my rebuttle to the people bitching about avn mailers
 

don;t be in the adult industry if your not prepaired to recive mail from it... big deal they send stuff... only thing I can think is it's kids that live with there parents... I personally don't care send as much as you want... I am proud that I make a living from adult industry and if more people were maybe the GOV would not be shutting us down....

I kinda feel the same.

fuck off

how about those of us who are parents

I too am proud too make my living from adult, and most people around me know what I do for a living.

My child does not need to be exposed to shit like that.

btw, hows the fight with Kimbo coming along :1orglaugh

What other people think is their problem, not mine.
Just dont send anthrax or spam :)

I agree! Very Good Point.

When are you fighting Kimbo?

LOL that one will hunt him down for a good few years still. :pimp

fight fight fight fight fight

There can be major problems for people in small towns (especially in red states). You don't want your mailman to know what you're doing.

And what happen if somebody else in your street gets the package by accident ?

I'm sorry, but I live in a neighborhood with all young families, and I'm the only one of my age here (much younger). They already don't like me as it is (jealousy I guess), imagine how they would start talking.

On a serious note:

I have no problem with what I do for a living, but I don't need everyone in my community knowing what I do for a living, just as I wouldn't want them to know how much money I make, how much is in my 401k etc.

The town I live in is small, and full of mostly retired people. They have nothing better to do than gossip. The consequences could go far past them knowing. Being a firefighter I could lose my job if shit like this got out. It's just not cool to send out mailers like that. There should be some discretion and some common sense.

I understand your point, however, as I also have kids, I understand that a P.O.Box is only about $40 a year. :2 cents:

It's your job to protect your kids and your community from it. NOT AVN's.

Sure, they could be a little more discreet, but why take the risk just incase someone on their end IS asleep at the switch?

I find the stories funny :thumbsup

That doesn't work for everyone. In a small town, the P.O. is at the same fucking post office. For sicone , he mentioned in another thread that he too has a P.O. box and his kid likes to run in and get the mail. It would be fine for everyone if it was wrapped appropriately, its a simple fix.

i agree with the most part but if its your kids youre worried about, just dont let them get the mail. You know your gonna recieve stuff. Even if it came in a black envelope, kids are kids, and they could possibly open it up to see what it is. :2 cents:

just cos we have pride in what we do doesn't mean that the Government will view pornography any better than they currently do.

No matter what you do, pornography will always be controversial, too much religion worldwide and closed minds make limited judgements that it is 'dirty' etc.

All people are asking for is a little discretion, is it really that much to ask? What if you live in a bible belt area and, yes, you're proud of your porn career but you also realise the living reality of it that if people in your town were to find out then you may get ostracised, or etc?

These are legitimate concerns for some webmasters, and I think the reason so many are inflamed is cos there's a simple fix!

And personally, on this subject I think to say 'it doesn't matter what other people think' is naive.

I guess these webmasters should just do what AVN suggests and get themselves removed from the mailing list. Maybe when a bunch stop getting the mag and they notice their advertising $'s decreasing then they'll realise one of the most important things to know in business - they need to listen to their customers. :2 cents:

AVN is supposed to be there for webmasters, not the opposite. It was pretty fucking obvious what we wanted, and they didn't comply. I personally try to stay away as much as possible from them.

Dirty thanks for your rebuttal!!! :thumbsup

danzabucks will now be sending all affiliate checks to your childrens school or local church for pickup :1orglaugh

jk

Exactly ... look at faggots... how they are treated

:thumbsup

OK so AVN goes Beastiality and has BeastialityAVN, and you are ok to receive shit like that in your mail box, because they feel like sending it out, without a protective sleeve? Next thing you know your neighbors are looking at you funny, putting up privacy fences and duck taping their dogs assholes shut because you live next door.

that's "rebuttal"...not "rebuttle"
 

and don't...not don;t....no biggie though, everybody makes mistakes.

Mine was subscribing to AVN.

I am a parent to.. and you people who hide things from your kids is one thing.... this is a buisness... I am not saying show your 12 year old everything... no show him nothing.... but on another note.. this is the buisness you make money to take care of your faimly right? and I am like pappageorigio says.. get a PO box there cheap and discrete... and the mail main can give to shits what he's delivering.... if we treat this buisness like it's bad and needs to be hush hush then so is the gov and there going to shut us down... if we treat it like it's a REAL buisness then so will the gov... thats like I was out to dinner the other night and I was discussing kind of loud with my partner a few of the new sites were launching... and my girlfriend says be quiet about it.. I told her to be quiet because this buisness is buying her lunch... that was the first and only time she ever tried to say be quiet.... now if a 3 year old is near me I will keep it down but if it's all adults... what were doing is not illlegal why treat it as such

Exactly, if the kids are allowed to get the mail, they are curious animals. That's just how kids are. What's to stop little Johnny from opening the plain black wrapper anyway?

My kids NEVER check the mail unless I've already checked it before hand just incase something that they shouldn't see happens to be in there. Even though they like to check the mail, I can't just allow them to run out the door willy nilly and get it if they feel so inclined. It's MY job to make sure that they aren't exposed to anything that they shouldn't be. Noone else's.

I realize what industry I work in and I censor what my kids can possibly be exposed to.

Now, as far as being in a small town, and everyone knowing everyone else, and the mailman's prying eyes scanning what comes in my mailbox, and him perhaps going and running his mouth in the local tavern. Well, I can understand that completely and agree, atleast a plain black wrapper should be employed in AVN's mailings.

if AVN went with beastality, i probably wouldnt be subscribing anymore. I dont get any fuckin mail from the adult industry at my home address, it all comes to my office. If you dont have an office and are still highly concerned with this, get a PObox.

Com'on man, its not like your neighbors dont know what kinda stuff comes in black sleeves.

Hardly the point...

You cater to your customers PERIOD

If the majority of your customers say " please send me adult oriented material in a covered package " and you say " no" theres something wrong..

You also live in vegas, not some small conservative suburb. Big difference.

look they do protect the mag... this was an envlope that said "gayavn" I got it to everyone did... nothing wrong with it at all... fact is I did not even open it it went to file 13... and to top it all off my assistant went to the PO box to get it... so she walked out with it... and she is very consertive and still goes to church... but she also understands her job is a job and buisness is buisness.... I see nothing wrong with what they did... now on the other hand.. I am not condoning AVN or there practices but I am also not bashing them for this one.... if it was danzabucks.com that sent out a flyer in the mail long as there was no nuidity on there.. I am fine with it.... it is our job as parents to protect our kids from what they see not AVN's we are all trying to run a buisness...

I receive all kinds of stuff in black sleeves, and its not just adult stuff. For me the local P.O. boxes are at the post office 1/4 mile from my house in the same small town, so unless I wanted to get a P.O. 30 miles away from me, it doesn't really matter. The simple fact is that, people don't need to be forced to see the content. Not everyone is so open to the subject matter and I don't need people dipping into my business, its that simple.

they do send covered mags.. the same way playboy does... this was a flyer in an envlope thats all it was... there was no nuidity

But it doesn't come in black sleeves. And, they never purge their address lists or update them, so some of us who have been independent contractors for years are receiving several of the same two sided post card mailers.....

My kid knows what I do. I didn't think the world had to know. I thought that was still MY choice whether or not I tell people what I do for a living.

The point is simple respect for their subscribers/customers. A simple fix would be to cover it up somehow, put it in an envelope etc., thats all, everyone would be happy. This isn't the first time this has happened either. Plane envelope = Nobody Bitching.

i totally agree they should come in black sleeves but at the same time i do feel like people should take certain precautions if they are so sensitive to this shit. Thats all.

Nothing to you , but plenty to other people..

regardless of whats right and decent and proper, if you coach a local boys hockey team , and a happily married man and word gets round a small community that you recieve gay material in your mail , you wont be coaching for long.. thats reality.. in a small town a post office box isnt any different than to your house. :2 cents:

I do have a PO Box, and yes its $38.50 a yr

My child also gets mail at the box, several times a week. So I should take away something from him that makes him happy and makes him feel like a responsible big boy (anyone who has had a child around 7 yrs of age knows what I'm talking about)

I do everything I can to keep my work from coming into his life. When I get home from work with him, I do no adult related work until after he is in bed, and even then I still close and lock the door to the room where I do my work.

Trust me, I know its up to me to protect my son from things, and I do the best I can. However, a little discretion on the part of a company is not too much to ask. After all, is their product not to serve and inform us, is it not our advertising dollars who pay their bills.

Common courtesy among people/business partners may be a strange and unknown topic to most of you, but its really not asking too much.

Yep, exactly.

Great points Ruth - maybe I was i little quick to tell people to opt out. I have seen this complaint before - not sure why the problem continues but I am looking into it.

:-)

yea i hear you. Its a thin line i guess. As i said i do agree they should be sleeved but shit happens. I guess its up to you as a parent to decide whether its more inportant to have your kid feel like a big boy (and i totally understand this from what ive seen from my nephew whos also 7) or risking the chance that he might see something he shouldnt.

shut the fuck up. go tell some lies about how many joins you do a day, about being a gracie jiujitsu blackbelt, and claim you're going to fight kimbo again, fucking idiot. :321GFY :321GFY

The response from AVN about this issue has been one of the all time worst responses to a problem I have ever seen.
All they have to do is say sorry..we fucked up, bad policy..and then actually change future mailings, but they choose to lay the blame off on the recipents of their unscolicited mailings????

Telling subscribers to their magazine to opt out if they dont want other types of mail from them???
I'm sure the advertisers will greatly appreciate AVN's efforts to destroy it's readership and distribution of the Ad's the advertisers paid good $ for...

If AVN had half a clue they would fire the idiot responding as a spokesperson for AVN.

Sorry about the first respsonse - I was under theimpression that the person posting did not want to recieve any mailings- I am talking to marketing about what they can do to be more discrete.

Everyone has a right to privacy.

Sorry but I don't buy this for a second, I bitched HARDCORE here last time you guys sent out a mailing with PUSSY CASH plastered all over the outside in plain sight for the Hollywood Florida show and by the sounds of it you haven't made any changes nor do you plan on it. Go back to doing what you do best, lining your pockets and not giving a shit about the community you operate in. In case that wasn't clear enough for you, I regard you the same as ambulance chasing lawyers.

You work in porn everyone knows you are gay.

What a bunch of crybabies. :2 cents:


If you can't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen. :thumbsup

If you coach a local boys hockey team , and a happily married man and word gets round a small community that you recieve gay material in your mail , you wont be coaching for long.. thats reality.. in a small town a post office box isnt any different than to your house. :2 cents:

So the solution is

A) convince the whole world to change their opinions

B) Move to california

C) cease relations with AVN

hmmmmm not a hard decision.

Do you have children ?

Simple... Be discreet, use fake names if you are ashamed of what you do. Why does AVN have your address? They don't have mine. It's a useless publication anyhow, xbiz is much better and its available free online. If you wan't to run around using your real name and associating it with porn, particularly gay porn, you gotta expect something stupid like this to happen eventually.

To answer your question, I don't have kids, if I did I would be even more discreet about what I do. I manage to make one of the better incomes here and I've never given my address to anybody or been to a show or been involved in anyway with the 'community'. If you want to be a big name and throw your name around, expect that some will hate on you, especially in small town USA. :2 cents:

Fucking ignorant morons. I live in Alabama where my house will get burned down now because of this shit. I don't give a flying fuck who around me knows what I do, except a select few who are ultra-religious - like my mail man, or my neighbors. And now they know. Congratulations - you just fucked up some decent relationships I had with these people. Fucking assholes.

good points on both sides imho although I am still not real thrilled about my GayAVN envelope I received.