why did u get started in the adult industry?

[liquid]

Just curious as to why all of you guys are working in the adult industry... is it the lucrative opportunities? your sexual nature? or because you have no idea and this would be something cool to start? why are you guys in this industry and not lets say... the non-adult industry?

[MrCockTale]

because my sister's boyfriend was in this
industry..

[Tanker]

Non adult internet wasnt making any money
someone sent me to porncity a few years ago to check it out and I was hooked



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[TheFLY]

I was about to graduate w/ a degree in art -- and my boss at the ISP I worked at was a total moron -- he got all his startup money from daddy -- and I had heard some people making big money on this porn stuff -- new cars and gold chains and shit -- I figured wtf do these guys know that I don't know -- the www is just html -- how hard could that be. I had already been running BBS's for years as a kid -- so I knew how to write simple programs -- I wrote a script in java which basically trolled the internet for pics and webmaster emails (I didn't know that hotlinking was bad ;) -- and then I sent emails to all the webmasters telling them that I had hotlinked all their pics and that I would also link their site if they linked to my pic engine -- hehe -- well needless to say I got a few legal threats and one of the webmasters contacted the ISP that I worked at -- not sure if my boss found out what I was doing, but the people in the office thought it was funny as hell. Anyway after a bit more trial and error I came upon a successful formula and I think I got lucky w/ one of the search engines -- then hooked up w/ Steve from pornqueens.net (think I got his attention w/ all that search engine traffic) and from there I was pretty hooked up. When I graduated from college, and about the same time my ISP was bought out -- quit my job -- I decided to go full time. For a while I was living on Checker's hamburgers because AdBucks in Canada was fucking me over w/ checks that were three months late -- and I tried a lot of ad programs that didn't convert my traffic... but I think the moment of truth was when I was on the phone w/ Tommy from tommys-bookmarks.com and he told me about all these TGP punks that were making tons of money w/ AP so I tried it and fell in love ;)

-- There are a few people (some girls will think you're creepy hehe ;) uncomfortable w/ the idea of you running a porn site -- but most of my friends are pretty open minded and recognize the important role that porn plays in our society ;) Anyway all the money that I make w/ AP has allowed me to live a modestly comfortable life -- I have the time and resources to help out my friends when they it -- and I have enough time to work on my paintings. Another thing about AP that is cool is that you're promoting something that was done w/ some taste. I have a little more pride promoting AP than something like animalcash.com

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[silentK]

I surfed into Ynot in '97 and used to read it daily; it was entertaining, sorta like a soap opera. That hooked me )

I worked at a Ford Dealership running the Body Shop, and spent most of my time working on sites from my office. Management thought it was really cool, and gave me alot of leeway.

If it wasn't for those two things coming together, I'd probobly still be "flippin burgers" hehehe...

[RRRED]

I caught my husband surfing porn and figured I'd get even. Now he's only turned on my turtleneck sweaters.

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[blakkfrogg]

I work in both worlds. Non-Adult site maintenance by day...... Maniacal pornslinger by night.

I got into it for the sake of having a good reason to look at T'n'A and nothing is a better motivator than money. Besides, why PAY to look at stuff you can GET PAID to look at it?

Blakk Frogg = Mercenary Pervert. LOL

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[Techie Media]

BlackFrog is on the same path. Wife and I used to surf just to get Horny and then go fuck like rabbits. so i decided to try to make a few bucks at it. The plan didnt quite work out as i planned, I do make a few bucks but after all the damm work Iam so tired i cant get it up...hahhaha

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http://www.lightningfree.com

[fredicus]

I figgered it's gotta be cheaper ...


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[Lynn]

Hubby got hurt at work, so I knew he'de be siting on his ass for a while. Didn't want him driving me crazy.So we baught a pc. He was playing and looking for porn as I'm sure most guys do. He started wemastering and playing around a bit. I went to a webmaster chat room he hung around in one day and was just chatitng, showed a guy my pic and he made a comment wow you should show on the net you'de make a bunch of money. Well I had just quite my job so the little light went off in my head, and I checked it out, now I love it.
I show on a busy site and it's great, meet lots of interesting people.
We're also making enough money to pursue other endevers.

[blakkfrogg]

Congrats, Lynn, on being able to make the transition into full-time adult webmastering. That's still a dream of mine, but for right now the daytime non-adult stuff pays my bills and the adult stuff occupies my free time and pays for a few luxuries, but not as many as I'd like.

I'll get there one day, though. I'm quite certain of it. All I have to do is finish serving this 23-year sentence for Assault w/ a Deadly Amoeba and I'll be all set.

In all seriousness, though, congratulations. Same goes for the rest of you that made that leap of faith.

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[Lynn]

hehehehe Hubby messed around for 2 years and din't make much money.
I've got an edge heheh, I've got tits and am not to shy with them. LOL

Just joking, thanks for the compliment.
Kisses

[Tanker]

lets hear some more!!

these are good

[Lynn]

I am not shy at all. I show everything. hehehe and have some real fulltime regs. wich is verry cool. I've got a big huge trunk with all sorts of toys. Just depends on what the viewer wants, I do almost everything, hey everyones got there limits right.
Kisses & Lixxx
Lynn

[JT]

I was working as a cellular phone salesman when I met a friend of the owner of my store. He was making 10 times what I was making and I was doing really well at the time. We became friends and he showed me what he was doing and how to do it. That and my love of computers got me to where I am today..... Broke and disgusted ;-) just kidding.. I love what I do with a passion.
The money is just a nice side effect.

John

[boneprone]

My bro from the fly got me into it.. Then the checks from Amateur Pages kept me in.. In return since I signed up under thefly using his refferal code, I now pay his rent with my clicks!

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[12clicks]

mojo told me it would make us rich. I said,"ok"

[Tanker]

Liquid where did you go?

[liquid]

these are a RIOT!!! I love'em..keep'em going.. and yep, i'm still here tanker, it just takes me a while to read it!!!

I actually got started through a personal friend of mine named Slavik. Anyone in this business for a while knows Slavik...well known adult webmaster. I went to middle school and high school with him. He didn't introduce me into this business til the college years where he walked by me and said...hey, check out my porn sites... gave me the address to two porn sites, pureporn.com and teenfilth.com. lol next thing you know, he wanted to teach me everything about this business.... and so be it, here i am!!!

[slavdogg]

Liquid, i think u and 12clicks have something in common )

[blakkfrogg]

Geez. Why won't someone grab me by the back of my scrawny neck and show ME how to make a few million bucks? Huh?

Oh wait. I'm too tall. Most people can't reach my neck. Once again, being tall has caused me to miss out on one of the good things in life. *sigh*

Well, I guess I'll just settle for being an evil little Froggy with no money and a heart made of fermented barley and hops. Oops. I meant to say 'gold'.

On a side note, I remember the name Slavik from Netpond's msg board, I think.


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[Bake]

I got started buy makeing some avi's for a prouduct I was makeing to show how it worked then 1 day surfing round I e'mailed a porn site asking how it all worked well he mailed me back and we got talking and he didn't know how to make avi's so he showed me how to write some basic code and I showed him how to do avi's then I e,mailed AP and they told to go to porncity and learn got some books got lucky early on with some HUN postings and thought this is easy ha it took 6 months to make real money again. Now I just won't to learn the graffic side of things and how to get good listings on SE I think porn as we know it will change a lot soon as web TV comes along.
Bake

[Grimez]

Damn you liquid, I think you'll win the contest.
Here's how I got into the business. I was always in newsgroups collecting pics. My senior year in College my thesis was on Internet Censorship. So I did lots and lots of research on sites. I got intrigued and decided I wanted to run a website. This guy I knew online from MIRC told me about porncity. He was running a site. I signed up with porncity, placed all of my stolen pics up (100% Black celebrities) and didn't have any sponsors. I had almost any black celeb you could think of. In little to no time I was getting 10k in traffic a day. Then my mirc friend asked me if I wanted to go to jail for stolen pics. So I bought 2 cds and replaced all the pics. Traffic seemed to double. Then I found PCBBS. Mayor told me to try out his raw click program. So I signed up for it and another program Playwithme(Casino program) Mayor paid other guys ripped me off. I used some info from running my site in my thesis. When I graduated I kept the site running. I was making very little. Then this dude named TuffRuff asked me to signup under him. We were doing around 4 to 5000 clicks a day for lensman (I can't even count the signups). Life was good. And then I stopped doing porn to take care of my granny, and now I do porn part-time. But, i'm getting back into it.

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[Rose]

I started in 1997 and back then
it was easy money.You just posted your link
on free for all link page and next day you got 2 000 hits.Plus no TGP's were around
people still had to pay to get smut.

[XxCrackNuggetxX]

Im 16 Now And I Plan On Being A Big Porn Start When I Grow Up...How Phat Is A Job Where You Get Laid 4 Money And The Chicks Cant Say No? I Wanna Do It Not Just 4 The Sex But 4 The $$$$$ They Make Mad Loot

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[XxCrackNuggetxX]

And Oh Yeah I Talked 2 Jenna Jameson And She Told Me That Porn Is Safe And Fun...I Take Her Word...

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[Tanker]

Liquid

When you get back from Tahoe let me know and and make sure you stop by on monday


Tanker

[liquid]

woo hoo...4:39am and i'm wide awake. getting ready for a great day in tahoe land! great snow guys... everyone should hit the slopes this weekend. 3-4 foot dump! Incredible!!!

slavdogg - where my boys at? woof woof! lol love you man! i think 12clicks said it for all of us so we all have something in common with 12clicks! lol

grimez - don't worry, i usually share my prizes! hehehe I like how you got into this business... now exactly what year was this when you first started?

EVYERONE - i guess this question would be to everyone. Besides HOW you guys started, what year did all of you start???

Tanker - leaving in about 2 hours...be back sunday. Will PROBABLY come see you guys monday!

"Success is a journey, not a destination!"
Liquid

[Tam]

I have 4 kids to feed, don't believe in Daycare and had the need to help my hubby with the bills......

That is the short of it.... you want the long one, wait for my novel. LMAO
Tam

[Stallion]

I got into this business as a few friends were making some really good money. So I figured what the hell and jumped on the wagon and have been riding it ever since :-)

[Tanker]

and a good wagon it can be as long as you dont get on the short one

[Tanker]

Stallion thats how I got into it

[Rip]

I had this big collection of chat room traded pics which I wanted to make into a porn collection, and paste on a free site

when I went to the p/c bbs, there was this overriding theme of making money

my ears perked up

then someone told me I needed licensed pics, fortunately I had a cd rom I bought which was licensed for BBS's... loosely interpreted that into licensed web content

started an avs a couple free sites and got my first cheque for $25 in feb 98 and I think my first a/p cheque a month or two later

from there I completely got hooked

well the p/c bbs has changed a little since then, and I think it is a little tougher to make money

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[Stallion]

Tanker,

hahaa yep thats for sure. The short wagon is definately the wrong one to jump on.

[Grimez]

Liquid I started my first site in November 1998

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Hey, I'm Dabomb!

[Tanker]

Grimez whats up

[Scraper]

My Sister got me involved.

She was designing porn sites for ScottPB.
Gave me some pointers, and it was all on!


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Green air...its better than clean air.

[Tanker]

lets hear some more stories

[Exxxotica]

Ive always loved Porn....so I figured why not make some money with it!

[basschick]

my son (who's a grownup) and i had phonesex lines we were advertising. we decided to try promoting them on the internet, as well as in print.

we had no computer, i had never seen a bbs (although michael had), and we were spending $10 an hour searching for link trades at an internet cafe-sorta place; then paying someone to make our webpages.

our trades were successful enough for us to have to find better hosting - we were soon maxing out our non-adult host's lines... and soon we said "fuck the phonesex" and started making more money from our click sponsor, the dirty bird's nest.

the rest is history ;-)

[ammo325]

HTML looked interesting in a book I found in the bookstore. Then one late night while entertaining my self, I stummbled into Porncity and clicked on a webmaster link. Wow I could design my own pages and get paid for it. Too cool. A good excuse for me to look at naked women. So here I am

[Jamdin]

I started with non-adult freehosts as a place for my writings & my likes. I still have my website at http://www.angelfire.com/ks/dreamrealm (unfortunately, I ran out of space a few months ago). When I wanted to put up some of adult fiction, I noticed that angelfire's terms excluded anything adult. Being one who didn't want to get into any type of trouble, I went looking for adult freehosts. Eventually, I found my way to PornCity.net & others. The rest, they say, is history

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[liquid]

Just got back from a wonderful weekend at lake tahoe. The snow was incredible!!! there was so much snow that you couldn't NOT get first tracks SOMEWHERE! everyone who skiis or snowboards know that this past weekend was awesome!!! In california at least... anyways...

we all have friends and aquaintences <sp?> we meet people and new faces almost every single day... I know i do. Usually people will ask you what you do for a living...and we all know that the "porn" aka adult industry is not a very well respectable job or business to be in.... do you guys just flat out tell people you're in this business or try to beat around the bush??? I know i've tried to cover my job by stating that I run an online advertising business... what about you?

"No one can predict to what heights you ca soar until you spread your wings."

Liquid

[adsproul]

WEll liquid, when you told me to move back to Cali and we could party, and school was cheaper here, how could I refuse. When i sat there watching you make money, AND get to look at naked chicks, I thought, Hell, I could do that and make a few bucks on the side. So there I sat till like 6 am on GOTO looking for good names and all i got was hymenphoto.com... not too great, but it was something.. got me hooked.. i thought there might be a little money in it, and next thing you know, i found out there was alot of money in porn.. WHO KNEW?

[liquid]

i did..

shhh...don't tell anyone!

Liquid

[Rictor]

I liked to look at porn, but I wasn't willing to pay for it...I've never undestood why people pay for porn on the Internet actually. The best stuff is free in the newsgroups and on IRC. Still, once in a while I would come across an Adult Check site that I really wanted to check out...so being the cheap bastard that I am...I made an Adult Check site on some free host (probably Tripod...I was a lamer newbie, okay?) and got a free Adult Check ID. I also made like $50 before it got deleted. I was hooked from there.

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"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."

[neonliquid]

bump this shit back to the top. a little piece of history for us all.

[kowalsky]

Because it used to be too easy to make money with it and working in this shit gives me the freedom enough to travel around...

[aico]

Because saying no to Alley Baggett was really hard to do.

[Tom_PM]

Wow. History here.