6 Things That Weird Me Out About the Gay Porn Biz

I’ve been doing alot of reflecting about the gay porn biz lately both as a whole and my part in it. Here’s a few things that have been on my mind; they’re not necessarily in order of importance:

1. Prudes. At first glance you might think that the only prudes when it comes to gay porn is certain segments of consumers. Not so. Prudery is alive and well within the gay porn industry as well, on so many levels.

2. Hypocrisy. In a similar vein to prudes, it’s amazing the number of hypocrites there are in this industry. Not just this part of the industry though…You’d be amazed perhaps to know how many gay webmasters I run into who want say links at my gay links site or my gay dating tips site and yet they do not want to link back because the sites are too pornographic for them. Hmmm. Same thing goes when I try to buy advertising for those sites…

3. Vicious. It’s much more than being catty. The viciousness of some people seems to know no bounds, especially when bad things happen. It just gets a little wearing after awhile.

4. Lack of follow through. I try to follow through with my contacts, so it gets a little irksome when you ask for something and the person makes promises or says yeah, yeah we’ll get it done and then it never happens.

5. Lack of quality. Lets face it, some people in this biz are content to spew out crap and call it quality porn.

6. Treating people with disdain and treating them as their personal cash cow. Porn is a business but that shouldn’t mean that it’s the business of screwing the customer. How long is the “traffic” going to tollerate being treated like shit?

The porn industry in general needs to wake up and start re-evaluating how they conduct their business.

Having said all that…I love what I do. Being a webmaster/online publisher has given me a tremendous opportunity to a better way of life than I previously enjoyed.

And of course, thankfully, not everyone involved in the porn industry exhibit those six traits or peaves I’ve been reflecting on.