Parents in Adult - Seminar Follow Up
 

First, I would like to thank everyone who attended the Parents in Adult Seminar at Internext. I would also like to thank AVN for the forum.

I believe Darklady adequately summarized the seminar when she wrote ?... the Potoski?s, along with fellow PIA members Dr. John Pappas, Blake Tsai, Brad Bannon, Lori Z and Jason Tucker, addressed a small but keenly interested crowd during the first day of Internext Seminars. The panel discussed their personal and professional experiences dealing with DSS, family members, society at large ? and their own internal issues or guilt or shame?. More here.

This one paragraph, coupled with bits and pieces from her article highlighted both our strengths and needs:
? The need for a resource like Parents in Adult is timely and relevant.
? I have my work cut out for me ensuring that people both know about and can easily utilize the resources found within the PIA website.
? There is a general lack of legal information available specifically to parents working in our industry.
? The psychologists are going to play a key role in the evolution of PIA.
? In order for PIA to truly help it is going to require the active participation of both our staff and parents in every facet of our industry.

The first major update to the Parents in Adult website will take place on January 25, 2006 and specifically address the questions raised at the seminar as well as updating our sponsors. We will be updating the site every two weeks and look forward to your involvement as well as learning from you how PIA can be of service.

why does one have to join just to see who the sponsers are?

Hey Sleazy! Another insomniac :thumbsup

No one has to join..its free..but we do ask people to register for a number of reasons:

1) The banks, when deciding weather or not they were going to provide us a merchant account had a huge problem with the sponsors having clickable links due to the images / subject matter etc. We reached a compromise with them..thus registration.

2) The attorneys initially wanted us to have a warning page...we felt that defeated one of the primary purposes of PIA....not to hide. again the compromise...registration.

3) PIA deals with a subject many people are hesitant to reveal they are a parent and they work in the adult industry. We have built in as many reasonable safeguards as we can to allow a lurker to see what PIA is about but not allow them "in" without us having a look at who they are. PIA was never meant to be a high volume moneymaker...shit..it costs us money LOL!

Brandi and I Just hope it helps. You know what happened to us...wouldn't wish that on anyone.