Adult Internet & Responsibilities To The Public
 

Growing up, working in various industries I learned one term..and that was "corporate citizenship."

As a good "corporate citizen" working in the adult field waht do you feel are your responsibilities to the general public?

I know it's a hard term to apply to our industry because of it's taboo nature, but I think if people and companies thought a bit more about how their behaviours could change how some of society sees us they might work on increasing positive exposure.

So what do you think our responsibilities are towards issues like censorship, minors and harmful materials, age verification, spam, etc. ?

The issues if we do not tackle them as real businessmen and women may eventually be handled for us, and in a manner that does not fit our best interest.

a very valid question with a lack of response here on GFY.

ok, so it does deserve some response, even though i'm busy today.

1. put out a good product, give value to the member.
2. don't foist your shit on people who don't want it---no unsolicited email, list your sites with ICRA, and tell people how they can exclude your sites from their browser if they don't want it.
3. don't cater to, or promote exploitative or degrading shit---erotica uplifts the human spirit, keep it on that level---do not produce stuff that doesn't make the world a better place.
4. comply with the fucking law, believe it or not, it's reasonable.
5. be a business person, otherwise you will be history.

LOL I guess it was kind of crazy to expect anything different.

Eroswebmaster, you've made an excellent, poignant and true statement:

The issues if we do not tackle them as real businessmen and women may eventually be handled for us, and in a manner that does not fit our best interest.

Other industries develop Codes of Conduct to decide an ethical uniform business practice. While a 'code of conduct' might be far-fetched for the adult Industry, a need for some kind of uniformity is obvious.

Two things I'd like to see become uniform standards:

1) I'd like to see all affiliate programs in the US, or doing business in the US, adopt ASACP's suggested best practices for adult sites. It's a good idea to lean on this organization... take advantage of it's good name, longevity, industry wide acceptance and support.. with actual practice, not just words. In doing so, you're advertising a sense of responsibility to the Internet at large and supporting one of the most impressive and forward thinking women I've had the pleasure of meeting, Joan Irvine. Things like entry pages, 2257 info... they're what we have to work with and we should...

2) I'd like to see the initiation of a web-wide community standard for 'obscenity', instead of allowing local communities that may be states apart decide obscenity for me...optimally, this would handled by some organization like w3... webmasters already generally agree that bestiality, sites with graohic violence (rape sites) and cp are NOT cool....

Eros... what would you like to see made 'uniform' for webmasters, Industry wide?

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