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Originally Posted by ITraffic
the deep seated hatred and shame about sex and sexuality - and by extension adult entertainment - oozes rom all your posts.
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Hatred and shame? Look deeper into what I wrote man. If I hated porn and felt shameful about it I wouldn't fucking DO it. LOL
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Originally Posted by Robbie
@pornnerd
As I said in my post...
Many people were young and this was the first thing they went in to in business. WHY would they have been "successful" in something else?
Would you ask the world's richest man Bill Gates WHY he wasn't successful in something else first?
Or for that matter...how many people become wildly successful in any field and suddenly decide to quit and do something else?
That's just a dumb comparison.
If I get successful in a business, I'm not going to suddenly stop it and go into adult.
And if I get successful in adult, and the success isn't waning...I'm not going to suddenly leave and go into another industry (unless it's just something I wanted to do for personal reasons).
"People who sell or work in Adult tend to do so because:
1. They see opportunity
2. They're horny kinky fucks
3. They don't want a 'real job'
4. All of the above"
Your 4 reasons are excellent ones for a person to be their own boss in ANY industry.
Look at the 4 things you wrote:
1. It takes VISION for a person to actually "see opportunity" and know how to be successful at it. Thousands try every day to seize opportunity in every kind of business. Only a handful will actually be able to do it.
2. Every human being on the face of the Earth is a sexual person and gets horny and has their own private fetishes. Doesn't apply to why a person enters a business (though you DO have to be free of sexual hangups and prudishness/religious nutcase type feelings)
3.Only people with drive and ambition go out and start their own business (or as you call it "don't want a real job"). That is a definite positive thing.
4. All of the above? Exactly.
As for piracy? That is it's own industry. It's not the porn industry.
It's a bunch of guys who don't give a shit about the porn industry. They are out to steal content, and sell the shit traffic generated by the content they don't own.
And yes, it's "smart". They saw that the govt. and the courts WANT the porn industry to die...and it leaves the door open for them to just blatantly steal and get away with it.
I'd like to put my foot in their asses. But I can't deny how clever it is.
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I agree entrepenuerial spirit cuts across any Industry. Entrepeneurial spirit is what I LIKE about the Adult biz (and affiliates or anyone who runs their own biz). But you said people in Adult could be successful doing anything else yet the examples of such people are few and far between.
(And, to be clear, I am NOT speaking of the Shaps of the world, who sold out and made millions then learned how to invest those millions in other fields like real estate or the stock market AFTER they left Adult; many successful people got their START in Adult.)
Let's bring things back to today, NOW, 2014: we see a landscape where all we will have left are two camps:
1. Big corporations
2. Small business operaters
Anyone else "in the middle" will be (and are now being) squeezed out. It's the way of any Industry really. So what I'm saying is either you will work for one of those big corporations OR you will be on your own, more or less, and if you ARE "alone" then be happy you aren't selling shoes for a living at Foot Locker.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
I've NEVER met a "perverted" "sex-crazed" cliched "pornographer" like you are insinuating.
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Man people really see what they want to see, don't they? I never used the words 'perverted' or 'sex-crazed". LOL I said HORNY and KINKY - which does describe many people, which you acknowledged. And I am NOT saying people in porn are not 'regular people' who go to Disneyland and help their families etc. Jesus H Christmas!
I am saying if you work in PORN it is not the same as if you work at IBM or General Electric. Maybe it's you (along with many others in this thread) who have the myopic head-up-their-ass view of life, not me. LOL