so, i tried on "PORNOGRAPHER" for size, today...
 

Every chance i got, today, I steered the direction of the conversation towards "And, what do you do?" with various people I encountered in the course of my San Francisco Day.

Fun results:


Subject: Female, Race: Asian, Age: About 60|
Location: Lobby of my building |

ME: "I'm a pornographer... I sell porn, dirty pictures..."
HER: "Ooooooooooooooh... dirty pictures..."
ME: "Uh-huh"
[2 MINUTE SILENCE]
HER: [With sudden alarm] "You are in the dirty pictures!?"
ME: "No, I just sell them."
HER: [Somewhat puzzled] "You make the dirty pictures!" [makes camerman gesture with fist, round and round]
ME: "No, no...I... you know the Internet...?"
HER: "Yah."
ME: "On the Inernet... sell... on the Internet
HER: [On the threshold of understanding] "Web site?"
ME: "Yah."
HER: [Hold hands to mouth, suddenly] "Oh, you make a lotta money!" [Laughter]
ME: "I do a'right"



Subject: Male, Race: White, Age: About 45 |
Location: Smoking outside Japanese restaurant |

ME: "I'm in online porn, I'm a pornographer."
HIM: [Does a double-take] "No kiddin'! Oh, you're gonna love this... I've got a list of friends by e-mail..."
ME "Right."
HIM: "I'm the one that gets them all the porn!"
ME: "Is that right" [Grins broadly]
HIM: "Yeah, I know all the good sites."
ME: "Cool. Like which ones?"
HIM: [Scratches chin for a second] "Ive got 'em all bookmarked... Oh, I know! Sleazy's Dream, that's one..."
ME: "Oh, you know SleazyDream.com? I'm actually friends with the owner..."
HIM: "Well, how 'bout that... I always send my friends stuff from there."
ME: "Very cool. So how many friends on this little list of yours?
HIM: "Oh, man, a lot... These are really friends of friends of friends. I never really e-mail with 'em or anything. Just send 'em stuff."
ME: Hmm! Very interesting. Well, you know, if you'll send some good stuff around to your friends, I'll take real good care of you..."
HIM: "Sure, that's be great!"
[Exchange business cards]



Anybody else got tales / transcripts from Pornville?








2HP

Good stuff :1orglaugh

That second one is a surfer waiting to join :)
WG

I was at In and Burger once with a bunch of friend while on a road trip. It was lunch time and the place was packed. People were sharing tables with each other, and my friends and I were sharing a table with an older couple. The conversation quickly turned to what we did for a living and I said I shoot porn for a living.

You never saw to old people eat so damn fast!

LOL, I could actually see the little Asian lady's face, haha, great description!

Whenever my friends introduce me to their friends, they have to let it drop that I work in porn, which usually gets all kinds of "wow, cool!" type responses..particularly because I'm a girl, and their girlfriends probably don't like them to even look at porn, lmao.

Years ago, I got a shirt from Greenguy that had his warning page on the back. After dinner with my then wife's friends, one of them asked where did I get the shirt. I told him I was friends with Greenie and he gave it to me at a convention. He then went off on where he goes, Tommy's Bookmarks, I told him, I know Tommy well, Persian Kitty, I used to chat with her back in the Sextracker IRC days, and the list goes on. True to form of everyone who found out back then what I did for a living, I got asked, "Can you get me passwords to this paysite?" :)

One of the funnier times in the past was when I walked my dog forgetting I was wearing Busty Amateur's shirt I got at a convention that said, "I Love Porn". The faces of my HO president as she drove by me while I waved at her oblivious to what I was wearing.

That second one is my new spammer -- :winkwink:

2HP

I guess, I should also say, that back in the day, telling a girl you did porn got either got you laid at some point, or looked at like you were scum.

It was usually looked at scum, but the ones that liked it, really liked it you were in porn.

I don't know if it's because of my past, or what. But when I read that about him sending his friends stuff, I automatically started thinking, that's a great opt in list that won't get sent to spam cop or spews. :)

Happens to me all the time. The wife and I look up from our animated conversation which has included the terms "fisting", "DP", "prolapse of the rectum" and "snake porn" -- to list just a few -- and realize every fork in the restaurant is hovering near a mouth -- :1orglaugh


2HP

Great thread, gonna have to bookmark this for later.

Nite y'all.

He said later it's about 600 white guys who play golf! NO FOOLIN' -- ! -- I almost spit out my Sapporo.

2HP

You should see the looks I got wearing a t-shirt from ALT.com -- :small-smi -- they list like 50 different fetishes and BDSM activities on the back -- :zzwhip -- yep, i just looooove to talk about altocalciphilia at the Dairy Queen -- :1orglaugh

2HP

I'll have to try this out this weekend. Maybe I'll tell Mom - Not

I can tell the entire country here that I work in porn, and only a small % will understand what I mean. I speak english, and they dont.

actually there are a bunch of people that know we do porn as well as main stream, and they dont care. Lucky they dsont ask us for passwords. But they do ask for copies of our magazine.

My mom knows what I do. Makes it a lot easier to go to conventions and get shit done when I don't have to be all sneaky. She doesn't like it, but as long as she doesn't have to help me with the mortgage, she doesn't complain, lol.

I like to walk around with my Extreme Pay "i sell drugs' shirt on and a giant scowl, then nobody talks to me at all. :)

I am enjoying these stories, keep em coming!

great thread :thumbsup

everyone just assumes i'm a drug dealer because i wear hawaiin shirts, wear a baseball cap & shave bi-weekly

so my conversations usually consist of

Them: You got any weed?
Me: Nope, i sell tits online
Them: Yea right

Absolutely classic! Especially the 2 mins of silence from the Asian woman :)

that's very funny. LOL

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I love it when someone at the club says they "know the owner" of one of my sites and are "real good friends" - :)

Hahaha....this guy I vaguely know tried to tell my girlfriend that he went to school with the guy who designed Jenna's site, and that he (the guy) made better marks in college than the designer for Jenna. Now, I've seen the work this dude does, and I've never even gone to school for design or web design, and even I could blow this guy out of the water.

What sealed the deal was when he started telling me his firned advised that my girlfriend could do camshows and accept payment on Paypal, and told him about Ibill. I said there's no way in hell this guy works in adult and doesn't know that is horrible advice, lolol. He also told her to save the $2 and buy a .net instead of a .com. :helpme

lol this is some good shit. keep'em comming.

Here's my story:

I took a rather large check to my bank around 5ish so the bank was packed and asked to cash the check. The teller said she'd have to ask the manager since she didn't have enough in her box to pay out. So I stood there for a few minutes while they stood near the back of the bank wispering and glaring.

After about 10 mins the manager walks up and asks me what the check is for. I was like wtf? Why does it matter? She tells me she's just verifying the validity of the check. I think she was just mad that my 1 check was bigger than like 6 of hers combined. lol. I told her it was commission for some sales work I did. She didn't believe me lol. This went back and forth for like 10 minutes of me telling her what it was and her insisting it wasn't really a commision check. So, as you may guess I was getting pissed. Thus, I said "I sell PORN on the internet!" in a very stern tone. The manager looked like I just dropped my pants and slapped her on the forehead with my cock. :1orglaugh

Everyone in the bank stopped what they were doing spun around and stared at me! lol you could hear the jaws hitting the floor. :1orglaugh

I think because of that, the bitch of a manager told me she can't cash it but she can deposit it and hold it for 5 business days, turned into like a week and a half though. Whatever though, it was SO worth the reaction I got.

lol! i can imagine.. i also have a fair share of akward moments when they find out i'm into this kind of biz. lol nice stories here really.

awesome stories. I never really had any kind of encounters like any of these to speak of.

About this time last year is when I figured out HOW to sell porn on the internet... Took me about 9 months of trolling before I figured out how to grow a TGP, create galleries that convert and create free sites that SE's will send paying traffic to.

So a buddy of mine from high school (16 years ago) calls me and says he is taking people to the river for a week. Guys only, then we are going to Vegas for his bachelor party.

So we are in two boats anchored in shallow water on the first night talkin and drinking... Nights coming to a close. About 15 of us. Someone asks my buddy with the river pad what he does for a living, UPS Account Manager, next, Bank Loans Manager, Real Estate Agent, Commercial Real... blah blah... Chef.... Bar Tender... Mass Mailer (snail mail)... blah blah... Tire Changer (Just Tires I guess...)... I sell porn on the internet... [crickets] [cough] [crickets] [swig of beer] [hit of joint] [crickets] [crickets] WHAT? DUDE! You sell porn on the internet? WTF? What sites do you own? Can you get me a password too [insert 15 concurrent requests of a password here]... Fuck... why'd I open my fucking mouth...

I usually just tell people I work in affiliate marketing. They usually assume that means Amway and all attention is diverted away from me.

tell your mom that you post non sense on a adult webmaster board for chicken feed for each post you do? Sorry but thats not adult work :error

My first few sites were solo model sites, so as part of our local Member retention activities, we held periodic parties that the Members could attend so that they could meet the models, and sometimes some of the guest models ("friends"), in person.

As a result I have some Members that have been with all of my sites for anywhere from 3-5 years. They have provided locations, clothes and all kinds of other favors in exchange for the opportunity to be a part of the behind the scenes projects that I invite them too. Several have become friends or part of my focus group (and these guys don't blow smoke up anyone's butt - they know what they want and expect as a Member).

Overall, I am pretty discreet about my adult biz, however periodically I'll be talking to someone and the talk turns to porn. It is such a rush when I tell people about my site and then they say they have already seen it. It's really pretty gratifying (although a good percentage are like...pshaw, right...you're the photographer/webmaster for that site - no way!!!).

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lols, that's crazy to tell to his mom.

i always just say im in internet advertising and marketing lol

Thats funny jack

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Subject: Female, Race: Caucasion/Dutch, Age: About 20
Location: Clothes Store

[me] heya youve got that card system where you can collect points and get free clothes right
[her] yeah gotta buy for 500 and get 50 free, takes a few months but its worth it
[me] cool can you pick me 500 worth of tight tops really short skirts and stuff like that

BIG SILENT BREAK

[her] ok, lemme get some, this is a gift for your gf right?
[me] no I sell porn on the inet and a shipping got hold up by customs so we need clothes for a shoot tomorrow
[her] BLUSH

WALKS TO REGISTER CHATS WITH TWO OTHER GIRLS... BIG SMILES EVERYONE

[her] SO... do these girls make a lot?
[me] millions
[her] cool cool lemme help you, do you want me to try on stuff so you can look?
[me] HELL YEAH

Wasnt the last visit :)

llporter why is your homepage google?

Bella-Seaira

OH GOD! Reminds of a story!

Back in 2000, when the mulah was rolling in and we would have days we would call "National Car Buying Days", we'd go out to a local club "BarFly" in New Westminster by our office.

After awhile we got VIP treatment, as we were pulling in Benz SL600's, Vipers, and Vettes. We got chummy with the doormen, and one day, the Head guy asked us, "Are you guys farmers?"

We all stared each other, not knowing what to say, "Farmers? No man, we do Internet Porn, what the fuck, farmers make that much money?"

He then went on to explain that what he meant farmers were Marujuana Growers. Back then we had no idea that the number one cash crop of British Columbia was weed and that those guys would be rolling in the cash after a successful grow op.

We explained that, no we weren't farmers and do porn. Which lead to the usual, I know this person who wants to do it, and do you have passwords. :)

God, someone posted this story like 5 or 6 years ago, I think it was Mark Tiarra of Mob Bucks, about being at a bar, and this girl finding out they did Porn.

The girl went on to say she did too, when asked what was her site, she said, "Kara's Playground" and that she was Kara.

If I remember right, they played along and then started asking her about how old the site was, how RB was, etc, etc...

The fun you can have with people. :)

great stories guys

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh i love it :thumbsup

lmao... great thread!

i have short story too that involves myself and uproared (from woowootcash.com)...

basically when i first started out i had all these great ideas in making a solo site with myself and uproared (heard all these wonderful stories in how people have made it big by finding the 'one' in the nn world.. spunky with katesplayground is a great example)...anyways, the search was on for a girl so we decided to go for a girl that was within our friendship group which we thought would work! haha.. i tell you what we must have been on smack because the implications this brought to the table were beyond the imagination... (but you can see how we went there- easy to ask coz she is a slut and easy to manage as we already know her /trust her)

Problems! - First, the girl was a long time schoolfriend in which i used to be best friends with and uproared was acquainted with ( she was mates with uproared?s girlfriend too). The girl is also connected to one of our best mates as he went out with her for a period of 5 years or so? and then to add to all this no one really knows what we actually do on the ?internet? porn business..

Anyways cutting a long story short, someone from Melbourne finds the site of her and all traces lead to us! BANG! all our mates are bewildered and fucking peeved, claiming we have pimped out our friend! Ever tried explaining to people that aren?t in the biz that nn models aren?t pornstars and don?t do anything hardcore!? For months afterwards we were seen as murders and we had fully pimped this girl out into some sort of prostitute! Lmao? we were like ?omg relax, its like her being on FHM!? rofl? shit turned a little more sour when our girlfriends found out about these ?photo shoots? and ?website? but that?s another story? haha..

Jeez all we were trying to do was strive for our big breaks!

p.s we no longer speak to the nn model anymore..

pps.. don?t pimp out a ?girl? friend? hell we sound really mean but it was only NN and she wasn?t really our ?friend?!

very good idea Jack.....im in my home town for the wekend, im gonna test it out on some people i knew that dont know.....or just some town folk.....anyway, taking the lil lady to work and hittin the town.....later peeps

Deej, signing out.....


_Penis

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lol!
Pink hair tends to attract buyers, as well. :)


Great stories, Jack!

you guys do porn???? WTF!? I thought you were investment bankers....weird. Can I get a password! :upsidedow

I don't tell anyone anymore about working in porn.

Nowadays, I tell them I either run membership subscription sites, or do affiliate management online.

Saves the hassle, and gets me those dumb looks.

Funny stories ...

3 weeks ago I got this high school friend who just got her titties re-done asking me what were the involvement/the pay and everything arround it ... we'll talk about it more this week. She's a smart girl and I don't want her messed up in something that will create problems for her ;) But anyways...

I don't know how the word really got out but everyone and their mom arround here know what I fuckign do .

There's about 10 friends of mine that know what I do.