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justin169porn
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Boston, MA
102 Posts
6/03
Posted - Aug 21 2004 : 5:07PM
To Anyone Who Can Help--

I am rather curious to hear what kind of feedback I get from this post...especially people who work in the industry.

I was just sitting around today thinking how cool it would be to be producing my own porn! Now as I kept thinking about it...I think this is something I could do. I would not want to work for a no-name company of course.

Just a little background on myself. I currently work full-time in the Boston television market at a major TV station. I work in both the Newsroom as a PA who writes television script and edits for some very well known anchors and reports. I also work in the stations graphic design department with all the Adobe products. Creating TV still and animated graphics...along with having a background in print design. I am pretty good at design. I also have experience working in Sports and as a Producer at one of the top five newspapers in the country of course it is in Boston...so you can probably figure out which one. I have a lot more internship experience while I was in college with Advertising.

My education consists of a major in Advertising with a double minor in Marketing and Business Management. I graduated Magna Cum Laude with many academic awards from a very good school in the Boston area.


Anyone have any insight on what it takes to break into porn behind the scenes in a good paying position? I can not imagine itis as hard as getting an on air position at a TV station in the Boston, NY, DC or LA areas, but maybe I am mistaken.

Just thought I would ask. Kind of curious at what people who are in the industry on this board have to say. Feel free to email me.

Thanks in advance and looking forward to any responses,
-Justin

Topic Moved by - Bill on Aug 22 2004

scatman
Member

175 Posts
4/04
Posted - Aug 21 2004 : 6:21PM
I think your a bit overqualified. Can you score coke?
Jimmy Lifestyles
Member

187 Posts
8/04
Posted - Aug 21 2004 : 6:22PM
LMAO! good shit man.
Starlet
Deactivated User

51 Posts
8/04
Posted - Aug 21 2004 : 9:57PM
That pretty much sums it up, right there.

Most people in the industry have had no formal training. They just happened to stumble across someone who brought them in. You learn on the job. It's not brain surgery.

justin169porn
Member

Boston, MA
102 Posts
6/03
Posted - Aug 21 2004 : 10:35PM
Hmmm. Just thought I would ask. Does not seem like it is a hard thing to do. Just need a few connections. I was just curious. Thank you. Anyone who is on this board that works in porn have anything to say? Thanks again.
 
justin169porn
Member

Boston, MA
102 Posts
6/03
Posted - Aug 21 2004 : 10:37PM
Scatman...I thought your answer was funny.
pornopunk
Senior Member

1343 Posts
2/04
Posted - Aug 21 2004 : 10:40PM
I don't think it's hard to do at all. The real problem is the bullshit you'll have to put up with getting started. It depends on who you talk to, but most people in the porn business won't give you much real help on how to get started. If you have lots of money and are willing to spend it, breaking into porn will be alot easier.

-PornoPunK

Starlet
Deactivated User

51 Posts
8/04
Posted - Aug 21 2004 : 10:54PM
Justin, I work in porn.

Your best bet is to
1, Move to L.A (SFV)
2. Make friends with people who work in the business (they are everywhere)
3. Pray that they will bring you on board

That said, most people in porn are sick and tired of it and wish they had 'real' jobs instead, not to mention pension plans and health care... It's not as glamorous as it seems.

Good luck!

justin169porn
Member

Boston, MA
102 Posts
6/03
Posted - Aug 21 2004 : 11:45PM
Well...I do know a few big name people working in porn, but they've basically told to keep up what I'm doing. What I'm doing now most people would die to have...especially in the market I'm in. Honestly...I've worked way to hard to get where I am now to give it up to work in an industry that could just chew me up and spit me out and not think twice about it. I think working in porn would hurt me if I wanted to get back into television...it wouldn't be an image they'd want. It's sad, but DEFINATELY TRUE. I was just really curious. I guess it's just a fascination for me. The girls are gorgeous, but then again...there are gorgeous girls everywhere.

I wish the porn industry could expand in the US outside the California area. Kind of sad that the industry big wigs can't find ways to bring it to the east coast like it is on the west coast. There are more people out here. I think there's the potential for a lot of money to be made if this would happen.

Just my two cents,
-Justin

Saki
At-Large

2087 Posts
11/99
Posted - Aug 22 2004 : 11:00AM
From a historical perspective, New York used to be one of the porn capitals of the world (along with San Francisco) back in the Golden Age of the 1970's. The main reason for the concentration of the adult industry in the San Fernando Valley is the friendlier legal climate that doesn't consider adult video production obscene or a form of prostitution. Plus, there's always a steady stream of new talent who'd much rather hang out in LA than in New England.

- Saki [faqs]

SexDriven75
Member

193 Posts
8/04
Posted - Aug 22 2004 : 6:40PM
Good point, I don't know why more don't question the status quo. I'd like to see the entertainment industry in general expand it's base's elsewhere, there's no reason it all has to be in one place.
I'd love to see the porn industry bust into the conservative mid-west (other than merely Chicago)! If anything things have become more centralized over the years. Playboy used to be headquartered in Chicago afterall. The adult internet website industry seems to be scattered throughout the US, but it's tolerated only when it's kept underground.



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