy behind the site can get $3000 if he works that photo set the right way.

Treat her as a fellow adult, not just your child.

Do NOT take photos of your daughter. Jesus I can't believe the people on here are suggesting that. Can you imagine how fast the man could be racked up by the state on incest charges?

Start treating her as a business partner. Take her to Internext. Let her see the business side of things where the *real* business of money is taking place, and then take her to the parties - like a TopBucks party, for example, where the girls are treated like raw meat - and the whole time, keep mentoring her about where the money really is in the business. Explain to her about how the photographers snapping the pictures and egging the girls on will make approx $X off of the pictures they're taking; the webmasters who buy the photos will make approx $XXX off of the same pictures, and the girls won't get a dime for those pictures (other than the flat fee they're getting, if any, for being a 'booth bunny' or 'internet babe').

Best of luck.

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