Do you work in any part of the "porn industry"?

[benburch]

I include here print, video, and the service industries that they use like typography, printing, video duplication, etc, and any part of the retail distribution chain.

[Deja Q]

1. Does being a consumer count?

:evilgrin:

:rofl:

[benburch]

4. Nope!

But being a clerk at a 7-11 that sells "Club" or similar magazines does. (If you haven't seen a retail "men's magazine" in the last decade, they have become quite hardcore.)

[obreaslan]

28. That's considered Procurement and Q& A I believe.....

:smoke:

[otohara]

2. Back In The 80's

the mega record chain I was working for carried porn. In Boogie Nights when they are in the warehouse shrink wrapping porn video's, brings back memories.

[mhr]

3. No - But It Might Improve One's Sex Life

eom

[Justice Is Comin]

5. I work in the lower part.

:evilgrin:

[blogslut]

6. Are we making a list?

I work for the Internet porn industry. I write articles and lessons for adult webmasters. I cover industry trends and technologies. I also cover legislation and assaults to freedom of speech.

[RagingInMiami]

11. Well that's one way to get me to click on your blog

[MelissaB]

14. Me, too.

:rofl:

[blogslut]

15. I don't care if you click or not

My blog is a separate entity from the site I work for. I would NEVER post a link to the site I work for. Believe it or not, I'm just a gal that thinks America is a great country and I hate that it's being destroyed by the fascists neocons.

[RagingInMiami]

17. Hey, I'm not dissing what you do

But I'm enjoying some of those links.

[blogslut]

19. sorry

just got myself in defend mode. It's all good.

[MelissaB]

20. Me, either.

I actually clicked the link in another thread. :hi: I'm just a curious person.

[blogslut]

22. thank you too

:)

[Book Lover]

7. Former Art Director for a newsprint weekly

I learned ten thousand things, some of them even about putting a weekly to bed.

[frazzledmom]

8. Not myself but I know a few jib operators

that shoot porno. They say it's much better work these days. Many more legitimate companies.

-Walldude posting on the wife's puter....

[PatriotGames]

9. It would have been fun to intern for a porn company. LOL

[BlueIris]

27. Careful. I almost did something like that and found out...

I wasn't, er, suited for it. In the sense that I didn't know as much about sexuality as I thought. I'd never assumed I was any kind of expert, but I thought that what I didn't know I could fake, especially for the position I was trying to get as an intern (editor for a magazine that published lesbian erotic fiction and poetry). The problem, as the staff saw it--and when they pointed it out I had to agree that my lack of perspective was a liability--was that my life as a boring straight woman simply hadn't given me enough insight into the sexual experiences being depicted in the pieces the magazine edited to know what the best way to edit a given story or poem would be. And they said it was mostly my admittedly limited approach to sex that made them not want to hire me--not my orientation. Which was kind of insulting to me at the time ("I'm...limited?") So, it might sound like a good idea now, but in the end, you might not like the place it takes you.

It occurs to me that you might have been totally kidding. In case you weren't, or others are considering similar career paths, I'm posting mine as a cautionary tale.

[Endangered Specie]

10. No, I simply consume it.

and lets face it, most guys who tell you they dont look at porn probably watch more than the rest of us, and are just too insecure to admit it.

[MelissaB]

12. No, but know somebody who ran a male escort service and still

runs several websites.

[MelissaB]

13. Hi Agent Mike and all spies!

:hi:

[lvx35]

16. Agent Mike is very interested in this

very, very, very interested:
http://www.skeptictank.org/gen1/gen00522.htm
;)

[MelissaB]

18. Don't they have a team looking into the industry now?

These assholes ought to be investigating many other things.

[lvx35]

23. I'm sure they do, but only the "lucky" agents get to be involved. ;)

Seriously though, I'm not sure what the FBI's level of involvement in legal porno is after 9/11. There are teams looking into human trafficking and organised crime involvement, you can bet on that, but I sincerely hope that Hoover type stuff isn't going on, or you're right, that would be a huge waste of resources.

[benburch]

25. This is one of the Justice Departments key initiatives!

Which shows how fucked up their priorities are.

[lvx35]

42. Still? That's crazy! nt

[lildreamer316]

21. Voting for hubby---you know why.

:evilgrin:

[Redstone]

24. No.

Redstone

[Swamp Rat]

26. No, but I think it should be legalised and regulated to protect the worker

Otherwise, for example, creeps like Neil Bush will continue to rape young girls and get away with it.

[benburch]

29. Be careful!

In Nevada, regulation has been used as a tool to enforce "company town" type abuses on sexworkers.

[Swamp Rat]

30. I have no experience nor expertise in this area.

I am just making a suggestion based on my desire to see sexworkers protected, like any other working American. :)

[benburch]

34. I think the solution to that is decriminalization.

Putting it on an even footing with all other labor, rather than in its own highly regulated category.

[Swamp Rat]

36. I'll kick to that. n/t

:kick:

[...of J.Temperance]

39. You have NO expertise in THIS area?

Hey Mr. Swamp Rat...I saw what you did...and darlin' you DO have expertise in THIS area ;)

Saying that you don't have expertise in this area...you better go and jump in the nearest tub of water because your pants are on FIRE!!

:bounce:

[Swamp Rat]

40. You been to da Mardi Gras, cher?

Laissez le bon temps roule!

[...of J.Temperance]

48. Of course I have honey ;)

:bounce:

[KoKo]

31. NO! and I don't promote it in my family, or selling of Male/Female Bodies

for Corporate Interests. No matter how bad the Porn Trade (always linked to Mafia/Organized Crime is in my mind...I do understand that some "elements of Right Wing Repugs and DINO Dems" need to "experience this" on their own.. They might love the Gambling and the Porn Floor Shows that accompany it...like "Mr. Moral Values, Bennett...but in the end the Porn Trade whether for Homo's or Hetero's DEMEANS US ALL....and it should be at the bottom of the Aquarium in the Political Food Pyramid...rather than AT THE TOP.

I know that TONS OF DU'ers will disagree with me...but I have to say what I believe...I have to..:shrug:

[Taxloss]

32. No, but ...

...when I was unemployed about six or seven years ago, one of the many jobs I applied for was the position of sub-editor on a big-selling Brit porn weekly. I got an interview, did it and they said I wasn't right for it. I can't say I was sorry, I didn't want to do it, but I did need a job.

[porphyrian]

33. No, but I hear there's good money in it. - n/t

[jazzjunkysue]

35. No, I've never held a job with this administration.

[liberalnurse]

37. No, but my application is pending......

Just kidding.........O8)

[...of J.Temperance]

38. I appeared in a porn film a few years ago

Seriously...but it was an "art" film. Ahem.

NO FURTHER COMMENT. THIS IS MAH CONFESSION TO Y'ALL ;)

[...of J.Temperance]

46. You know...I thought SOMEONE might have responded "Really?"

Or shown some form of interest in my answer...afterall it's pretty interesting is it not?

What am I chopped liver?

[Taxloss]

49. Really?

If you no say "nah", I will not be amused.

[...of J.Temperance]

51. Really?

Yes I was.

[LSK]

50. post this in the lounge and you will get a brazilian responses n/t

[...of J.Temperance]

52. I was thinking of

Doing a poll:

"Am I the only person at DU to have ever appeared in a porn film?"

Of course the poll would have to be in the Lounge, because it would be moved there anyhow.

[emmajane67]

41. As part of my old job I had to choose films for the Adult Channel

and schedule them.
It was a pay-per-view service as part of a cable TV service I was in charge of.
Apparently I was very good at this job as I doubled the buy rates within six months, which cracked me up as I never watched the films I scheduled.

[slampoet]

43. Idon't work in the porn industry .....oddly i work in the hip-hop industry

But I have had 4-5 friends or lovers that have been sex/porn workers.

The best jobs have been writing. These are a lot of aspiring writers that write porn-per-page.

Also i had a friend who wrote the descriptions of photos that appear in magazines

[kcwayne]

44. I used to work in the defense industry. Does that count?

[Nimrod2005]

45. I voted OTHER, because I wish I had worked in the industry!!!

[CornField]

47. I survived during college by writing smut for men's entertainment mags

Not something you really want on your professional resume, but it paid the bills.

[Samurai_Writer]

53. I'm a 'webgirl'

I'm on pay sites that specialize in BBW models. I also do print and runway modeling, but that isn't porn. In fact, the sites I am on are very soft-core, and I consider it more 'erotic' photography than pornography.