Adult webmaster, lurker, and want to say hello.
Peaches your post really hit home for me.
I wonder if we are related, 'cause it sounds like we have the same relatives!
now mind you -- these are the same people who if they knew that we (my partner and i) did adult sites for a living would treat us like dirt. These are people that had their wealth and "bootstraps" as it were handed to them on a silver platter to give them a leg up in life. But when it came time to do the same for their children and needy family members, it was "Fuck You."
My partner and I literally bootstrapped ourselves online from dirt poor to being able to do nothing more than afford some domains and hosting. No one "invested" in our business or helped us out in any way.
Not one person in our respective families ever had to "bootstrap." Although it was demanded of us by our own families, some which are millionaires several times over and some that live very comfortably, but are not millionaires. NONE EVER HAD TO DO IT TOTALLY ON THEIR OWN WITH NO HELP WHATSOEVER. We did.
My partner and I are not rich, but by golly we are not going to give up hope.
It's going to happen for us, and all I have to say is that if the tables ever turn I really hope that none of these people ever have the nerve to come to us for anything. Really. My heart is so cold now I could freeze the north pole. Lousy hypocrites will get nothing.
