Why do guys sell porn?
 

Tip of the hat to slappass for making me think of this question. I know that the path I took to get to this business was kinda offbeat and not the way most folks got here. I know a lot of you all hide where your adult internet incomes comes from when interacting with people outside the industry and sometimes from those within it.

So I'm wondering what makes a smart tech-literate guy who could get paid doing something else get into this potentially embarrassing biz.

Does it have to do with sex drive, age, education, access to wild women, the excitement of the shame, what?

It's just so fucking easy to make money in this business.

To tell you the truth I don't think there are that many smart people on this site to start with. There are always smart people in every sort of biz, but we have a lot of people who couldn't hold a real job, have a criminal record, don't want to work at mcdonalds type of people in this biz who think they'll get rich quick being the fuckup they are.

Just thought I would share a little holiday spirit there!

To be honest, I was looking for a way to use my pc to make money, and I got an AOL spam telling me I could make millions selling porn.

I could make money in a real job, work my way to the top, work 9 to 5, spend a couple of hours on the way to work, have a boss, all that bullshit and a lot more stuff that I would hate, I would feel miserable and hate my life. So, I sell porn. I need money to live the life I want, and this is an easy way to earn it.

I like working for myself and doing something that has pretty much limitless potential.

If it were as easy to make money in mainstream I'd probably go that route, but unfortunately it's not.

-p

Work is too unpredictable. You never know when you will get laid off... Mostly I want to "retire" next year in that I will be making the same amount of money from online sources as my day job pays. I started of by building vanilla sites and am making money from them and rentacoder.com . I The next logical step is porn. I also like the idea of other people paying me to see my porn, instead of me paying...

:xmas-smil Merry merry.

Do you think the same thing applies to talent in front of the camera? I'm thinking probably in equal measures, but not the only reasons at all.

I worked in the Casino business, they opened a strip bar, I stayed in porn ever since. :bigears

i have a day job aswell as an internet life

I think it applies equally to the talent and of course it goes without saying that it doesn't apply to every single person. But as a generalization it does apply to a large group, if not a majority. Alot of them have nothing else or are too lazy to do anything else so they get in this biz thinking they can get rich doing almost no work.

I do think there are a signifigant portion of people in this biz that are scum of the earth type. There in every biz where there's money but there are a lot of them in this one since it requires virtually no start up money.

I'm a :girl and I sell it for the money. :Oh crap

i think alot of them like the money and the porn pics they get to see everyday lol

The only way to get rich in this country is working for yourself. When you're 18, broke, only have a high school education, no credit history and limited resources... Adult just seemed like the way to make money. Plus, SEX sells, it doesnt matter if the economy is up or down.. sex will always sell.

I always thought a lot of the designers and coders got into this business around 2000 when the dot com bust happened.

Money. Plain and simple

I sell sex toys because:

1) I make great commsions.

2) Sex toys to me are fun.

3) I love selling somthing that hurts no one but lets lots of people have more fun, alone or with a partner.

4) I love working for myself.

5) Great free samples!

I like PC's, working for myself, being able to work or not work whenever I want, the money is good, I like porn, and I love women! :)

Before I sold porn I thought I liked it. But I can not stand most porn. I do it for the money. I backed into and the money was too good to quit. Still is. I do mainstream and some other stuff so if it ever dies I am ok. But in the mean time I will keep making bank.

Because i love pretty women and why not get paid to evaluate them and sell the best of them?...

I want to work from home with my computer, thats why. :)

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So I'm wondering what makes a smart tech-literate guy who could get paid doing something else get into this potentially embarrassing biz.
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I am tech-illiterate :(

I work from home, have a nice office with some entertainment tools. I make up my own working times and have no boss above me + doing business with the cutties, what else can i wish? :food-smil

I was an air traffic controller before I started in this biz. I dont really like porn and I dont care to hang out with people in the porn biz. But what I do like is the fact that I havent set an alarm clock in almost 8 years, I make excellant money, I work from home, and I only work when I feel like it. Its kind of like being semi-retired.

I grew up around it. My grandfather owned a few porn shops here in Philly. When he died my father took over and we lived in an apartment above one of the stores. He added to the bussiness. when he passed on I took over because no one else in the family wanted anything to do with it. I expanded the biz to other states as well and spent alot of time in fricken courts all over the damn place fighting all sorts of dickhead laws and DA's who need a good ass raping. when the internet came along it just seemed like the next move, evolve or die.

My Girlfriend got me into it!

In 1997 my ex-girlfriend (current partner) read an article in Details magazine on Amateur Renee's site (sorry, don't remember the url). She brought it home had me read it and asked if I wanted to do it. I said yes and we went out and bought a PC, a digital camera, and went to work.

for the money, if hotcakes sold online i'd be selling that instead.

money for nothing and the chicks for free :xmas-smil

Simple, I can look at porn all day and my g/f cant say shit cause I can always say I'm workin and if she don't like it she can get her own bitch ass out and start earnin :321GFY

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no others reason for me