You're in adult because ......

**123Jason** · 02-04-2004, 09:39 AM

Originally posted by POV Porn guy
I think I was the only male talent to get into the porn biz just for the money. I just wanted to pay off my debts & go back to acting & modeling but it was adicting cause it was so easy. Then I got real interested in marketing & production, so I picked up a camera & started shooting sex. Mine was free so I started there. I actually had a bunch of people come to me back in 97-99 to do an amateur POV web site but I didn't trust them cuz they only wanted to give me 25% of the profit. Funny how things work out.

You're not the only one. Started with a live feed provider as a model thinking I'd make some quick cash, pay off some debt and work my way through my last year of college. Loved the people and the industry and started working in everything from model management to marketing etc...

Funny how we end up somewhere not even on the same map as where we started out.

**BradShaw** · 02-04-2004, 09:40 AM

Like taking candy from a baby.

**Basic_man** · 02-04-2004, 09:41 AM

Cause I don't want to work while I'm in school :D

And god damn I love this business

**radical** · 02-04-2004, 09:44 AM

because because bacause!! good question!!

**jds** · 02-04-2004, 09:44 AM

Because it's the only market where you know every man can be a consumer

**JimW** · 02-04-2004, 09:46 AM

cause I was friends with Brad Shaw..

**maxjohan** · 02-04-2004, 10:00 AM

- insert life story here -

**Digipimp** · 02-04-2004, 11:22 AM

So was this anyone's first choice of biz? And if you were making more mainstream would you even bother to stay in adult?

**Peter Romero** · 02-04-2004, 11:47 AM

Originally posted by Digipimp
So was this anyone's first choice of biz? And if you were making more mainstream would you even bother to stay in adult?

The thing is... with Mainstream, you make more money - IF you get the job. But the competition is FIERCE!!! The production level is so high that the story, actors, sets, locations, equipment have to be so good that pre-production (raising the money) is most of the work. With Adult, almost anyone with a little saavy, pocket change & perversion can at least be seen as a viable entity. Marketing that product (post production) then becomes the challenge.

**Vitasoy** · 02-04-2004, 11:52 AM

Money, and Flexibility.

**jas0n** · 02-04-2004, 01:13 PM

geek that started working for a hosting company, became a partner in the hosting company, then dove into tgp's and gallery biz to see what my customers go through. got hooked on it, it's fun stuff.

**blazin** · 02-06-2004, 01:27 AM

Still do my mainstream gig - so this is just gravy...

**rickholio** · 02-06-2004, 01:38 AM

Started out in mainstream bringing companies from startup to IPO and got progressively more and more sick with the attitude shift between startup and corporate. Was doing some work on the side for a guy who suggested I write a script that'd net me some serious coin (Some of you old-timers might recognize the name of it if I mentioned it...) and hooked me up with some amazingly cool people.

Wrote the script, got myself out of the ghetto, and it's been steadily up up up ever since.

The best part? Even when dealing with companies that push 100k-1M a month in revenues, there's still that take-it-as-it-comes friendly personal startup feel to it all. Aside from a few rare instances, everyone I've met in the industry still retains their humour and humanity.

Ironic, really, when you consider that everyone outside thinks we're all a pack of child molesting junkie crackhead satan worshipping serial rapists lying in wait around every dark corner to pounce on their womenfolk and stray livestock.

**Sifu** · 02-06-2004, 01:44 AM

i am trying to get back in it, just seem to jave trouble with the web site running deal but my work should pay off, i am a photog and people like the girls i shoot and the way i shoot, so hopefully all will turn out well.

**Sifu** · 02-06-2004, 09:20 AM

**AmeliaG** · 02-06-2004, 06:59 PM

Originally posted by Digipimp

You're one lady I've got to hook up with and meet because there's more to your work than meets the eye and most people oversimplify it. But I'm onto you and you know that and I like what you're doing.

Uh oh cat's out of the bag now

**JunkyardDog** · 02-06-2004, 07:01 PM

Was new, fun and challenging and made good money.

The industry is forever changing and you gotta keep a couple steps ahead of everyone and thats a hard task to do but worth the challenge to me.

You're in adult because ......

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