How Did you Start in Porn? Tell us your tale...
 

For me it was a hobby taking promo photos for Strippers in Vancouver. They would only show up half the time. Then i got the idea to pay them, get a release and give them there promo. They all started showing up.

It was 1995, - So, i put up a few naughty pix and people started wiring money from all of the world to buy original content. So easy.

Now, i actually have to listen very carefully to my clients, create exactly what they need, on budget, on time and do it with style.

There is still good money in porn, its just a much matured biz.

You actually need to plan and execute perfectly to make money.

Its a whole other world.

I read in some magazine about the Free6.com guy making a lot of money.
I waited until I was 18 and launched my first site with a homemade TGP-script made in ASP. This was about 10 years ago.

I started with a local swingers magazine and a homepage for dating on AOL years ago.

Crazy Ernie (my stand up comedian side) sez: "I started by playing stink-finger with my girlfriend in the movies in the 40's." :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I answered an ad for an Online Marketing Manager for Playboy UK.

My friends took me to the business 7 years ago, as a content manager.
OMG, how much I learned during those 7 years :)

In 1977 I had a big debt to pay off. a friend suggested I shoot nude pictures of my then wife and sell them mail order. Did the pics, put in an ad, opened a PO Box and in weeks was making 100s of UK pounds. Found more girls, put in more ads and it snowballed.

It was so fucking easy then. :thumbsup :thumbsup

Max that was the world I lived in from 1988 onwards. Magazines or mail oder customers always have to be listened to. Otherwise they buy from someone who will.

I was 21 and needed a part time job to supplement my design business, so I answered an ad looking for chat people behind the scenes at a live sex studio in Chatsworth. There was an intercom system in the rooms, and we operated the chat and cameras and kept the feeds up, etc. It was so much fun.

I remember on break it was the first time I had conversations with people just standing around naked. Guys/girls. But so casually. LOL... It was nothing but fun and made some exciting friends (haha).

I like ChokerTraffic's "I ain't in porn" approach ...

I am a make up artist. Was doing catalogue stuff but that work was not regular. An amateur studio in the UK wanted someone to make up girls and guys for a few hours each day. From there I met performers daily who recommended me to other companies.

Net.Pond and Beta-Brigade

I clicked on a link that said "Webmasters $$$" and believed the crap about getting rich! :D

Around 1995, my uncle had a ISP in montreal and I was working there and a guy came to have his own porn site, he gave the first and middle payment site was mostly done and then he just disapear....! So after couple of week wait I decided to take over the project and bingo! we started producing live show on our own cam site then discovered Ifriend back in days ($$$$) so basicly I run a studio since that.

don't remmember but I am sure it was a bad day and very bad idea :pimp

Next month it will be 10 years ago thehun asked me to be his reviewer... that's all :)

Best move I ever made, you got in too late.

ran out of baking soda. had to re-up

i was 7 and in first grade - some other kid brought a magazine he stole from his brother. it all went down from there ;)

Saw a link at the bottom of a porn site saying make $$$. The rest is history!

I heard the internet was for porn back in 96 and bought a computer and started surfing with my blazing fast 14.4 modem, upgraded to a 56k and discovered if I wanted to see anything good I need to join. I did not have a credit card so got into cracking. met a guy who owned some sites, I was an affiliate of his for awhile, partnered up with him on apollos temple and grew from there

Craigslist, honestly. I had my last exam in university and I started job hunting the next day. I was looking for anything in PR and marketing, and there just happened to the perfect job in porn. I've been a progressive porn enthusiast throughout my life, so this just fit perfectly!

I was looking for free hosting and found revsharehosting and that is how i learned about webmaster side.

LOL was about the same age when i saw my first naughty images too

I remember we used to play with our dicks in the kindergarten already :1orglaugh

Got hired by my friends at virtuagirl.com

wow....well the short and dirty version...started running hotline then free/AVS sites while at University in Windsor, roomates and I started small program..back in 98', with niche membership sites, growth was quick, that all evolved, and is still around in a couple of forms...I'm sure they could add more

In 1993 I got a job with an audiotext company in LA, (900 and 976 #s). Then they leased a content delivery system called "Virtual Dreams". People were mailing in checks and money orders, (and even cash) to view the content. We got a merchant account through First Bank of Beverly Hills, (who had no idea what this "internet" thing was), and they gave us a point-of-sale credit card machine. People would use the BBS on our site to send us their CC info, we would input it into the machine, get an approval, and then BBS back a password for them.

I got out of the business in 1996 and ran some call centers for 3 years.

Then moved to Miami in 1999, and became the face of one of the big 3rd party processors at the time. When they went down in 2003 I lost a ton of money. Rebuilt my own merchant account brokerage, then partnered in several alternative payment solutions, and still doing credit card and alternative billing to this day.

Of course probably 60% of my business is now outside of adult, and I also have a bank consulting firm that helps banks get into e-commerce acquiring, but the adult biz is still super fun!



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I met a girl in a strip club, started dating her, found out she was a pornstar....lol. she enjoyed the lifestyle, so we hit the road as she shot solo vids and pics for people, at alot of shoots I would just getted pulled into the scenes, we did this for a long time, at a convention in Florida "fetish con" we talked to Neil at the clips4sale booth and decided to make our own c4s site. and everything progressed from there.

In 1995 my friend and I - with no experience what so ever - build me my first computer. A year later or so, I ventured on online and found a picture of two college cheerleaders I liked and used as wallpaper. I started searching for more similar pictures of these cheerleaders, and came across a website by Steve Lightspeed. I emailed him, and much to my surprise he emailed right back. (Keep in mind this was back when web pages were few and far between and even email was new.) We emailed back and forth, I told him I wished I could make webpages, and he told me what I needed. Twenty-four hours later I had a webpage on my computer he could see, and a little bit after that I opened up a daily bikini website on Geocities.

Eventually Steve let me use his hosting for a few of my websites, and we worked on a few websites together. Eventually he shot and opened up Lightspeed University, and I opened up a solo girl site. In 1999 - when I graduated college - he hired me full time to work for his new porn company.

The rest is history.

This is great reading, thanks for sharing

Allot of people started in the mid 90s

AOL spam telling me I could make millions selling porn.

I was on the corporate side, working on high positions in big companies. Really big money, but I was working Monday to Sunday 14 to 20 hours (really!), smoking 2 to 3 packs of cigs, drinking liters of coffee, eating pills... well, you get the picture. I was pretty excited with the "new big thing" that was Internet so after some health complications I resigned from work and started an Internet company in the Real Estate niche. I failed miserably because Internet wasn't really developed in my country, but I noticed the surging wave of adult Internet. Took a look and started with a free hosted page at Nettaxi and to my surprise, I started getting some money with close to 0 effort. The rest is history...

I was a lonely teen girl... I thought I could make it big in Hollywood... I met this guy and he got me high and he and his buddies gangbanged me... now I am a sex slave in Romania.

Started in 1998 by putting up a basic site to document our real life swinging lifestyle - the rest is history!

I moved to LA in 99' to pursue Arts & Entertainment Photography. I wanted to shoot celebs. Never panned out....

In 2000, I answered an online ad for a photo retoucher - it was David Lace. I went to work for him and after a few months there I started doing some shooting. A few months later I was managing his studio, training other retouchers and shooting full time. Did that for a year then went to work for J. Stephen Hicks, who was a big-time Penthouse shooter at the time (2001), but also shot for other mags. He brought me on as a retoucher, color corrector & assistant. I spent a year there and then left because I wanted to get back behind the camera. I felt at that time that I had enough knowledge & experience to get something going. That's basically how I got started.

I never imagined myself shooting hot nudie girls but it's been an amazing experience. My time working for Hicks was one of the highlights of my life. Becoming friends with Arny Freytag (Playboy Photographer) as well as Ken Marcus, both idols of mine, has been a dream come true.

Funny how life turns out sometimes....

i bumped onto yessignals.com and thought if that could make money, i could too.

Somebody on Standard Internet (12clicks?) forums shared traffic stats from an adult site they built, from that moment I begun my quest to make it in adult.. That was 2001-2 or so :)

Thanks 12clicks, if that was you behind SI? I've had a great run, blind-links to clickheretofind(?) and co were a big part of my income in the early days.

It's hilarious I find myself here 10 years later, disagreeing with your posts on the WallSt protesters :1orglaugh

I was sufing around some porn site and ended up on a sexshare(the old freehost) forum and started reading about the money some were making on doing galleries and freesites. I had done some simpler websites in school and at home (I was 16 at the time) So I read up on that forum(respect to Wolfshade) and did some galleries, submitted to thehun and a few more places. A week after I had made over $300 in sales so I saw the potential and started learning more. Ended up at old n-pond and their different boards. Learned a lot from Voltar, BillPMB, Anthony, Nickatilynx and a few more. This was early 1999.