Have You ever been discriminated because of Your business?
 

i was dating a girl, in the beginning the girl seemed decent, i mean we were good, we got on well, she said that she is loving me.

later i told her that i m in adult business, she said it's not ok for her, but later accepted.

after a while later i mean today, she told me that this will be problem, what to tell her family bla bla bla.

i was explaining her that no way her family can understand, i m just building web sites nothing more...

Worse than that, she claimd it's illegal, they are jailing pornographers what so ever, again i didn't give up and let her know about it's legal status in many countries which are mostly developped etc etc, i also showed a wikipedia link regarding that.

again she said, she doesn't like it because some girls are fulled of being famous, i've said, these are done by models who are obligated to do legal paper work etc and offcourse bad apples could give bad examples in any profession.

i think we had afew problems too, but anyhow, well it seems we broke up, however i m not sad but mad, mad because of her stupidity, i m mad because some people not worried about putting prejudices based on their own ignorance :MAD

So have You ever came across a simillar matter?

Where are you from?

As my location says me from Tr

yep :) get another

turkey?

yes all the time. I find people go through 'stages'.. one point itll be 'cool' and they'll mention gangbangs.. and then, sometimes quickly, it'll be 'what are you gonna do when you grow up' type thing

figure out a good system let us know lol now i don't even mention it other than 'webmaster' and 'google adwords'

yeah, and not just once

but i own a production company, thats worse than being "just" a porn webmaster

Yes, my first business bank shut down my account when we started doing serious revenue each month.. first they thought we were laundering money for terrorists (this was just after 9/11) so we got letters faxed from reality kings and another sponsor, then they shut us down because they don't like porn :( Fortunately we had no trouble finding other banks who like money. Nobody else in business has cared about the porn (accountants / lawyers etc.) and I don't tell a lot of people in my personal life.

Yes, you are officially a PORNOGRAPHER. :)

More important than that, she scammed your for Christmas presents, get whatever you gave her back...

yes, happened to me once.

some people just dont understand business is business. and its legal.

you better be careful, if its not allowed in your country., i cant recall where but i read somewhere,
in some muslim country they executed webmaster for working in adult ...

debatable :winkwink:

come to Vegas in January and i'll tell you my view on all this in person over a beer or two :)

People have problems with all kinds of things. We all have some kind of colorful "damage" to us and like some things and reject others. Frankly I'm surprised how positive and interested people are about porn. More now than ever.

Don't let it bother you and better you know now than later.

we are the first country with muslim poppulation who legally produced porn although Our current gov is kind of interesting type that likes using poppulism as a tool, however death penalty is long gone here since 1985 though we abolished it officially in 2004 but i understand what You mean.

yeah muslims will turn away from porn. look at their view on marriage its insane and female trading. :2 cents: :disgust

I had bank issues once as well. This was with Washington Mutual. I had been banking with them for a little more than a year when one day I get a letter in the mail telling me that they have good information that a check I deposited might not be good and will bounce. I assumed they really knew what they were talking about. It turns out the check is from a company I had been getting checks from for a long time so I was pretty confident they were not going to bounce the check. When I went in and asked why they thought the check was no good the manager pulled me aside and told me that since it was from an "adult" company the odds were it was no good because those companies are notorious for bouncing checks. I told him that in the three years I had been doing this I had never had a check bounce and most of the money I deposit there is from adult and it has never bounced he just shrugged his shoulders.

After that I got the cold shoulder a few times going in there and when I wanted to open a separate business checking account I was told I would have to wait and jump through a bunch of different hoops to make it happen. It was pretty clear they didn't want my money so I closed my accounts and went elsewhere.

The funny thing was when I closed my accounts suddenly they seemed like they cared about me and didn't want me to go. In the end, as we all found out during the housing crash, Washington Mutual turned out to be a scumbag bank so leaving them was a good thing.

No, because to people I ain't close with, I'm just a web developer with a web development company that I can show them.

I've lost a few people who I thought were friends. Some real wild asses too, but when it came to the sex industry it crossed the line. Their loss.

I get very confused by this biased that society places on adult work. Look at the girl from the pawn stars reality show, fired for once getting naked on a softcore porn website. Does her getting naked in public now somehow make her less qualified to be a pawn dealer on a reality show? Apparently, at least according to the shows producers.

Same thing with banks - for many years webmasters have had problems trying to find banks and mail delivery services that wouldn't tread them like shit because of their chosen industry. It's stupid.

We all get naked. We all have sex. If we didn't there wouldn't be any population left at all. So why do we act like it's such a big freakin' deal? WHO CARES IF SUZY SLUT TAKES 17 COCKS AT ONCE! That's her thing. Is she really any different than the other soccer mom whores? At least Suzy Slut gets paid for it.

Just dont tell them you work in porn...tell them you work with the mentally retarded...its just as true....
an AVN award for best piracy site (free website tubes nominated) are yall serious?

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh I just spit out a mouthful of overpriced coffee on that one!:thumbsup

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that's fine man just find another who can understand what your doing...

It sounds like she's really set in her beliefs, and that her family thinks the same way. If you love her try your best to convince her that what you do is "real" business just like any other, and that there's a community of people who are cool and fun behind the scenes. Take her to Xbiz or Internext!

If you can't convince her, say goodbye and move on.

I'm lucky in that my family has no problem at all with what I do (not even my 900 year old Mother). A few of my inlaws are not thrilled, including a religious person who truly hates me, but I don't care.

Good luck!

my ex (she is ex from yesterday) found a wierd "comfort" in the fact I'm a pornographer
as in - she is chasing her career which sucks to start with, and her progress in years is almost none, but all my success was obsolete coz I do such a dirty thing for a living

she sure as fuck loved gifts and nice trips that MY porn money bought her

ah well, good ride, even better riddance :)

when asked, just say you're a drug dealer. cuts though a lot of bs

I'm very upfront about my business, if you have a problem with it, it is your problem.

Yes, I have been discriminated against; but, I have found many secret admirers as well.

Turkey, where:
1) All sorts of adult content is illegal.
2) The majority of citizens are Muslims (some even radical ones).

just go to xhamster You will be surprised by the amount of Turkish Amateur/Self shot content there, there are companies in abroad which are owned by Turkish people as well, such as trimax in Germany.

additionally You can legally sell sex products at legal sex shops in Turkey, it's just our current government is kind of nagger about that, take Your facts straight before You claimed anything.

having radicals is an other bullshit, i can't say that we didn't have these kinda bigotic assholes, however these are not the people that You see every day on streets.

Come to my city, get lost in alcohol with youngsters together while sitting beside the se coast in the evening, Nobody will ask You .

There's a major reason why they are not located in TR. Think about it.

If the bitch gets pissed your ass belongs to bubba. You might wish they didn't remove the death penalty at this point :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_Turkey

BTW, even youtube doesn't work in Turkey.

I've been to Turkey about 5 or 6 times.

They most likely moved long before...

That ban was regarding to a video that insulted to founding father Ataturk, but later lifted...

Ive worked in adult for a long time, in one form or another. If I liked someone I was vague about what I did until I saw, if it was worth pursuing. I wasnt going to screw up a possible get laid opportunity lol.

Nothing like that actually, yet i didn't buy anything for her, though the relationship was newly branded :p and gifts wouldn't be my concern actually...

Many porn webmasters have been executed in Birmingham, UK

several times in fact I keep my locations secret so I am forced out of the area...

A longtime buddy married a chick who we suspect told him to keep his distance from us after she learned we owned an adult production company.

We've never hidden what we do from anyone - friends, family. We're always open about it - if they have a problem with it...that's their problem. If they feel the need to judge or discriminate against us based on their (mis)conception of it...there's little I can do to change that.

We see it as an honest, legal livelihood. We've always been proud of what we've accomplished over the years. And we've had a blast doing it along the way.

some girls tried to kick my balls (dangerous move for them)

I thought you were a meter maid?

Never. 2c